Elmira Shahtakhtinskaya (; 25 October 1930 – 13 October 1996) was a painter, Honored Art Worker of the Azerbaijan SSR, and the People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR.
Biography
Elmira Shahtakhtinskaya was born on 25 October 1930 in Baku. Her first education was in Baku. Then she graduated from Painting School named after Azim Azimzade in 1950. Later she studied at Surikov Moscow Art Institute in 1951–1956. Her thesis was the poster "40 years of October". She returned to Azerbaijan, lived and worked in Baku.
Elmira Shahtakhtinskaya achieved a success while working in the portrait genre. Among the famous portrait works of the artist the art figures are more remarkable as "Muslim Magomayev", "Huseyn Javid", "Arif Malikov", "Fikret Amirov", "Uzeyir Hajibeyov", "Sattar Bahlulzade" and others.
In 1963, she was awarded the title of Honored Art Worker of the Azerbaijan SSR and in 1977, she was awarded the title of People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR.
