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class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Overview of the architecture of Baku</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Torre_de_la_Doncella,_Baku,_Azerbaiy%C3%A1n,_2016-09-26,_DD_215-217_HDR.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Torre_de_la_Doncella%2C_Baku%2C_Azerbaiy%C3%A1n%2C_2016-09-26%2C_DD_215-217_HDR.jpg/220px-Torre_de_la_Doncella%2C_Baku%2C_Azerbaiy%C3%A1n%2C_2016-09-26%2C_DD_215-217_HDR.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="266" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Torre_de_la_Doncella%2C_Baku%2C_Azerbaiy%C3%A1n%2C_2016-09-26%2C_DD_215-217_HDR.jpg/330px-Torre_de_la_Doncella%2C_Baku%2C_Azerbaiy%C3%A1n%2C_2016-09-26%2C_DD_215-217_HDR.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Torre_de_la_Doncella%2C_Baku%2C_Azerbaiy%C3%A1n%2C_2016-09-26%2C_DD_215-217_HDR.jpg/440px-Torre_de_la_Doncella%2C_Baku%2C_Azerbaiy%C3%A1n%2C_2016-09-26%2C_DD_215-217_HDR.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3693" data-file-height="4466" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Maiden_Tower_(Baku)" title="Maiden Tower (Baku)">Maiden Tower</a>, one of Baku's top tourist attractions</figcaption></figure> <p>The <b>architecture of Baku</b> is not characterized by any particular <a href="/wiki/Architectural_style" title="Architectural style">architectural style</a>, having accumulated its buildings over a long period of time. </p><p>In itself, <a href="/wiki/Baku" title="Baku">Baku</a> contains a wide variety of styles, progressing through Masud Ibn Davud's 12th century <a href="/wiki/Maiden_Tower_(Baku)" title="Maiden Tower (Baku)">Maiden Tower</a> and the educational institutions and buildings of the <a href="/wiki/Russian_Empire" title="Russian Empire">Russian Imperial</a> era. </p><p>Late <a href="/wiki/Modern_architecture" title="Modern architecture">Modern</a> and <a href="/wiki/Postmodern_architecture" title="Postmodern architecture">Postmodern architecture</a> began to appear in the early-2000s. With the economic development, old buildings such as Atlant House have been razed to make way for new ones. Buildings with all glass shell appear around the city, with the most prominent examples being the <a href="/wiki/SOCAR_Tower" title="SOCAR Tower">SOCAR Tower</a> and <a href="/wiki/Flame_Towers" title="Flame Towers">Flame Towers</a>. </p><p>Several monuments pay homage to people and events in the city. The <a href="/wiki/Martyrs%27_Lane" title="Martyrs&#39; Lane">Martyrs' Lane</a> provides views of the surrounding area whilst commemorating the victims of <a href="/wiki/Black_January" title="Black January">Black January</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nagorno-Karabakh_conflict" title="Nagorno-Karabakh conflict">Nagorno-Karabakh conflict</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Islamic_architecture">Islamic architecture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Architecture_of_Baku&amp;action=edit&amp;section=1" title="Edit section: Islamic architecture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>With <a href="/wiki/Shi%27a" class="mw-redirect" title="Shi&#39;a">Shi'a</a> <a href="/wiki/Islam" title="Islam">Islam</a> being the dominant religion of Azerbaijan, there are may <a href="/wiki/Islamic_architecture" title="Islamic architecture">Islamic architecture</a> featured buildings that resides in <a href="/wiki/Baku" title="Baku">Baku</a>. Religious places have more <a href="/wiki/Islamic_calligraphy" title="Islamic calligraphy">Islamic calligraphy</a> drawn on the columns and other places on the structure.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In December 2000, the <a href="/wiki/Old_City_(Baku)" title="Old City (Baku)">Old City of Baku</a>, including the <a href="/wiki/Palace_of_the_Shirvanshahs" title="Palace of the Shirvanshahs">Palace of the Shirvanshahs</a> and <a href="/wiki/Maiden_Tower_(Baku)" title="Maiden Tower (Baku)">Maiden Tower</a>, became the first location in Azerbaijan to be classified as a <a href="/wiki/World_Heritage_Site" title="World Heritage Site">World Heritage Site</a> by <a href="/wiki/UNESCO" title="UNESCO">UNESCO</a>. </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-packed"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 128.66666666667px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 126.66666666667px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Q%C4%B1z_qalas%C4%B1_%C3%BCmumi_2016.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Maiden Tower"><img alt="Maiden Tower" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Q%C4%B1z_qalas%C4%B1_%C3%BCmumi_2016.jpg/190px-Q%C4%B1z_qalas%C4%B1_%C3%BCmumi_2016.jpg" decoding="async" width="127" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Q%C4%B1z_qalas%C4%B1_%C3%BCmumi_2016.jpg/285px-Q%C4%B1z_qalas%C4%B1_%C3%BCmumi_2016.