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Place live

Icherisheher

The old town inside Baku's fortress walls — its lanes, baths and caravanserais.

icherisheher.tut.az
Monument in progress

Maiden Tower

Baku's emblem: an eight-tier stone cylinder and the questions nobody has settled.

qiz-qalasi.tut.az
Place in progress

Shirvanshahs' Palace

A 15th-century palace complex: divankhana, mosque, bathhouse and the rulers' tomb.

shirvanshahlar.tut.az
Place in progress

Baku Boulevard

The seafront where Baku has been unwinding since 1909 — now a park tens of kilometres long.

bulvar.tut.az
Place in progress

Flame Towers

Three towers whose facades turn into an LED screen at night — the postcard of modern Baku.

flame-towers.tut.az
Place in progress

Heydar Aliyev Center

Zaha Hadid's building flows like a wave — a lesson in architecture without right angles.

heydar-aliyev-merkezi.tut.az
Transport in progress

Baku Metro

An underground city running since 1967: mosaics, deep stations and everyday routes.

metro.tut.az
Transport in progress

The Baku Tram

From the 1889 horse tram to the rails lifted in 2004 — the story of a network that vanished.

tramvay.tut.az
Transport in progress

Baku Funicular

A short mountain railway from the boulevard up to the Alley of Martyrs — the city's simplest lift since 1960.

funikulyor.tut.az
Place in progress

Ateshgah

A pentagonal temple in Surakhani with a gas flame at its centre — the end of a pilgrims' road.

atesgah.tut.az
Nature in progress

Yanardag

A hillside on the Absheron that has burned for decades — the plainest explanation of the “Land of Fire”.

yanardag.tut.az
Place in progress

Bibiheybat Mosque

A shrine demolished in 1936 and rebuilt at the end of the 1990s.

bibiheybet.tut.az
Subject live

Formula 1

A Grand Prix on Baku's streets: six kilometres of track, a squeeze along the fortress wall and record speed.

formula1.tut.az
Place live

Pirshagi

A settlement on the Caspian shore: a sandy beach, a 17th-century mosque and the shrine behind its name.

pirshagi.tut.az
Person in progress

Nizami Ganjavi

The 12th-century poet behind the Khamsa — born in Ganja and buried there.

nizami-gencevi.tut.az
Person in progress

Uzeyir Hajibeyli

Composer of the first opera in the Muslim East and founder of Azerbaijani classical music.

uzeyir-hacibeyli.tut.az
Person in progress

Muslim Magomayev

The Baku baritone who became the voice of several generations — from opera to pop.

muslum-maqomayev.tut.az
Person in progress

Vagif Mustafazadeh

The inventor of jazz-mugham, joining piano improvisation to the modes of mugham.

vaqif-mustafazade.tut.az
Person in progress

Kara Karayev

The composer whose ballets and symphonic music carried the Azerbaijani school into the 20th century.

qara-qarayev.tut.az
Person in progress

Rashid Behbudov

The tenor the whole USSR knew after Arshin Mal Alan, and founder of the Song Theatre.

resid-behbudov.tut.az
Person in progress

Tahir Salahov

The painter of the “severe style”: oil workers, the Caspian, portraits — hard colour, exact composition.

tahir-salahov.tut.az
Person in progress

Lev Landau

The theoretical physicist born in Baku, Nobel laureate of 1962.

lev-landau.tut.az
Person in progress

Mstislav Rostropovich

The cellist and conductor born in Baku — one of the great musicians of the 20th century.

rostropovic.tut.az
Person in progress

Garry Kasparov

The thirteenth world champion, a product of the Baku chess school.

kasparov.tut.az
Person in progress

Tofiq Bahramov

The linesman whose goal decision settled the 1966 World Cup final.

tofiq-bahramov.tut.az
Person in progress

Zarifa Aliyeva

An ophthalmologist and academician who built a school of occupational eye medicine.

zerife-eliyeva.tut.az
Person in progress

Banine

The granddaughter of oil millionaires who wrote in French from Paris.

banin.tut.az
Person live

Allahverdi Bagirov

A footballer and coach from Aghdam who commanded a volunteer battalion in the First Karabakh War.

bagirov-allahverdi.tut.az
Person live

Lotfi Zadeh

The Baku-born mathematician who invented fuzzy logic.

lotfi-zade.tut.az
Date live

20 January

In January 1990 troops entered Baku — the origin of the Day of National Mourning.

