The National History Museum had displayed photographs dedicated to the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh War.
The exhibition presents photographs that reflect the consequences of the disaster and destruction caused by rockets and shells fired by the Armenian army on the Azerbaijani regions.
The photo exhibition also displays the ruins in Ganja, left after rocket attacks during the war.
The clashes between Armenia and Azerbaijan resumed after Armenia launched large-scale attacks on Azerbaijani forces and civilians on September 27, 2020.
The 44 days of war ended with a Russian-brokered peace deal signed on November 10 by the Azerbaijani, Russian and Armenian leaders.
The peace agreement ended the 30-year conflict between Baku and Yerevan over Azerbaijan’s Karabakh region that along with the seven adjacent districts came under the occupation of Armenian armed forces in the war in the early 1990s.
For about three decades, Armenia failed to implement the UN Security Council resolutions demanding the withdrawal of the Armenian troops, being the main obstacle to the resolution of the conflict.
National Museum of History is one of the architectural pearls of the country, dating back to the 19th century.
The largest museum in the country was originally the private residence of Haji Zeynalabdin Taghiyev, who was the famous national oil baron remembered for his generous philanthropy.
Over 300,000 items are assembled in 10 collections in the museum, including a valuable library consisting mainly of unique books.
There are several departments in the museum: Modern history, Ethnography department, Department of ancient and medieval history, Scientific excursion department, Laboratory for museum restoration, Fund of Numismatics, etc.
The museum's collections provide insight into the history of Azerbaijan from past to present.
The house-museum of Taghiyev was re-opened on June 17 after restoration and reconstruction work.
The museum's opening was in line with the 100th anniversary of the National History Museum of Azerbaijan.
Additionally, the museum displayed new exhibits, stored in its fund, including paintings, documents, photographs, orders and books.
October 22 will mark the 100th anniversary of the Azerbaijan's prominent carpet artist Kamil Aliyev.
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has signed a decree on holding the artist's anniversary.
An action plan will be implemented in this regard, taking into account the proposals of the Culture Ministry and Azerbaijan Artists' Union.
The Cabinet of Minister was instructed to resolve issues arising from this order.
Kamil Aliyev is an eminent carpet artist, author of numerous samples of Azerbaijani carpet.
The artist began his activity in this field in 1937, in the experimental laboratory "Azerkhalcha" as a copy artist. Here Kamil Aliyev worked with carpet designer Latif Kerimov.
Kamil Aliyev is known primarily as the author of portrait carpets. He was the first artist in Azerbaijan who introduced portrait genre in carpets. He created portraits of dozens of public figures, including former U.S. President Bill Clinton, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Turkish President Demirel, and India's Indira Gandhi.
On October 16, an exhibition of works by two famous Latvian textile artists Irisa Blumate and Iveta Vecenane “All in Two” will open in Baku, the Latvian Embassy in Azerbaijan told Report.
The exhibition consists of a retrospective of the diverse works of artists, united by the appeal in their work to thoughts and feelings about the textile arts, to its changes and the emergence of new trends.
“The textile arts has always been an integral part of Latvian culture and one of the most popular trends in national art. It has deep historical traditions rooted in the heritage of folk-art values that have formed over many centuries,” the embassy said.
The exhibition will last until November 15.
Famous Azerbaijani songster, People's Artist Arif Babayev has health problems.
His relatives told Report that Babayev was taken to the Central Clinical Hospital: "He had problems related to the brain system but recovered after treatment. Those troubles caused health problems again, and he was hospitalized an hour ago. He is receiving treatment, and doctors are assessing his condition."
Arif Babayev was treated in Turkey a few months ago.
The official Peruvian state newspaper El Peruano published an article entitled "More than 10,000 Azerbaijani carpets are exhibited in a museum in Baku" by Ricardo Sanchez, a well-known journalist and vice-president of the Federation of Peruvian Journalists, who visited Azerbaijan's liberated territories, Report informs.
According to the Azerbaijani Embassy in Mexico, the article says that the world's first carpet museum was founded in 1967 in the Old City of Baku, and since 2014 the museum has been operating as today's Azerbaijan National Carpet Museum, where more than 10,000 carpets have been exhibited.
Sanchez noted that the carpet weaving tradition is an ancient art of the Turkic peoples, and the authors of works known as Persian carpets were the Turkic peoples.
Along with the carpets found and repatriated by the Azerbaijani government from different parts of the world, the museum displays carpets brought from the Shusha History Museum shortly before the Armenian occupation of Shusha in 1992, as well as the carpets saved by IDPs and presented to the museum.
The article describes the various carpet-weaving schools in Azerbaijan, including Karabakh, Ganja-Gazakh, Guba-Shirvan and Tabriz schools, the typical weaving styles of these schools, the dimensions, patterns, colors, figures used on carpets and their symbolic meaning and purpose of carpets.
Russia on Tuesday launched a Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft carrying a filmmaking crew to the International Space Station (ISS) to make the first movie ever shot in space, according to Anadolu Agency.