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Q%C4%B1z_qalas%C4%B1_%C3%BCmumi_2016.jpg/380px-Q%C4%B1z_qalas%C4%B1_%C3%BCmumi_2016.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4374" data-file-height="3456" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Maiden Tower</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 148px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 146px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:%C5%9Eirvan%C5%9Fahlar_saray_kompleksi.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Palace of the Shirvanshahs"><img alt="Palace of the Shirvanshahs" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/%C5%9Eirvan%C5%9Fahlar_saray_kompleksi.jpg/219px-%C5%9Eirvan%C5%9Fahlar_saray_kompleksi.jpg" decoding="async" width="146" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/%C5%9Eirvan%C5%9Fahlar_saray_kompleksi.jpg/328px-%C5%9Eirvan%C5%9Fahlar_saray_kompleksi.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/%C5%9Eirvan%C5%9Fahlar_saray_kompleksi.jpg/437px-%C5%9Eirvan%C5%9Fahlar_saray_kompleksi.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5035" data-file-height="3456" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Palace_of_the_Shirvanshahs" title="Palace of the Shirvanshahs">Palace of the Shirvanshahs</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 126.66666666667px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 124.66666666667px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Baku_ShirvanshahsPalace_DivanKhana_004_1537.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Divankhane in the Palace of the Shirvanshahs"><img alt="Divankhane in the Palace of the Shirvanshahs" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Baku_ShirvanshahsPalace_DivanKhana_004_1537.jpg/187px-Baku_ShirvanshahsPalace_DivanKhana_004_1537.jpg" decoding="async" width="125" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Baku_ShirvanshahsPalace_DivanKhana_004_1537.jpg/280px-Baku_ShirvanshahsPalace_DivanKhana_004_1537.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/40/Baku_ShirvanshahsPalace_DivanKhana_004_1537.jpg/373px-Baku_ShirvanshahsPalace_DivanKhana_004_1537.jpg 2x" data-file-width="7333" data-file-height="5892" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Divankhane in the Palace of the Shirvanshahs</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 68.666666666667px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 66.666666666667px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Muhammad_Mosque_(Baku)_1.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Mahammad Mosque with Minarat, located in Inner City of Baku"><img alt="Mahammad Mosque with Minarat, located in Inner City of Baku" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Muhammad_Mosque_%28Baku%29_1.JPG/100px-Muhammad_Mosque_%28Baku%29_1.JPG" decoding="async" width="67" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Muhammad_Mosque_%28Baku%29_1.JPG/150px-Muhammad_Mosque_%28Baku%29_1.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Muhammad_Mosque_%28Baku%29_1.JPG/200px-Muhammad_Mosque_%28Baku%29_1.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3168" data-file-height="4752" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Muhammad_Mosque_(Baku)" class="mw-redirect" title="Muhammad Mosque (Baku)">Mahammad Mosque</a> with Minarat, located in <a href="/wiki/Old_City_(Baku)" title="Old City (Baku)">Inner City</a> of Baku</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 77.333333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 75.333333333333px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:T%C9%99z%C9%99pir_m%C9%99scidi_cut.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Tazapir Mosque"><img alt="Tazapir Mosque" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/T%C9%99z%C9%99pir_m%C9%99scidi_cut.jpg/113px-T%C9%99z%C9%99pir_m%C9%99scidi_cut.jpg" decoding="async" width="76" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/T%C9%99z%C9%99pir_m%C9%99scidi_cut.jpg/169px-T%C9%99z%C9%99pir_m%C9%99scidi_cut.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/T%C9%99z%C9%99pir_m%C9%99scidi_cut.jpg/226px-T%C9%99z%C9%99pir_m%C9%99scidi_cut.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2281" data-file-height="3028" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Tazapir_Mosque" class="mw-redirect" title="Tazapir Mosque">Tazapir Mosque</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 132.66666666667px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 130.66666666667px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Juma_Mosque_of_Baku.