dance culture and founded the Iraqi National Folklore Group. She retired from ballet in the 1950s, but remained an instructor at the School of Choreography until the late 1990s. She married Afrasiyab Badalbeyli in 1931, however the marriage did not last very long. Trivia Gamar Almaszadeh's younger sister Adila Almaszadeh also took ballet lessons and went off to St. Petersburg to study professional ballet. However the asperity of the northern climate affected Adila's health (as she was extremely sensitive to climate change) leading to her death of tuberculosis. In the 1930s, a religious fanatic attempted to assassinate Gamar Almaszadeh on her way out of the theatre, but the bullet hit the spike heel of her shoe leaving Gamar unharmed. See also *List of People's Artists of the Azerbaijan SSR References External links 1915 births 2006 deaths Dancers from Baku People's Artists of the Azerbaijan SSR People's Artists of the USSR Stalin Prize winners Recipients of the Order of Friendship of Peoples Recipients of the Order of Lenin Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Recipients of the Shohrat Order Ballet teachers Azerbaijani ballerinas Soviet Azerbaijani people Burials at Alley of Honor