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3 unusual facts about Azerbaijani


Alibala Hajizade

Alibala Hajizade (born 28 August 1935) is an Azerbaijani writer.

Fuad Salayev

Fuad Salayev is an Azerbaijani sculptor.

Sayavush Aslan

Sayavush Aslan (September 5, 1935 – June 27, 2013) Azerbaijani prominent cinema and theatrical actor, rewarded with Sheref Order and People’s artist of Azerbaijan Republic.


2013 Biryulyovo riots

On 15 October, Orkhan Zeynalov, an Azerbaijani citizen, was arrested as a suspect for killing Egor Shcherbakov in Kolomna, not far from Moscow.

26 Baku Commissars

There were many different nationalities among them: Greek, Latvian, Jewish, Russian, Georgian, Armenian and Azerbaijani.

Agalarov

Aras Agalarov (born 1955), Azerbaijani-born Russian businessman

Akif Rustamov

He was the captain of Azerbaijani mountaineers, who in 2003 climbed to the nameless peak 4700 metres high on Tian Shan, which was later on named “Azerbaijan Republic.”

Armenia–Azerbaijan relations

In October 2013, Zakir Hasanov was appointed as Azerbaijani Defence Minister despite controversy.

Artush and Zaur

The novel begins with an Azerbaijani journalist and non-governmental organisation activist Zaur Jalilov leaving his native city of Baku, Azerbaijan, for a conference in Tbilisi, the capital of neighbouring Georgia.

Aslanov

Hazi Aslanov (1910-1945), Azerbaijani Major-General of the Soviet armoured troops during World War II

Ayn

Ghayn (Ғ,ғ), a letter used in the Kazakh, Uzbek, and Azerbaijani alphabets

Azerbaijan America Alliance

Congressmen Bill Shuster (R-PA) and Dan Boren (D-OK) serve as the co-Chairs of the Caucus and are exceptionally supportive of the Azerbaijani community in America.

Azerbaijan International Mineral Resources Operating Company

According to Asia Times Online, the Azerbaijani government gave AIMROC the rights to develop the Chovdar gold field and five other sites in Azerbaijan.

Azerbaijani population

a space was carved out to develop Azerbaijani culture, Azerbaijani language, Azerbaijani art, Azerbaijani literature, Azerbaijani folklore, Azerbaijani Music, Azerbaijani dances, Azerbaijani Traditional dress, Azerbaijani cuisine and Azerbaijani identity.

Baku Academy of Music

In 1920, Azerbaijani composer Uzeyir Hajibeyov began a movement aimed at propagating classical music among the people.

Baku Museum of Modern Art

There are also non-Azerbaijani modern masterworks by Salvador Dalí, Pablo Picasso, and Marc Chagall from private collectors.

Battle of Kalbajar

Four Azerbaijani MI-8 helicopters ferrying refugees and wounded out of the conflict zone crashed, the last of which was hit by Armenian forces.

Buzluq

Almost all these villages are now populated by Azerbaijani refugees displaced from Vardenis, Krasnoselsk and other regions of Armenia in 1988.

Capture of Garadaghly

According to Markar Melkonian, the fighters from Arabo and Aramo units gathered thirty-eight Azerbaijani captives, including several women and other noncombatants, in a ditch on the outskirts of the village.

Chovgan

In 1979, a documentary called “Chovgan game” was shot by an Azerbaijani film studio named after Jafar Jabbarly, where rules of the game and also its history from the times immemorial up to nowadays were reflected in.

Derricks

Work at Oil Derricks (Azerbaijani: Neft buruqlarında iş), a 1907 Azerbaijani film directed by Vasili Amaşukeli

Education in Azerbaijan

During the Soviet period, the Azerbaijani education system was based on the standard model imposed by Moscow, which featured state control of all education institutions and heavy doses of Marxist-Leninist ideology at all levels.

Elman Mammadov

In 2006, Mammadov along with Nizami Bahmanov and Havva Mammadova formally founded the Azerbaijani Community of Nagorno-Karabakh Social Union in exile, representing the Azerbaijani community of Nagorno-Karabakh in negotiation talks.

Əmircan, Baku

Sattar Bahlulzade — painter, People's Painter of Azerbaijan SSR (1964), is the founder of contemporary Azerbaijani landscape painting.

Farid Alakbarli

In 2011-2013, he was the first Azerbaijani scholar who worked during long time in the Vatican Secret Archives and in Vatican Apostolic Library, where valuable medieval manuscripts related to Azerbaijan were discovered .

Farida Mammadova

In her research, she is known to be a disciple of the late Azerbaijani historian and the former vice-president of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences Ziya Bunyadov.