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Juma Mosque of Baku"><img alt="Juma Mosque of Baku" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Juma_Mosque_of_Baku.jpg/196px-Juma_Mosque_of_Baku.jpg" decoding="async" width="131" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Juma_Mosque_of_Baku.jpg/293px-Juma_Mosque_of_Baku.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/Juma_Mosque_of_Baku.jpg/391px-Juma_Mosque_of_Baku.jpg 2x" data-file-width="867" data-file-height="665" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Juma_Mosque_(Baku)" title="Juma Mosque (Baku)">Juma Mosque of Baku</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 150px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 148px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Baku_Bibi-EybatMosque_004_8705.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Bibi-Heybat Mosque"><img alt="Bibi-Heybat Mosque" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Baku_Bibi-EybatMosque_004_8705.jpg/222px-Baku_Bibi-EybatMosque_004_8705.jpg" decoding="async" width="148" height="100" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Baku_Bibi-EybatMosque_004_8705.jpg/333px-Baku_Bibi-EybatMosque_004_8705.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Baku_Bibi-EybatMosque_004_8705.jpg/443px-Baku_Bibi-EybatMosque_004_8705.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6053" data-file-height="4098" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Bibi-Heybat_Mosque" title="Bibi-Heybat Mosque">Bibi-Heybat Mosque</a></div> </li> </ul> <p>Islamic buildings continued to be constructed in Baku during the Imperial period. In particular, the <a href="/wiki/Ajdarbey_Mosque" title="Ajdarbey Mosque">Ajdarbey Mosque</a> in then outskirts of the city was built in 1912–1913.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Imperial_Russian_and_the_Azerbaijan_Democratic_Republic_era">Imperial Russian and the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic era</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Architecture_of_Baku&amp;action=edit&amp;section=2" title="Edit section: Imperial Russian and the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic era"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Urban_development_and_construction">Urban development and construction</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Architecture_of_Baku&amp;action=edit&amp;section=3" title="Edit section: Urban development and construction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Black_City_(Baku)" title="Black City (Baku)">Black City (Baku)</a> and <a href="/wiki/Petroleum_industry_in_Azerbaijan" title="Petroleum industry in Azerbaijan">Petroleum industry in Azerbaijan</a></div> <p>With the boom of the <a href="/wiki/Petroleum_industry_in_Azerbaijan" title="Petroleum industry in Azerbaijan">oil industry</a> in Baku came an influx of both foreign western cash and ideas. <a href="/wiki/Eclecticism_in_architecture" title="Eclecticism in architecture">Eclectic architecture</a> fusing not only east and west, but several western styles as well became prevalent in the architecture found in the city outside the medieval walls.<sup id="cite_ref-Baku:_Oil_and_Urbanism_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Baku:_Oil_and_Urbanism-5"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Local oil industrialists had the opportunity to travel, particularly to Europe, where they came back with ideas of the European architectural styles, and had both the desire and the capital to recreate them.<sup id="cite_ref-azer.com_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-azer.com-6"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Two industrialized districts would be created to the east of the original medieval city and Russian garrison, the denser and older <a href="/wiki/Black_City_(Baku)" title="Black City (Baku)">Black City</a> and the newer, sprawling White City.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Black_City_(Baku)" title="Black City (Baku)">Black City</a> was the first example of a planned industrial district in the Russian empire, it would be separated from the original residential and commercial zones by a two-kilometer buffer zone.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> A dense 80 sq meter block grid would be created, designated for a flexible factory-based use.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Contemporaries would comment on how dirty this district was, with the black oil smoke that filled the air giving the area its name.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Naftaproduktionsbolaget_Br%C3%B6derna_Nobel_7.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Naftaproduktionsbolaget_Br%C3%B6derna_Nobel_7.jpg/300px-Naftaproduktionsbolaget_Br%C3%B6derna_Nobel_7.