Miss Azerbaijan
| Motto | Confidently Beautiful |
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| Formation | 1996 |
| Type | Beauty pageant |
| Headquarters | Baku |
| Location | |
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Membership
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Miss Universe Miss Intercontinental Top Model of the World |
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Official language
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Azerbaijani |
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National Director
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Anelya Orduhanova |
| Website | Official website |
Miss Azerbaijan is a national Beauty pageant in Azerbaijan.
History
National beauty contest “Miss Azerbaijan” is held in the country since 1996. Participation in a beauty contest “Miss Azerbaijan” is a great school and a brilliant chance for any beautiful girl. Based on this experience, many of winners and finalists of “Miss Azerbaijan” participated in international competitions and performed at various prestigious catwalks, became television announcers and advertising “persons” of many known firms and companies, opened a modeling and photo-agencies, established women’s magazines, websites etc. That is the reason why such project as the National Beauty Contest “Miss Azerbaijan” is highly demanded in our country, - it teaches society to value not only talent, but also a woman’s beauty.
Each year, before the beginning of the next contest, there established an Organizing Committee which involves representatives of the community and well-known media persons who voluntarily provide organizational support for the contest. The organizing committee is also working with various Mass Media, photographers and photo studios, videographers, designers, freelancers, and the sponsors who provide their services to competition on mutually beneficial terms. 16 ladies are selected after casting and the qualifying round for the final selection. During the final round we invite an independent jury consisting of representatives of culture and arts, show business and media, and sponsors who evaluate the finalists’ performance by 10-point system. According to the point calculation results the main and sponsor nominations are distributed.
National Franchise
All the contests “Miss Azerbaijan” had been held by the license issued by the Ministry of Culture of Azerbaijan till 2006. After 2006, under the new rules, the Ministry canceled the issuance of licenses for cultural events, including the contests.
Since 2013, Azerbaijan selected the winner for Miss Universe. Instead, the winner of Miss Azerbaijan 2012 participated at the event.[1] The first time the country was participated in the pageant in Miss Universe 2013 on 9 November.[1] Aysel Manafova is the first Miss Universe Azerbaijan titleholder.
Nowadays Miss Azerbaijan becomes national titleholder for Miss Universe, Miss Intercontinental and Top Model of the World.
Titleholders
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- Declared as Winner
- Ended as runner-up
- Ended as one of the finalists or semifinalists
| Year | Miss Azerbaijan | City | Notes |
| 1996 | Narmina Zarbaliyeva[2] | Baku | Competed at the World's Best Model 1995 in Istanbul, Turkey. |
| 1997 | Gulsara Rzayeva | Baku | Did not compete |
| 1999 | Fatima Abbasguliyeva | Baku | Did not compete |
| 2000 | Valida Abasova | Baku | Did not compete |
| 2001 | Fatima Suleymanova | Baku | Did not compete |
| 2002 | Samira Rasulova | Baku | Did not compete |
| 2003 | Sabina Hashimova | Baku | Did not compete |
| 2004 | Olesya Sergeyeva | Baku | Competed at the Miss Intercontinental 2004 in Huhhot, China. |
| 2005 | Shovkat Gasimova | Baku | Did not compete |
| 2006 | Gunay Musayeva | Baku | Did not compete |
| 2010 | Gulnara Alimuradova[3] | Baku | Due to lack of sponsorship, withdrew at the Miss Universe 2010 in Las Vegas, U.S.A. |
| 2012 | Aysel Manafova | Baku | The first Miss Azerbaijan who competed at the Miss Universe 2013 in Moscow, Russia. She was appointed by Aras Agalarov, one of the main organizers of the pageant. |
| 2014 | Javidan Gurbanova | Baku | Competed at the Queen of the Universe 2015 in Spain as the 3rd Runner-up and Miss Photogenic Award Champion. |
| 2015 | Natalia Sokolovskaya | Baku | |
| 2016 | TBA | TBA | TBA |
