At the meeting of the Dissertational Council of the Institute of Geography named after acad. H. Aliyev of ANAS, under the chairmanship of academician Ramiz Mammadov, Gulnar Nuru gizy Hajiyeva defended the thesis for the degree of PhD, on the specialty “Geoecology” 2508.01 on the topic “Study of the eco-geographic features of intensively developed mountain geosystems (on the example of the northeastern slope of the Greater Caucasus)”.

By secret ballot, a decision was taken to petition the Higher Attestation Commission under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan to award the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in geography to Gulnar Hajiyeva.