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="210" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Naftaproduktionsbolaget_Br%C3%B6derna_Nobel_7.jpg/450px-Naftaproduktionsbolaget_Br%C3%B6derna_Nobel_7.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/78/Naftaproduktionsbolaget_Br%C3%B6derna_Nobel_7.jpg/600px-Naftaproduktionsbolaget_Br%C3%B6derna_Nobel_7.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1300" data-file-height="912" /></a><figcaption>The Nobel oil refinery manager's residence, on the border of the Black city in "<a href="/wiki/Villa_Petrolea" title="Villa Petrolea">Villa Petrolea</a>"</figcaption></figure> <p>As Baku grew industrially, the White City would be developed to house the growing industry. It was characterized by its lack of a block structure, instead opting to have larger blocks (about 500x300 meters on average), irregular in size, which would accommodate to the shape taken by the factories rather than the other way around.<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The White City would grow to mainly house only select new refineries, which were cleaner than those used in the Black City, and would also be home to some of the workers housing developments created by the owners of the factories and refineries.<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceA_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceA-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>What had started as an oil boom in Baku soon turned to a construction one with the quick and massive influx of capital to the city. The city's population grew rapidly, at a rate faster than contemporary New York.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The foreign population started to exceed that of the local Azeri's, and with it came western influence in construction.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Due to the intensity and rapidness of development, the city was developed both vertically as well as horizontally, with most new construction boasting large foundations meant to have more levels added to it with the next influx of capital.<sup id="cite_ref-azer.com_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-azer.com-6"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Most of the construction was made using the local limestone quarried near the city, and the first few layers of development tended to be of vaulted masonry, meant to be structurally strong enough to develop additional stories on top later on.<sup id="cite_ref-azer.com_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-azer.com-6"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> It was an architecture characteristic of that of an oil boomtown, one that was meant to be adapted and added to with the next boom. A side product of this rapid development, however, was un regulation in proper city planning, something complained about by contemporaries.<sup id="cite_ref-Fire_and_Sword_in_the_Caucasus_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fire_and_Sword_in_the_Caucasus-14"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> There was a lack of proper street planning, lighting planning, transportation systems, and sanitary arrangements.<sup id="cite_ref-Fire_and_Sword_in_the_Caucasus_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fire_and_Sword_in_the_Caucasus-14"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Baku_1898_plan.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Baku_1898_plan.jpg/500px-Baku_1898_plan.jpg" decoding="async" width="500" height="390" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Baku_1898_plan.jpg/750px-Baku_1898_plan.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Baku_1898_plan.jpg/1000px-Baku_1898_plan.jpg 2x" data-file-width="7899" data-file-height="6162" /></a><figcaption>Plan of Baku 1898-1900, masterplan by Von der Nonne</figcaption></figure> <p>In a second cycle of construction, oil industrialists who had made their fortunes in the 1870s and 80s would develop the area between the medieval walled city and the Black City in the 1890s and early 1900s, creating the metropolitan Baku that would be nicknamed the "Paris of the Caspian."<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> They would model the area after the great European cities of the time, with wide canopied boulevards, a seaside esplanade, monumental civic buildings, and all the new technologies in communication and transportation.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-azer.com_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-azer.com-6"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The oil barons competed with each other to donate the most lavish and monumental civic buildings, but the initial construction was spearheaded by <a href="/wiki/Zeynalabdin_Taghiyev" title="Zeynalabdin Taghiyev">Haji Zeynalabdin Taghiyev</a> (1823?