country_of_citizenship latif safarov
___MASK85___ , officially the Republic of ___MASK85___ ( Turkish : ), is a transcontinental country in Eurasia , mainly in Anatolia in Western Asia , with a smaller portion on the Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe . ___MASK85___ is a democratic , secular , unitary , parliamentary republic with a diverse cultural heritage . ___MASK85___ is bordered by eight countries : ___MASK74___ to the west ; Bulgaria to the northwest ; Georgia to the northeast ; Armenia , the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhchivan and Iran to the east ; and ___MASK5___ and Syria to the south . The Aegean Sea is to the west , the Black Sea to the north , and the Mediterranean Sea to the south . The Bosphorus , the Sea of Marmara , and the Dardanelles , which together form the Turkish Straits , divide Thrace and Anatolia ; they also separate Europe and Asia . ___MASK85___ ' s location has given it geopolitical and strategic importance throughout history . ___MASK56___ (, also , ; ' ), also known as Persia , officially the Islamic Republic of ___MASK56___ (' ), is a sovereign state in Western Asia . It is bordered to the northwest by Armenia , the " de facto " Nagorno - Karabakh Republic , and ___MASK35___ ; to the north by the Caspian Sea ; to the northeast by Turkmenistan ; to the east by Afghanistan and Pakistan ; to the south by the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of ___MASK53___ ; and to the west by Turkey and ___MASK5___ . Comprising a land area of , it is the second - largest country in the Middle East and the 18th - largest in the world . With 82 . 8 million inhabitants , ___MASK56___ is the world ' s 17th - most - populous country . It is the only country with both a Caspian Sea and an Indian Ocean coastline . The country ' s central location in Eurasia and Western Asia , and its proximity to the Strait of Hormuz , make it of great geostrategic importance . Tehran is the country ' s capital and largest city , as well as its leading economic center . The Nagorno - Karabakh War , referred to as the Artsakh Liberation War (" Artsakhyan azatamart ") by ___MASK24___ , was an ethnic conflict that took place in the late 1980s to May 1994 , in the enclave of Nagorno - Karabakh in southwestern ___MASK35___ , between the majority ethnic ___MASK24___ of Nagorno - Karabakh backed by the Republic of Armenia , and the Republic of ___MASK35___ . As the war progressed , Armenia and ___MASK35___ , both former Soviet Republics , entangled themselves in a protracted , undeclared war in the mountainous heights of Karabakh as ___MASK35___ attempted to curb the secessionist movement in Nagorno - Karabakh . The enclave ' s parliament had voted in favor of uniting itself with Armenia and a referendum , boycotted by the Azerbaijani population of Nagorno - Karabakh , was held , whereby most of the voters voted in favor of independence . The demand to unify with Armenia , which began anew in 1988 , began in a relatively peaceful manner ; however , in the following months , as the ___MASK72___ ' s disintegration neared , it gradually grew into an increasingly violent conflict between ethnic ___MASK24___ and ethnic Azerbaijanis , resulting in claims of ethnic cleansing by both sides . The Caspian Sea is the largest enclosed inland body of water on ___MASK46___ by area , variously classed as the world ' s largest lake or a full - fledged sea . It is in an endorheic basin ( it has no outflows ) located between Europe and Asia . It is bound by ___MASK58___ to the northeast , Russia to the northwest , Azerbaijan to the west , Iran to the south , and Turkmenistan to the southeast . Shusha , or Shushi , is a city in the disputed region of Nagorno - Karabakh in the South Caucasus . It has been under the control of the self - proclaimed Nagorno - Karabakh Republic since its capture in 1992 during the Nagorno - Karabakh War . However , it is a " de jure " part of the Republic of ___MASK35___ , with the status of an administrative division of the surrounding Shusha Rayon . Situated at an altitude of 1 , 400  1 , 800 metres ( 4 , 600  5 , 900 ft ) in the picturesque Karabakh mountains , Shusha was a popular mountain recreation resort in the Soviet era . ___MASK95___ ( from the  Rus '), also officially known as the Russian Federation , is a country in Eurasia . At , ___MASK95___ is the largest country in the world by surface area , covering more than one - eighth of the ___MASK46___ ' s inhabited land area , and the ninth most populous , with over 140 million people at the end of March 2016 . The European western part of the country is much more populated and urbanised than the eastern , about 77 % of the population live in European ___MASK95___ . ___MASK95___ ' s capital Moscow is one of the largest cities in the world , other major urban centers include Saint Petersburg , Novosibirsk , Yekaterinburg , Nizhny Novgorod and Samara . Latif Bashir oglu Safarov ( Azerbaijani : Ltif Sfrov ) ( 30 September 1920 , Shusha -- 9 December 1963 , Baku ) was an Azerbaijani actor and movie director . Safarov began his career in acting at a very young age . He starred in a number of children ' s movies released in 1927 -- 1931 ( Sevil , Latif , etc . ) . In 1939 , he graduated from the Ganja School of Pedagogy . For the next two years was continued acting along as serving as an assistant director at the Baku Movie Studio ( renamed to Azerbaijanfilm in 1960 ) . In 1950 , he graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography , receiving B . A . in Film Directing . The 1955 film Bakhtiyar ( starring Rashid Behbudov ) directed by Safarov was his most significant project . It was followed by two other well - known films , Under the Broiling Sun ( 1957 ) and Leyli and Majnun ( 1962 ) . In 1958 , Safarov was elected head of the Azerbaijani Union of Cinematographers . He was granted the emeritous title of the Honorary Art Worker of ___MASK35___ in 1960 . In 1955 , he married singer Shovkat Alakbarova . Together they had two children . In 1963 , Safarov committed suicide by shooting himself with a hunting rifle . At that time , he was working on his film project The Island of Miracles . ___MASK47___ ( tr . " Hayastan "), officially the Republic of ___MASK47___ ( tr . " Hayastani Hanrapetut  yun "), is a sovereign state in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia . Located in Western Asia on the " Armenian Highlands ", it is bordered by ___MASK85___ to the west , Russia and Georgia to the north and Azerbaijan to the east , and Iran and Azerbaijan ' s exclave of Nakhchivan to the south . ___MASK35___ , officially the Republic of ___MASK35___ , is a country in the South Caucasus region , situated at the crossroads of Southwest Asia and Southeastern Europe . It is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east , Russia to the north , Georgia to the northwest , Armenia to the west and Iran to the south . The exclave of Nakhchivan is bounded by Armenia to the north and east , Iran to the south and west , while having an 8 km border with ___MASK85___ in the north west . Nagorno - Karabakh , officially the Nagorno - Karabakh Republic ( NKR ; " Lernayin Gharabaghi Hanrapetut ' yun "), Artsakh Republic or Republic of Artsakh (" Arts ' akhi Hanrapetut ' yun "), is an unrecognised republic in the South Caucasus . The region is considered by the UN to be part of ___MASK35___ , but is under the control of ethnic Armenian separatists . The NKR controls most of the territory of the former Nagorno - Karabakh Autonomous Oblast and some of the surrounding area , giving it a border with Armenia to the west , Iran to the south , and the uncontested territory of ___MASK35___ to the north and east . Baku is the capital and largest city of ___MASK35___ , as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region . Baku is located below sea level , which makes it the lowest lying national capital in the world and also the largest city in the world located below sea level . It is located on the southern shore of the Absheron Peninsula , alongside the Bay of Baku . At the beginning of 2009 , Baku ' s urban population was estimated at just over two million people . Officially , about 25 percent of all inhabitants of the country live in Baku ' s metropolitan area . Mean sea level ( MSL ) ( abbreviated simply sea level ) is an average level of the surface of one or more of ___MASK46___ ' s oceans from which heights such as elevations may be measured . MSL is a type of vertical datuma standardised geodetic reference pointthat is used , for example , as a chart datum in cartography and marine navigation , or , in aviation , as the standard sea level at which atmospheric pressure is measured in order to calibrate altitude and , consequently , aircraft flight levels . A common and relatively straightforward mean sea - level standard is the midpoint between a mean low and mean high tide at a particular location . The Absheron Peninsula is a peninsula in ___MASK35___ . It is host to Baku , the biggest and the most populous city of the country , and also the Baku metropolitan area , with its satellite cities Sumqayit and Khyrdalan .