Icherisheher
The old town inside Baku's fortress walls — its lanes, baths and caravanserais.
icherisheher.tut.az
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Maiden Tower
Baku's emblem: an eight-tier stone cylinder and the questions nobody has settled.
qiz-qalasi.tut.az
Shirvanshahs’ Palace
A 15th-century palace complex: divankhana, mosque, bathhouse and the rulers' tomb.
shirvanshahlar.tut.az
Baku Boulevard
The seafront where Baku has been unwinding since 1909 — now a park tens of kilometres long.
bulvar.tut.az
Flame Towers
Three towers whose facades turn into an LED screen at night — the postcard of modern Baku.
flame-towers.tut.az
Heydar Aliyev Center
Zaha Hadid's building flows like a wave — a lesson in architecture without right angles.
heydar-aliyev-merkezi.tut.az
Baku Metro
An underground city running since 1967: mosaics, deep stations and everyday routes.
metro.tut.az
The Baku Tram
From the 1889 horse tram to the rails lifted in 2004 — the story of a network that vanished.
tramvay.tut.az
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
Ateshgah
A pentagonal temple in Surakhani with a gas flame at its centre — the end of a pilgrims' road.
atesgah.tut.az
Yanardag
A hillside on the Absheron that has burned for decades — the plainest explanation of the “Land of Fire”.
yanardag.tut.az
Bibiheybat Mosque
A shrine demolished in 1936 and rebuilt at the end of the 1990s.
bibiheybet.tut.az
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
Pirshagi
A settlement on the Caspian shore: a sandy beach, a 17th-century mosque and the shrine behind its name.
pirshagi.tut.az
Nizami Ganjavi
The 12th-century poet behind the Khamsa — born in Ganja and buried there.
nizami-gencevi.tut.az
Uzeyir Hajibeyli
Composer of the first opera in the Muslim East and founder of Azerbaijani classical music.
uzeyir-hacibeyli.tut.az
Muslim Magomayev
The Baku baritone who became the voice of several generations — from opera to pop.
muslum-maqomayev.tut.az
Vagif Mustafazadeh
The inventor of jazz-mugham, joining piano improvisation to the modes of mugham.
vaqif-mustafazade.tut.az
Kara Karayev
The composer whose ballets and symphonic music carried the Azerbaijani school into the 20th century.
qara-qarayev.tut.az
Rashid Behbudov
The tenor the whole USSR knew after Arshin Mal Alan, and founder of the Song Theatre.
resid-behbudov.tut.az
Tahir Salahov
The painter of the “severe style”: oil workers, the Caspian, portraits — hard colour, exact composition.
tahir-salahov.tut.az
Mstislav Rostropovich
The cellist and conductor born in Baku — one of the great musicians of the 20th century.
rostropovic.tut.az
Tofiq Bahramov
The linesman whose goal decision settled the 1966 World Cup final.
tofiq-bahramov.tut.az
Zarifa Aliyeva
An ophthalmologist and academician who built a school of occupational eye medicine.
zerife-eliyeva.tut.az
Allahverdi Bagirov
A footballer and coach from Aghdam who commanded a volunteer battalion in the First Karabakh War.
bagirov-allahverdi.tut.az
20 January
In January 1990 troops entered Baku — the origin of the Day of National Mourning.
20-yanvar.tut.az
28 May — Independence Day
1918: the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic — the first parliamentary republic in the Muslim East.
28-may.tut.az
18 October — Restoration of Independence
The 1991 constitutional act marks the start of the modern Azerbaijani state.
18-oktyabr.tut.az
Alley of Martyrs
The alley on Baku's upper terrace: the graves of January 1990 and the Karabakh wars.
sehidler-xiyabani.tut.az
Albert Agarunov
A Mountain Jew born in Baku, a tank driver, and a National Hero of Azerbaijan.
albert-agarunov.tut.az
The Azerbaijani Army
From the national army of 1918 to today's armed forces — structure, history, symbols.
ordu.tut.az
8 November — Victory Day
The state holiday marking the liberation of Shusha in the autumn of 2020.
8-noyabr.tut.az
Baku Oil
From the wells to the tanker port: the industry that built the city, its architecture and its fate.
neft.tut.az
The Writers’ Union
A literary institution running since 1934: congresses, journals, arguments.
yazicilar-birliyi.tut.az
The Carpet Museum
The world's first carpet museum — founded in 1967, in its new boulevard building since 2014.
xalca-muzeyi.tut.az
Opera and Ballet Theatre
The 1911 theatre building — the main address of Baku's musical stage.
opera.tut.az
Baku Jazz
The city's own jazz dialect: mugham modes, clubs, festivals and several generations of players.
caz.tut.az
Nizami Museum of Literature
The building by Fountain Square with six writers standing on its facade.
edebiyyat-muzeyi.tut.az
Museum of Modern Art
Opened in 2009: halls without walls, skewed perspectives, art of the 20th–21st centuries.
muasir-incesenet.tut.az
Ganja
The country's second city: Nizami's home, Javad Khan's fortress, the town of the bottle house.
gence.tut.az
Sheki
The khans' palace, shebeke windows, caravanserais and piti — a UNESCO-listed town.
seki.tut.az
Quba and Krasnaya Sloboda
A town of apple orchards and, across the river, a settlement of Mountain Jews.
quba.tut.az
Lankaran
Subtropics on the southern Caspian: tea plantations, citrus and the Hyrcanian forests.
lenkeran.tut.az
Nakhchivan
An autonomous republic and the tombs of Ajami Nakhchivani — a textbook of medieval architecture.
naxcivan.tut.az
Khinalig
A village two thousand metres up, with its own language and a herding route on the UNESCO list.
xinaliq.tut.az
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