-1924), one of the most philanthropic of the industrialists.<sup id="cite_ref-Baku:_Oil_and_Urbanism_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Baku:_Oil_and_Urbanism-5"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The first Azerbaijani National Theater was founded in 1873, as well as another theater built in 1882. Parks and educational centers such as vocational schools were given great importance during this time, including Baku's <a href="/wiki/Empress_Alexandra_Russian_Muslim_Boarding_School_for_Girls" title="Empress Alexandra Russian Muslim Boarding School for Girls">first school for Muslim girls</a> in 1910, designed by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Josef_Goslavsky&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Josef Goslavsky (page does not exist)">Josef Goslavsky</a>, who was then the Chief Architect of Baku.<sup id="cite_ref-Baku:_Oil_and_Urbanism_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Baku:_Oil_and_Urbanism-5"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-azer.com_6-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-azer.com-6"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Soon more of the wealthy industrialists followed and competed in a philanthropic battle of donating towards the development of the city, such as <a href="/wiki/Musa_Naghiyev" title="Musa Naghiyev">Musa Naghiyev</a> and <a href="/wiki/Shamsi_Asadullayev" title="Shamsi Asadullayev">Shamsi Asadullaev</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Many of the hallmarks of a thriving cosmopolitan city were constructed during this time. The <a href="/w/index.php?title=Baku_City_Duma&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Baku City Duma (page does not exist)">Baku City Duma</a> was built from 1900-1904, also designed by Goslavsky in an <a href="/wiki/Renaissance_architecture" title="Renaissance architecture">Italianate renaissance</a> style on the northern edge of the medieval walled city.<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceB_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceB-18"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Construction of buildings in Baku remained largely using the <a href="/wiki/Limestone" title="Limestone">limestone</a> available locally, with other materials easily brought down the <a href="/wiki/Volga" title="Volga">Volga</a> and through the city port. Unlike their European and Russian counterparts, however, they were not covered in stucco because of the local climate. Instead, the limestone was intricately carved, and thus used in creating ornamentation of the facade.<sup id="cite_ref-azer.com_6-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-azer.com-6"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Oil_baron_mansions">Oil baron mansions</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Architecture_of_Baku&amp;action=edit&amp;section=4" title="Edit section: Oil baron mansions"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As well as competing between each other in philanthropic purposes, the oil industrialists of the 1880s, 90s, and early 1900s would compete with each other to build the most lavish mansions in the new residential quarters they created.<sup id="cite_ref-ReferenceB_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ReferenceB-18"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> They imported architects as well as style preferences from their travels to Europe, and sought to emulate the grand urban palaces they saw for themselves in Baku. These mansions would become emblematic of the distinct architectural style of pre-Soviet Baku, a fusion of east and western styles in the eclectic style which was popular in the period.<sup id="cite_ref-Baku:_Oil_and_Urbanism_5-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Baku:_Oil_and_Urbanism-5"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Saadet_sarayi_2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Saadet_sarayi_2.jpg/200px-Saadet_sarayi_2.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="167" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Saadet_sarayi_2.jpg/300px-Saadet_sarayi_2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b1/Saadet_sarayi_2.jpg/400px-Saadet_sarayi_2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1153" data-file-height="962" /></a><figcaption>Originally the Mukhtarov residence, it was converted to a Wedding Palace during the Soviet period</figcaption></figure> <p>It started as an importing of purely Western styles, in some cases an almost exact copy, created from modified plans of a European palace. Such is the former residence of <a href="/wiki/Murtuza_Mukhtarov" title="Murtuza Mukhtarov">Murtuza Mukhtarov</a>, built for his wife after she liked a <a href="/wiki/French_Gothic_architecture" title="French Gothic architecture">French gothic</a> palace they visited. Mukhtarov would obtain the plans, hired the polish architect I. K. Ploshko to modify the plans, and built in 1911-1912. After invasion by the Red Army it was converted to a "<a href="/wiki/Palace_of_Happiness" title="Palace of Happiness">wedding palace</a>," a purpose to which it still serves today.