Glen Velez

Among the many instruments Velez favors in his work are the Irish bodhrán, the Brazilian pandeiro, the Arabic riq, the North African bendir, and the Azerbaijani ghaval.

Hamid Arasly

He was the author on works focused on the relation between Azerbaijani literature with Persian, Turkish, Uzbek and Turkmen literature.

Kur River

The Kura River in Georgia and Azerbaijan (Georgian: მტკვარი - Mtkvari, Azerbaijani: Kür)

Kvaratskhelia

Badri Kvaratskhelia (born 1965), Georgian-born Azerbaijani footballer

Mammadrafi Mammadov

Within the next few months, Grachev as well as Anatoly Kornukov travelled to Azerbaijan to persuade Azerbaijani authorities to allow Russian military presence in Azerbaijan but were denied the requests.

March Days

On March 27, 1918, fifty former Savage Division servicemen arrived in Baku on board of this steamship, to attend the funeral of their colleague Mamed Tagiyev, son of a famous Azerbaijani oil magnate and philanthropist Haji Zeynalabdin Taghiyev.

Masud ibn Davud

According to Azerbaijani historian Sara Ashurbeyli, Masud ibn Davud was probably the father of the architect of the Mardakan Round Tower (not to be confused with Mardakan Castle).

Mikayil Abdullayev

Among portraits of Azerbaijani people, there are those of Uzeyir Hajibeyov, Samad Vurgun, Mirza Fatali Akhundov and Farhad Badalbeyli.

Mirza Khazar

In October 1985, he was invited to Washington, D.C. to be editor-in-chief of the Azerbaijani Service of Radio Voice of America.

Music of Azerbaijan

They have since placed 2nd in the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest, with the song "Hold Me" Westernised Azerbaijani pop includes Emin Agalarov, the son in law of president Ilham Aliyev.

National Art Museum of Azerbaijan

Among Azerbaijani artists represented are painters Mir Mohsun Navvab, Bahruz Kangarli, Tair Salakhov, Azim Azimzade, Salam Salamzade, Vidadi Narimanbekov, Mikail Abdullayev, Togrul Narimanbekov and sculptor Omar Eldarov.

Safarov

Latif Safarov (1920–1963), Azerbaijani actor and movie director

Şəmkir

From the first quarter of the 16th century till the beginning of the 19th century Shamkir was governed by hereditary rulers of Azerbaijani (Qizilbash) tribe called Shamsaddinli-Zulgadar.

Shamsi Badalbeyli

He belongs to the famous dynasty of Azerbaijani artists, along with his uncle Ahmed Agdamski, older brother Afrasiyab Badalbeyli and son Farhad Badalbeyli.

Sonqori dialect

Sonqori, also known as Sonqori Turkic, is an Iranian dialect of Azerbaijani spoken alongside Kurdish in Sonqor (Sunqur), east of Kermānšāh, in a large valley separated from the rest of Kurdistan.

South Stream

Russian President (then First Deputy Prime Minister) Dmitry Medvedev and former Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány have stated that there is no contradiction between South Stream and the Nabucco pipeline project, designated to bring Caspian (Azerbaijani) gas to Southern and Central Europe via Turkey.

Tadeusz Swietochowski

A Borderland in Transition, New York, Columbia University Press, 1995 (Translated into Azerbaijani by Khazar University Press)

Teymur Bayramalibeyov

This was the theatre where Huseyn Arablinski revealed his talent in 1905 before going on to become a renowned Azerbaijani actor.

Teymur Elchin

Teymur Elchin authored the lyrics of many well-known songs, and worked with many famous Azerbaijani composers, including Fikret Amirov, Tofig Guliyev, Rauf Hajiyev.

Tofig Gasimov

He was elected member of the Investigation Committee of Azerbaijani Supreme Soviet during the extraordinary session of the parliament on January 22, 1990 to investigate Black January massacre of January 20, 1990.

Tsvetana Paskaleva

Shortly after, she visited Nagorno Karabakh region of Azerbaijan and made a film on the deportations of Armenian residents of Getashen, Martunashen and Shaumyan by Azerbaijani interior forces backed by the regular Soviet Army units.

U with diaeresis

U with diaeresis (Latin) (Ü, ü) - an Estonian, Romani, Hungarian, Turkish, Azerbaijani, Turkmen letter

UEFA Euro 2020 bids

The Azerbaijani-Georgian coalition was doubted by some due to Azerbaijan's preference for a successful Baku bid for the 2020 Summer Olympics.

United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012

The next day Humperdinck attended a lavish party as the guest of honour hosted by Azerbaijani Singer Emin Agalarov at a luxury resort just outside of Baku.


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