Oghuz region was formed on August 8, 1930.Oghuz district is allocated on the southern slopes of Big Caucasus and is bounded with Russia in the north. The highest spot of the area is Malkamud Mountain (3879 m). Oghuz district is called like Azerbaijan Swiss. The nature of those places is beautiful: mountain rivers and valleys, boiling rills and waterfalls, salutary sulfur well and bluff rocks. Woods occupy 40% of the territory of the area. Oguz region is one of the ancient settlements of Azerbaijan. People settled here in the Neolithic period. At the beginning of our era, this territory was part of Caucasian Albania, in the 9th-16th centuries - the state of the Shirvanshahs, in the 16th-18th centuries - the state of the Safavids, and from the middle of the 18th to the beginning of the 19th centuries the state of the Shaki Khanate.There are 39 historical and cultural monuments in the region, of which 32 were registered and taken under state protection, as well as included in the list of historical and cultural monuments approved by the decree of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Azerbaijan on August 2, 2001.