Farrukh Gayibov Farrukh - agha Mammad Kerim - agha oglu Gayibov ( October 2 , 1891 — September 12 , 1916 ) – was a Russia n pilot of Azerbaijan i ancestry , and participant in World War I . He is considered to be the first Azerbaijani pilot . Childhood and youth . Farrukh ’ s father , Mammad Kerim agha , was as cadet in the 4th Muslim ( Azerbaijanis ) Life Guards of the Caucasian squadron of the Emperors own convoy , in the 1870s . After the completion of his military service , he was transferred to be a warrant officer of a militia . In subsequent years , Mammad Kerim agha worked as head of the court in Kazakhsky Uyezd of the Elisabethpol Governorate , a police officer at the Dzhevanshirsky Uyezd of Elisabethpol Governorate . On August 30 , 1894 , Mammad Kerim agha was awarded the Third Class Order of Saint Stanislaus for exceptional military service . His father died before his birth . Farrukh agha Gayibov was born on October 2 , 1891 , in the Girag Salahly village of Kazakhsky Uyezd . He was raised by his uncle on his father ’ s side , the prominent academic and public figure Samad agha Gayibov . Farukh agha studied five years at the Russian - Azerbaijan school in his native village , and then he continued his education at Tbilisi Cadet Corps , following Ali - Agha Shikhlinski ’ s advice . After his graduation on June 16 , 1910 , with honors , he entered Konstantinovskiy Artillery School . He was distinguished for being observant , having courage , and skill with firing guns . There Farrukh agha was awarded a golden watch of the Swiss company “ Pavel Bure ” . Graduating from Artillery School , he was commissioned a second lieutenant and was transferred to the second artillery battalion of the 39th artillery brigade of the 1st Caucasian Army Corps of Jelaus tract , where he was assigned as junior officer of the 4th battery . Participation in World War I . Farrukh agha took part in the Caucasus Campaign of World Was I . On August 31 , 1915 , he was promoted to first lieutenant . On February 3 , 1916 , Gayibov was sent to the Western Front and attached to the squadron of airships . On May 21 , he was assigned as artillery officer of ” Ilya Muromets № 16 ” airship , which had been built by I . I . Sikorsky in Saint Petersburg , a Russo - Balt factory . On the eve of the war , Russia had the largest air fleet among the belligerents : 244 airplanes in 39 squadrons . By the beginning of the hostilities , there were 221 pilots , 170 officers , 35 lower rank officers and 16 volunteers in the Russian air fleet . The logistics of the begging of the war proved to be inefficient with petrol , castor oil , spares , tents and other aviation supplies . Airplanes routinely wrecked in the dry field circumstances , especially with bad weather , when there was scarcity of tents and moveable hangars , usage of areas of little avail for airdrome s . After the first months of the war , many squadrons had to be taken back to home to be supplied with new equipment and retrained . Gayibov was in combat fights on board the ” Ilya Muromets № 16 ” airship , and raided enemy positions . Last Flight . On September 12 , 1916 , a raid was conducted under the command of colonel Brant ’ s General Staff , with an air squadron of two airplanes including the “ Ilya Muromets , ” and 13 instruments . The aim of the raid was Borun , 12 verst s from the enemy front line , and a nearest district , where , according to reports , the staff of a German division was based , at the junction of a narrow gauge railway , together with artillery and quartermaster ’ s storehouses and airdrome . Farrukh ' s squadron penetrated into Krevo and dropped 100 pound bombs , forcing the enemy to retreat . Six days later , on September 18 , 1916 , The Petrogradskiye Izvestiya newspaper wrote : “ General headquarters report that our airplanes invaded the enemy ’ s rear in the Western front in Borun - Krevo district . Various posts were exploded by accurate bomb attacks , storehouses of the enemy were set on fire . Transportation facilities , railway stations and automobiles were also destroyed . Farrukh agha Gayibov and his team entered the battle with the enemy and destroyed four German airplanes . After destroying two Albatros airplanes , they fell into enemy ’ s territory and perished . ” Awards . On November 8 , 1915 , Farrukh agha Gaibov was awarded the Third Class Order of Saint Stanislaus with swords and bow , and on December 14 , the Fourth Class Order of St . Anna with the “ For Bravery ” legend on it . In 1916 , he was awarded the Second Class Order of Saint Stanislaus with swords . On January 26 , 1917 , F . Gayibov was awarded the Second Class Order of St . Anna with swords ( posthumously ) . On March 14 he was awarded the Third Class Order of St . Anna . On March 25 , as a lieutenant of 39th artillery brigade who died in air battle with his enemy , Farrukh agha Gayibov was posthumously awarded the Fourth Class Order of St . George . Memory of the hero . By tradition of pilots , a note had been thrown down from a German airplane and it is reported that Germans buried the crew of the airplane with military honours . Recently , the cemetery of the fallen airplane crew was found in a German cemetery in Borun village . Apparently , Russian pilots were reburied in this cemetery in the 1930s , when the Polish government provided German military burials , with the participation Germans . These words were written on gravestone cross in Polish : « 4 NIEZNANYCH ROS . LOTN . 25 . 16 » , which means : “ 4 unknown Russian pilots were buried 25 . 16 ” . The date was written according to the European calendar . The month of burial was missing in the inscription , but it wasn ’ t written on other gravestone crosses , either . There lay the heroes and pilots : • Lieutenant Maksheev Dmitri Dmitriyevich ; • Lieutenant Rakhlin Mitrofan Alekseyevich ; • Lieutenant Gayibov Farrukh ; • Lieutenant Karpov Oleg Sergryevich . In 1971 , Pavel Kutakhov , the Chief Aviation Marshall , was elected as deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union from the Gazakh - Tovuz electoral district . After archival cross - referencing and adjustments , Pavel Kutakhov sent the hero to his motherland . He also arranged for the erection of a monument to the Mig - 15 fighter , with a memorial plaque which read : “ In memory of the first Azerbaijani pilot Farrukh agha Gayibov ” . Later , the inscription on the plaque was changed to : “ In memory of those killed in the Great Patriotic War ” .