Salimova Qadri Ismail oglu-Ulker. Winner of the President of the Russian Federation in the field of Education. The prize is awarded Salimova Kadriye – Ulker Ismail oglu, doctor of pedagogical sciences, professor, Corresponding Member of Russian Academy of Education, Chief Researcher, Institute of Education theory and pedagogy of the Russian Academy of Education – the creation cycle of works "The history of the world of pedagogy as the factor of improvement of teacher education. Kadri khanum man amazing destiny.
She was the pilots and parachutists. Back in school, mastered Morse code and learn the German language, with the beginning of the Great Patriotic War in 17 years voluntarily went to the front and quickly mastered a profession coder. Front of the road it has come to lie through Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Austria. 13 medals and the Order of the Patriotic War of the second degree within four years of war has been awarded Kadri Salimova. "I want to home in Baku! I want to see my mother I am now very much needed there, in his homeland ", he replied the young officer's Team 3 rd Ukrainian Front, Marshal Tolbukhin a proposal to start a career professional scout.
In 1950 she graduated from the Philosophical Faculty of Azerbaijan State University, after graduating in 1953, graduate of Moscow State University Philosophy Department received a doctorate in philosophy, and in 1971, doctorate in pedagogy.
From 1953 to the present day working at the Institute of Educational Theory and Pedagogy of the Russian Academy of Education researcher, scientific secretary, head of laboratory, chief scientific officer. Kadri Salimova – member central committee of the international organization of historians of pedagogy, the head of the international working group.
Under her guidance, issued in March, with no analogue in world literature, international textbook on the history of education in which the example of 18 countries, including Azerbaijan, showed patterns of development of schools and pedagogy in these countries since ancient times to the present time. These textbooks have been translated into English, Chinese, Japanese.
In addition Kadri Khanum author of 18 monographs, over one hundred articles published in the near and far abroad.
Fluent in five languages (Azerbaijani, Russian, Turkish, English, German) and a leading expert in the world, Kadri Khanum has repeatedly lectured at major universities around the world – the U.S., Britain, Germany, Japan, Turkey, the Netherlands and Ireland. A well-known specialist in the field of pedagogy, Professor Willem Frichow from the University of Amsterdam wrote in his review: "Your work back to Russia as a center of world science."