Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Leyla Mahad qizi Vakilova (27 January 1927, Baku 21 February 1999, Baku) was an Azerbaijani ballerina and ballet instructor. Leyla Vakilova was born in Baku and took ballet lessons at the Baku School of Choreography from prominent Azerbaijani ballerina Gamar Almaszadeh. In 1945, she left for Moscow to gain experience in the field of ballet at the Moscow State Academy of Choreography. After returning to Baku in 1946, she made her first ballet performance as Tao Khoa in The Red Poppy by Reinhold Glière at the Azerbaijan State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre where she worked for the next 30 years.