Film Director Klim Shipenko and actress Yulia Peresild, guided by cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, are traveling to the ISS to shoot scenes in the station itself and in outer space for the movie titled Vyzov (Challenge) about a female doctor who flies into orbit to save the life of an astronaut, the Russian State Corporation for Space Activities (Roscosmos) said in a statement.
Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov, Oleg Novitsky, and Pyotr Dubrov will also take part in the filming of the movie.
Before going to the ISS, the actress and director had trained for almost six months -- from May to October -- at the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.
They underwent technical, physical, psychological, and other types of training.
The film crew plans to spend 12 days at the ISS and then return on Oct. 17 aboard a Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft, piloted by cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky.
The 7th Baku International Book Exhibition, organized by Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Culture has commenced at the Baku Expo Center. The event was dedicated to the 880th anniversary of great Azerbaijani poet and scholar Nizami Ganjavi. International Turkic Culture and Heritage Foundation is also being represented in this international event along with embassies, bookstores, publishing and printing houses, cultural and scientific centers.
Books, catalogs, postage stamps and other various examples of literature that have been published in several different languages with the support and guidance of the Foundation are being presented to visitors. Publications provided by the Foundation were distributed in Azerbaijani, Turkish, English, Italian, German, French, Russian and Arabic languages. Demonstrated books and catalogs promote the ideas of unity, equality and brotherhood of the Turkic World, presenting famous personalities, traditions, historical, cultural and architectural monuments, examples of oral folk literature, national and spiritual values of the Turkic peoples.
In collaboration with the Ministry of Culture of Azerbaijan and the National Children's Library named after Firidun Kocharli, the International Turkic Culture and Heritage Foundation will present children's electronic book of Nizami Ganjavi's "Seven Beauties" poem on the sidelines of the exhibition.
The 7th Baku International Book Exhibition will run until October 10.
Fuzuli State Drama Theater will open its 33rd season on October 25 at 13:30 with a play based on Akif Hasanoglu's "Memory" ("Yaddaş").
Dedicated to the memory of the martyrs of the Patriotic War, the play was directed by the chief director of the theater, Honored Artist Asif Shirinov.
The artist of the show is Ellinaz Balashova, the composer is Sanan Sevindikzade. The play devoted to the war theme reflects the high patriotism of the Azerbaijani soldiers and their brilliant victory.
Fuzuli State Drama Theater will present its new repertoire in the coming days.
Azerbaijan State Musical Theater is getting ready for the 112th season.
The theater will please the audience with Uzeyir Hajibayli's comedy "If Not That One, Then This One" on October 30.
"If Not That One, Then This One" is a 1910 operetta in four acts that reflects social and everyday life relations in pre-revolutionary Azerbaijan. It is the composer's second work written in this genre.
The musical comedy has been shown for many years by various directors not only in Azerbaijan, but also in many theaters around the world.
In his work, Hajibayli used the Azerbaijani mugham and included extracts from Fuzuli's ghazals in the libretto.
The premiere of "If Not This One, Then That One" was held in Baku on April 25, 1911, at the Mayilov brothers' theater (today’s Azerbaijan State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater).
The main roles were performed by Mirzaagha Aliyev as Mashadi Ibad, Huseyngulu Sarabski as Sarvar, Ahmed Agdamski as Gulnaz, and M. Teregulov as Hasan bey.
The musical was conducted by Uzeyir Hajibeyli. The libretto of the comedy was first published in Baku in 1912 by the Orujov brothers' printing house.
The musical comedy has been successfully staged in Turkey, Iran, Bulgaria and other countries.
The play "The Golden Wedding" (Kazimi, Heydar), dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the People's Artist Ramiz Mammadov, will be staged on October 31.
The Shusha State Musical Drama Theater will open the 148th season on October 9.
The theater team will please the audience with new play "The Rabbit's Birthday", written by Khanimana Alibeyli.
The Rabbit's Birthday is directed by Honored Artist Logman Karimov, production designer is Valeh Mammadov.
The play will bring together Ayshan Mirzaeva, Gulara Mammadova, Gunel Imanova and others.
Altai Mammadov's performance "Madman Domrul" will also be staged on the same day.
"Madman Domrul" is directed by Honored Artist Logman Karimov, production designer is Valeh Mammadov.
The starring are Honored Artist Azad Mammadov, actors Mammad Mammadov, Pustakhanum Zeynalova, Zahra Salayeva, etc.
Shusha Musical Drama Theater has been operating since 1938. In 1992, the theater moved to Baku due to the Nagorno-Karabakh war.
In 2018, Shusha State Musical Drama Theater opened its doors after the major reconstruction.
The reconstruction works were commissioned by the State Service for the Protection, Development and Restoration of Cultural Heritage under the Ministry of Culture.
On the second floor there are rooms for sound and light operators, a film projection room. The stage was reconstructed as well. The building was provided with new telecommunication systems.
The theater successfully stages works of such prominent figures as Fatali Akhundov, Abdurrahim bey Hagverdiyev, Jafar Jabbarly, Samad Vurgun, etc.