Azerbaijan

President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva have visited Fuzuli district. The head of state and the First Lady laid flowers at a memorial plaque to 27 September-Remembrance Day in Garakhanbayli village, Fuzuli district. The President of Azerbaijan made a speech here. Speech by …

September 27 is marked as the Day of Remembrance in Azerbaijan in accordance with the decree signed by President Ilham Aliyev, Trend reports. Soldiers and officers who showed heroism, peaceful inhabitants who worked in the rear – all the Azerbaijani people, having manifested determination and will, unity and solidarity, united in one …

World-famous chess players have gathered in Azerbaijan’s historical city to take part in Shusha Chess – 2022, Azernews reports. The international chess tournament was co-organized by the Ministry of Youth and Sports and the Azerbaijan Chess Federation (ACF) as well as the Shusha City State Reserve to celebrate the 190th …

The Azerbaijani Carpet Museum is pleased to announce the opening of the Dress to Impress: Exhibition of the Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade on September 17, Azernews reports via the museum. The event is timed to the 25th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Azerbaijan and Serbia. The exhibition will …

National Carpet Museum invites you to join a lecture on the Shusha carpets with plots on September 17, Azernews reports, citing the museum. The event participants will be informed about the ideas and artistic structure of the XIX-XX century Shusha carpets kept in the museum, as well as the lifestyle of …

An Azerbaijani delegation has participated at the Festival of National Cultures held on the occasion of the 855th anniversary of the city of Gomel, Belarus. At the festival, the representatives of the “Congress of Azerbaijani Communities” of Belarus demonstrated the culture, traditions, and national cuisine of Azerbaijani people. The visitors …

Centuries-old Majlis-Uns literary circle is currently enjoying a remarkable revival in Azerbaijan’s cultural center, Azernews reports. Majlis-Uns is a literary circle that operated in the second half of the 19th century in the city of Shusha under the leadership of the poetess, daughter of the last Karabakh khan Khurshidbanu Natavan. …

Karbalayi Safikhan Karabakhi was an Azerbaijani architect and one of the prominent representatives of the Karabakh architecture school. He made a special contribution to the development of architecture of Karabakh. In buildings built by him, especially in the mosques the constructive elements of the eastern architecture were connected to local …

A delegation of Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Culture has attended the 37th meeting of the Council for Cultural Cooperation of the CIS member states held under the chairmanship of Kazakhstan in the city of Nur-Sultan. As part of the visit, Chief of Staff of Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Culture Vugar Mammadov met …

A trip of expanded delegation of operating in Azerbaijan Non-government organizations (NGOs) to Shusha city continues, Trend reports. According to head of the Presidential Administration’s Department for Work with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and Communications Vusal Guliyev, trip organized by Council of State Support to NGOs, will end tomorrow. Among the 500 people …