Hamlet Isakhanli

Composer Sardar Farajov created "Elegy" in memory of Nailekhanım. It was performed for the first time at Uzeyir Hajibeyli XIII International Music Festival, Baku on 22 September 2021. On November 12, 2021, the first presentation of the Nailakhanim Scholarship, established by the Nailakhanim Foundation, took place in the Marble Hall of Khazar University. The book "Nailakhanim in Memories" edited by Hamlet Isaxanli is published by Khazar University Publishing House. The book reflects people's memories about Nailakhanim.

As of January 16, 2009, the school gained the status of an IBO school and offers the IB Diploma Program to its students in the last two years of high school.

Dunya School, established by Hamlet Isakhanli in 1998 and affiliated with Khazar University, providing the preschool, primary, secondary, and high school levels with bilingual education in Azerbaijani and English.

Khazar University (then called Azerbaijan University of the English Language) was established on March 18, 1991. The university was the first private university established in Azerbaijan and one of the first officially established in the post-Soviet era

Isakhanli was interested in educational organizations in the West. In the late 1980s, Isakhanli tried to explain the educational crisis in the Soviet and Azerbaijani and tried to find solutions which he published in Azerbaijani and Russian newspapers and on the radio and TV.

From 1973 to 1983, he worked as professor at Azerbaijan State Institute of Oil and Chemistry (currently Azerbaijan State Oil Academy) and chaired the department of mathematics in the Baku campus of the Leningrad Institute of Economics and Finance.

Isakhanli finished high school with a gold medal and was admitted to the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Azerbaijan State University in 1965. He graduated from BSU in 1970 with honors. In the same year, he was admitted back to the postgraduate research course of the institute, and then sent to Lomonosov Moscow State University for his graduate education and research. In 1973, he received a Ph.D. degree in Physical-Mathematical sciences.

Hamlet Abdulla oglu Isayev (Azerbaijani: Hamlet Abdulla oğlu İsayev, IPA: [hɑmˈlet ɑbdulˈlɑ oɣˈlu iˈsɑjef]; born March 1, 1948) is an Azerbaijani mathematician, historian of science and culture, writer, founder of Khazar University who served as University president from April 1991 to September 2010. He is currently the Chairman of the Board of Directors and Trustees, founder of Dunya School, and founder of a publishing house (all in Baku, capital of Azerbaijan) as well as a translator of poetry, lecturer, and editor. He is a founding member of the Eurasian Academy.

Nailekhanim Isayeva (Azerbaijani: Nailə İsayeva; 29 May 1947 – 3 April 2021) born Nailə Asgarli was an Azerbaijani pedagogue-organizer and songwriter born in Quba. She was co-founder of Khazar University and Dunya School, together with her husband Hamlet Isakhanli. She was a teacher, pedagogue, composer, manager, and founding director of Dünya School until 2010. In 2011 she became chair-person of the Dunya School`s board, and advisor in Humanitarian and Organisational Affairs to the Board of Directors and Trustees of Khazar University. Isayeva died in Baku on 3 April 2021, aged 73, from cancer. Khazar University Board of Directors and Trustees took steps to perpetuate Ms. Naila's memory:

Hamlet Isakhanli is a member of the Hajibayramli clan. His grandfather was guerilla Isakhan Hajibayramli (1897–1930), who organized an armed rebellion against the Soviets in the late 1920s to 1930, in the territories of Georgia and Armenia. His 100-year anniversary was celebrated in both Azerbaijan and Georgia.