On the occasion of the International Day of May 18, at the Guba Heydar Aliyev Center, the exposition of the photos of the genocide taken by the Belarusian photographer Lev Dashkeyevich in 1918 was shown.
Visiting museums is a desire to seek beauty, truth and meaning in our lives. May 18 - International Museum Day
Icheri Sheher Museum Center
On December 22, 2018, the “Icheri Sheher” Museum Center was established as a structural unit of the “Icheri Sheher” State Historical-Architectural Reserve. The Maiden Tower, which dates from the 8th-7th centuries BC, the Shirvanshahs’ Palace Complex, which dates from the 12th-15th centuries, the Beylar Mosque, famous for its Sacred Treasures exposition, and the Siratagli religious-architectural museum are all part of the Icheri Sheher Museum Center. The Gala State Historical and Ethnographic Reserve Museum, which preserves ancient traditions, and the Baku House of Photography, which unites time and people, are part of the complex.
The newly established Museum Center, which combines museum expositions, introduces the world to Azerbaijan’s rich history and multifaceted culture. 54,000 exhibits are preserved in the Museum Center’s fund.
Icheri Sheher, along with the Maiden Tower and the Palace of Shirvanshahs, was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2000.
MUSEUM OF CARPETS
The first museum specimens were discovered in Crete in the sixteenth century BC, and in ancient Rome and Greece in the third century. Museums were first established in Azerbaijan in the 1920s. In Azerbaijan, there are 212 museums. The Azerbaijan National Carpet Museum, founded on March 13, 1967, is one of these museums. This is the world’s first carpet museum, and it houses the most extensive collection of Azerbaijani carpets.
The exhibit is already stored in the museum fund, which includes seven collections such as “Pile”, “Pileless” carpets, “Carpet products”, “Art metal”, “Ceramics, glass, wood, paper”, “Fabric, clothing, embroidery” and “Jewelry”.
The museum houses rare items from the Bronze and Antiquity periods, as well as the early Middle Ages. The majority of his collections date from the XVII-XX centuries.
In 2017, the International Documentation Committee (CIDOC) of the International Council of Museums awarded the Azerbaijan National Carpet Museum the “Best Practice” award, as well as the “Best Museum in Europe – 2018” competition for “application of innovations in museum work with the public.”
The next Memorandum of Understanding was signed with Baku State University.
The “Genocide Memorial Complex” in Guba, which aims to convey the truth about the genocide to the world, is constantly cooperating with higher education institutions, according to the new strategy of future propaganda and agitation. The next Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the Guba Genocide Memorial Complex and the Baku State University Faculty of History.
The memorandum calls for closer cooperation between the two institutions, including international and national symposiums, conferences, and similar events, scientific and cultural exchange, summer school organization, and joint propaganda work in the media and social networking platforms.
It should be noted that Baku State University has ten departments, 31 doctors of sciences, professors, 61 candidates of sciences, associate professors, 11 researchers, and 36 teaching assistants, and the Faculty of History has over 2,000 students.
It is the 99th anniversary of the birth of the great leader Heydar Aliyev, the founder and architect of independent Azerbaijan.
Genocides committed by Hamazasp in Guba district. (May 1-9)
In 1918, on the instructions of the head of the Baku soviet dashnak bolshevik Stepan Shaumyan, a group of 3000 dashnak Hamazasp and Armenians, sent to Guba district committed unprecedented genocides against the civilian population in order to suppress the national movement and establish for their planning government. Historical documents show that Hamazasp made a threatening appeal to the population of the city after the invasion of Guba, which consisted of about 20000 people and about 10000 houses. Hamazasp in the Ancient Guba Square, around the Jhuma Mosque, clearly states the purpose of his visit to Guba:
“I am a hero of the Armenian people and a defender of its interests. I did not come here to establish law and order, to establish the Soviet government. My aim is to destroy all muslims living in the area from the shores of the caspian sea to Shah mountain, to destroy your homeland to reveal to you what we did in Shamakhi”.
Witness statements and archival documents of the time show that Armenians beheaded the family of 14 people of Karbala Mammad Taghi oqhlu, 5 families of Mohammad Rasul oqlu in Guba, Bibikhanim, wife of Haji Dadashbala Gasim oghlu and his son Abdul Gasimi, burned them alive in Karbalai Abba. He tore his son and two daughters, Hokuma and Bustan, together with the child in his arms, and mashadi Ganbar, the son of mullah Mohammad Saleh, his wife and five infants.
Haji Ismail Orujov, a resident of Guba, wrote in his explanation that according to the cleric who buried the dead in the city, he himself believed that the bodies of 2800 people had been buried. During the events, more than 2153 houses were destroyed and burned, more than 24 mosques, 5 caravanserais, 152 warehouses, 166 haystacks, 68 stables, 312 shops, 17 mills, 4 workshops, 4 teahouses and 284 other buildings and historical and religious monuments were destroyed or burned. According to the stuff of 3 volumes and 451 pages of investigative materials collected by the Emergency Commission of Inquiry gangs of the Baku Soviet under the command of dashnak Hamazasp, consisting mainly of Armenians, killed more than 16000 Azerbaijan’s Turks in Guba district in 9 days was burned and destroyed 167 villages.