20-yanvar.tut.az
Date in progress

28 May — Independence Day

1918: the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic — the first parliamentary republic in the Muslim East.

28-may.tut.az
Place in progress

Alley of Martyrs

The alley on Baku's upper terrace: the graves of January 1990 and the Karabakh wars.

sehidler-xiyabani.tut.az
Person in progress

Albert Agarunov

A Mountain Jew born in Baku, a tank driver, and a National Hero of Azerbaijan.

albert-agarunov.tut.az
Person in progress

Azi Aslanov

The tank general from Lankaran, twice Hero of the Soviet Union.

azi-aslanov.tut.az
Subject in progress

The Azerbaijani Army

From the national army of 1918 to today's armed forces — structure, history, symbols.

ordu.tut.az
Date in progress

8 November — Victory Day

The state holiday marking the liberation of Shusha in the autumn of 2020.

8-noyabr.tut.az
Subject in progress

Baku Oil

From the wells to the tanker port: the industry that built the city, its architecture and its fate.

neft.tut.az
Institution in progress

The Writers' Union

A literary institution running since 1934: congresses, journals, arguments.

yazicilar-birliyi.tut.az
Museum in progress

The Carpet Museum

The world's first carpet museum — founded in 1967, in its new boulevard building since 2014.

xalca-muzeyi.tut.az
Institution in progress

Opera and Ballet Theatre

The 1911 theatre building — the main address of Baku's musical stage.

opera.tut.az
Subject in progress

Mugham

The modal music of an oral tradition — on the UNESCO intangible heritage list.

mugam.tut.az
Subject in progress

Baku Jazz

The city's own jazz dialect: mugham modes, clubs, festivals and several generations of players.

caz.tut.az
Museum in progress

Nizami Museum of Literature

The building by Fountain Square with six writers standing on its facade.

edebiyyat-muzeyi.tut.az
Museum in progress

Museum of Modern Art

Opened in 2009: halls without walls, skewed perspectives, art of the 20th–21st centuries.

muasir-incesenet.tut.az
Institution in progress

The Philharmonic

Built for a summer club, later the country's main concert hall.

filarmoniya.tut.az
City in progress

Ganja

The country's second city: Nizami's home, Javad Khan's fortress, the town of the bottle house.

gence.tut.az
City in progress

Sheki

The khans' palace, shebeke windows, caravanserais and piti — a UNESCO-listed town.

seki.tut.az
City in progress

Shusha

The mountain town founded as a fortress in 1752 — a centre of mugham and poetry.

susa.tut.az
City in progress

Quba and Krasnaya Sloboda

A town of apple orchards and, across the river, a settlement of Mountain Jews.

quba.tut.az
City in progress

Lankaran

Subtropics on the southern Caspian: tea plantations, citrus and the Hyrcanian forests.

lenkeran.tut.az
City in progress

Nakhchivan

An autonomous republic and the tombs of Ajami Nakhchivani — a textbook of medieval architecture.

naxcivan.tut.az
Place in progress

Lahij

A mountain village of cobbled lanes and coppersmiths' workshops.

lahic.tut.az
Place in progress

Khinalig

A village two thousand metres up, with its own language and a herding route on the UNESCO list.

xinaliq.tut.az
Place in progress

Gobustan

Rock art, a Roman inscription and mud volcanoes — an hour from Baku.

qobustan.tut.az