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Facts of the genocide committed against Azerbaijanis in 1918

• 36 volumes of documents collected by the Extraordinary Investigation Commission, which was established in 1918 (which included lawyers of various nationalities);
• 102 photos of the genocide brought to Azerbaijan in 2011 from the French archives;
• Statements to the press and witnesses of the period;
• Discovery of a mass grave in 2007 in the city of Guba related to the 1918 genocide.
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Murtuza Akhundzade

Murtuza Akhundzade
He was born in 1877 in Guba district in a merchant family. He was one of the prominent intellectuals in Guba. Therefore, when the Republic of Azerbaijan was established in 1918, the people of Guba considered him worthy of parliamentary membership. Murtuza Bey joined the Musavat faction and was one of the 96 members of parliament. He was 41 years old at the time. After the Republican Parliament handed over the government to the Bolsheviks under certain conditions on April 28, 1920, the Bolsheviks did not comply with any of the conditions, and the new government began to erase the traces of the previous government. Everyone connected with the republic either left the country secretly in order to return and change something, or were destroyed by the Bolshevik-Dashnaks in various ways. Assassinations and shootings became commonplace. Many intellectuals of the time were shot on the island of Nargin as “enemies of the people.” One of these martyrs, who wrote his name in the glorious pages of history, was Murtuza Akhundzadeh, who was shot in 1920 as an “enemy of the people” and was acquitted only 72 years later.
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How was destroyed Chambarakand cemetery

In the middle of 1939, the Central Committee of the party decided to carry out landscaping and construction work in Baku. The implementation of the decision was entrusted to the Baku Council, for which the necessary instructions were given to the construction departments. It was planned to build up the foothills and mountain areas, to build new houses and gardens on the streets and squares in place of dilapidated houses. Everyone knew which areas of the city were considered foothills. These areas have long been remembered by people of Baku as “upper quarters”. There was no one who did not know it. At that time, Agababaov (Agababyan) was appointed chairman of the Baku Council. Agababyan, who was appointed to this post at the request of the international leaders of the republic, was improving the territories inhabited by Armenians in Baku and achieving his goal. There was an ancient cemetery in the area called the mountain park. Azerbaijanis killed by Armenians in the March genocide were buried in that area. In order to destroy this cemetery, a park was being built in the area with a special order. Thus, an area with our historical blood memory was destroyed.
Source:
Historian, researcher Elmar Hasanli
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Huseyn Musayev, an active fighter who fought in the local resistance movement against the Armenian Dashnaks in 1918

Huseyn Mammad oglu Musayev was born in 1879 in Shamakhi. He was a living witness of the genocide committed by the Armenian Dashnaks in Guba area in 1917-1918. He was one of the heroic fighters against Hamazasp’s bandits in “Bloody Valley”.
Huseyn Musayev, who lived and worked in Gusar district of Guba area in 1911-1921, built two-class schools in Ukur and Hazra villages of the district and worked as a teacher in that school together with famous intellectuals such as Alimammad Mustafayev and Javad Akhundzadeh. Also he headed the Public Education Department of the Guba Accident in 1921-1924, played an important role in organizing a network of schools and courses to eradicate illiteracy here. Huseyn Musayev, who was received by V.I. Lenin as one of the representatives of the Guba area in 1921, gave detailed information to the Bolshevik leader about the genocides committed by the Armenian Dashnaks in Guba in 1918. Gasim Ismayilov and his comrades were impressed by Huseyn Musayev’s courage. (Source: Muzaffar Malikmammadov’s book “Bloody Valley”. P. 242)
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We present within the project "Let's study Karabakh monuments" Aghdam Juma Mosque

The Friday Mosque of Aghdam was built in 1868-1870. The mosque, designed by Kerbalay Safikhan of Karabakhi, has two floors and two minarets. The building of the mosque is built of stone, and the minarets that rise from the corners of the facade of the building are of brick.
The city of Aghdam was occupied by the Armenian armed forces in 1993, and the Aghdam Juma Mosque, considered one of the pearls of Azerbaijani architecture, also fell victim to Armenian aggression. The mosque’s minarets were dismantled from the inside, the ceiling was demolished in several places, and the design and inscriptions were destroyed. By the Decree of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Azerbaijan No. 132 of August 2, 2001, the mosque was included in the list of immovable historical and cultural monuments of national importance.
After the Second Karabakh War, Aghdam region was cleared of Armenian invaders. Supreme Commander-in-Chief Ilham Aliyev and First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva visited the Juma Mosque, which is distinguished by its historical architecture, and in order to renew the mosque as a place of worship, the main book of our religion, the Holy Koran, brought from the holy lands, was presented.
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President Ilham Aliyev held a video conference dedicated to the decisiveness, success and prospects for the development of our statehood.

On December 24, 2020, a video conferencing was held in Guba regional organization of “YENI Azerbaijan” party. The video conferencing was held dedicated to the determination of the Mr. Prezident Ilham Aliyev, the successes and prospects for the development of our statehood. The conference was attended by the director of the Guba Genicide Memorial Complex, Dr. Philosophical Sciences Rakhshanda Bayramova and a group of employees of the Scientific, Researches and Exposition Department of the Complex. During the conference, Speakers discussed the activities of President Ilham Aliyev and the Great Victory in the Patriotic War.