A Memorandum of Understanding was signed.
The Genocide Memorial Complex in Guba, which has been operating since 2013, is the only ideological center that promotes Armenian vandalism against the Turkish-Muslim population. The process of establishing cooperation in the international arena and within the country in order to convey the truth about the genocide to the world is being successfully continued, according to the complex’s new strategy for future propaganda and agitation. On May 5, 2022, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the Shamakhi branch of the Azerbaijan State Pedagogical University and the Genocide Memorial Complex as a continuation of this tradition. Priorities identified during the official meeting included the establishment of closer cooperation between the two institutions, the implementation of projects in the fields of science and culture, the organization of various exhibitions and excursions, and joint propaganda and advocacy work in the media and social networks.
It should be noted that the Shamakhi branch of the Azerbaijan State Pedagogical University, one of the country’s leading universities, is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, and has made significant contributions to the development
The official visit to the United States by the delegation led by Minister Anar Karimov continues.
Anar Karimov met with leading think tanks and scientists in the United States during his visit. Former US ambassadors to Azerbaijan also attended the meeting. Anar Karimov discussed the damage done to Azerbaijan’s cultural institutions during the Armenian occupation, as well as the fate of destroyed historical and religious monuments. He provided detailed information about the reconstruction and restoration work done in Karabakh following our historic victory, as well as statistical indicators. He also discussed the global campaign “Peace for Culture” (Peace4Culture). Scientists who praised the think tanks also proposed several plans for the restoration of Karabakh. The meeting continued with a discussion of a number of critical issues of mutual concern.
oday in history: The Azerbaijan Communist (b) Party was founded in Baku on February 11-12, 1920, and A. Mikoyan, an enemy of the Azerbaijani people, was appointed as its de facto leader.
The party launched an armed insurgency to depose the national government and establish Soviet Azerbaijan. Soviet Russia cleverly exploited Armenia’s hostility against Azerbaijan to include the Armenian uprisings in Ganjabasar and Karabakh, as well as the Armenian war against Azerbaijan, in this plan. At a time when almost the entire Azerbaijani army was fighting against Armenian rebels in Karabakh, the 11th Russian army, which defeated Denikin’s troops in April 1920, approached Azerbaijan’s northern borders and entered the country on the night of April 26-27, 1920.
Despite repeated submissions to the League of Nations and world policy-making states regarding Bolshevik Russia’s occupation of Azerbaijan, the Allies silently welcomed the Bolsheviks’ occupation of Azerbaijan.
On April 29, Azerbaijan’s Revolutionary Committee requested military assistance from Soviet Russia. However, on April 27, the 11th Russian army was within Azerbaijan’s borders. As a result, the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic collapses after 23 months of operation, and Azerbaijan is declared a Soviet Socialist Republic on April 28.
April 25, 1918 - Organization of the Council of People's Commissars of the Baku Soviet
The Bolsheviks, who captured Baku and the Baku province in March 1918, established the Baku Council of People’s Commissars on April 25, 1918 as a new Soviet body of power to temporarily strengthen their political power in Baku. The Baku City Duma, which had been operating until that time, headed by Fatali Khan Khoysky, was dissolved. In fact, S. Shaumyan, who was elected chairman of the “Armenian Soviet Government” Baku Council of People’s Comissars, consisting of strong nationalist Armenians and Russian Bolsheviks closely cooperating with them, as well as Foreign Affairs Commissioner, People’s Commissar for Internal Affairs P.A.Chaparidze, Justice Commissioner A.B. Karinyan, Transport Commissioner Markaryan , chairman of the emergency commission Ter-Gabrelyan, commissioner of state control A.S. Bogdanov, labor commissioner Y.D. Zevin were elected. The Azerbaijani commissioners were mainly entrusted with agricultural issues. Nariman Narimanov was the People’s Commissar for Urban Economy, while Mir Hasan Vezirov was for Land Affairs. Bütün köhnə hakimiyyət orqanları ləğv edərək yeniləri ilə əvəzlindı. A military tribunal, an Extraordinary Commission were established, banks, an oil industry, a workers’ and peasants’ militia, city, district and people’s courts were created, and the Caspian merchant fleet was nationalized.
However, on July 31, 1918, the Baku Council of People’s Comissars collapsed . Because it was a fictitious organization that had no national support since its inception, had a weak social base and served the colonial policy of Soviet Russia.
It is gratifying that, beginning in the first months of 2022, the staff of the "Genocide Memorial Complex" in Guba, in addition to participating in symposiums and conferences of international and republican significance, they have also published scientific articles in a number of republican journals.
