A group of faculty members and cadets from the Academy of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, led by the head of the Academy, Major General Baba Salayev, visited the Guba Genocide Memorial Complex in Guba city.

Visitors were informed that as a result of the ethnic cleansing and aggressive policy carried out by Bolshevik-Armenian armed groups on Azerbaijani territories in the early 20th century, tens of thousands of innocent Azerbaijanis were killed in various regions. In April–May 1918 alone, 167 villages in the Guba district were completely destroyed. The Guba genocide mass grave was discovered in April 2007 during excavation works in the area. The remains of hundreds of human bodies belonging to different age groups were uncovered there. Alongside Azerbaijanis, members of other ethnic groups living in Guba, including Lezgins, Jews, Tats, and others, were also brutally killed and buried in the same site.

By decree of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev, dated 30 December 2009, the establishment of the Guba Genocide Memorial Complex was initiated. With the support of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, the complex was inaugurated on 18 September 2013.