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Nigar Huseyn Afandi gizi Shikhlinskaya née Gayibova (Azerbaijani: Nigar Hüseyn Əfəndi qızı Şıxlinskaya October 10 1871 or March 21 1878 Tbilisi–August 15 1931 Baku) was the first Azerbaijani nurse. She was fluent in several languages including Russian and French and served on the Western Front of World War I where she opened the Red Cross hospital.On August 1 1914 her appeal to women was published in the Russkiy Invalid (Russian Disabled Person) newspaper.

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