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Taghiyev residence (1895-1902) is another example of the western style in the architecture, designed by the polish architect Goslavsky in the Italianate renaissance style he was known for.<sup id="cite_ref-Architecture_of_the_Oil_Baron_Perio_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Architecture_of_the_Oil_Baron_Perio-22"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> It is known for its heavily decorated interior, with a gilded main gallery on the second floor. It was richly decorated with a mixture of <a href="/wiki/Art_Nouveau" title="Art Nouveau">Art Nouveau</a> ornamentation and furniture.<sup id="cite_ref-Baku:_Oil_and_Urbanism_5-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Baku:_Oil_and_Urbanism-5"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> It was converted to the <a href="/wiki/National_Museum_of_History_of_Azerbaijan" title="National Museum of History of Azerbaijan">National Museum of History of Azerbaijan</a> under the soviets, and the limestone chiseled "T" for Taghiyev is still visible in the facade after a Soviet attempt to remove it.<sup id="cite_ref-Architecture_of_the_Oil_Baron_Perio_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Architecture_of_the_Oil_Baron_Perio-22"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> As the mixing of western styles with eastern elements continued, architects from places ranging between Germany, Russia, and Poland would design not only variations of eclectic mixes between <a href="/wiki/Gothic_Revival_architecture" title="Gothic Revival architecture">Gothic</a> and <a href="/wiki/Revivalism_(architecture)" title="Revivalism (architecture)">revival</a> styles, but also eccentric mixes such as a three-story mansion shaped like a dragon, a house in the shape of a house of cards, and another supposedly covered in gold leaf.<sup id="cite_ref-Baku:_Oil_and_Urbanism_5-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Baku:_Oil_and_Urbanism-5"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Gallery">Gallery</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Architecture_of_Baku&amp;action=edit&amp;section=5" title="Edit section: Gallery"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-packed"> <li 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srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Building_on_Khagani_Street_27_2020.jpg/243px-Building_on_Khagani_Street_27_2020.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Building_on_Khagani_Street_27_2020.jpg/324px-Building_on_Khagani_Street_27_2020.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1342" data-file-height="1490" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Sabir_Central_City_Library" title="Sabir Central City Library">Sabir Central City Library</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 129.33333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 127.33333333333px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Building_on_Yusif_Mammadaliyev_Street_11_2020.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Rylsky brothers&#39; house"><img alt="Rylsky brothers&#39; house" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Building_on_Yusif_Mammadaliyev_Street_11_2020.jpg/191px-Building_on_Yusif_Mammadaliyev_Street_11_2020.jpg" decoding="async" width="128" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Building_on_Yusif_Mammadaliyev_Street_11_2020.jpg/287px-Building_on_Yusif_Mammadaliyev_Street_11_2020.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Building_on_Yusif_Mammadaliyev_Street_11_2020.jpg/383px-Building_on_Yusif_Mammadaliyev_Street_11_2020.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2459" data-file-height="2314" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Rylsky_brothers%27_house" title="Rylsky brothers&#39; house">Rylsky brothers' house</a></div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Soviet_period">Soviet period</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Architecture_of_Baku&amp;action=edit&amp;section=6" title="Edit section: Soviet period"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>USSR Council of Ministers' resolution "On measures to further industrialization, improving quality and reducing the cost of construction" and "The removal of excess in the design and construction" in the mid-1950s has helped to initiate mass housing in Baku.<sup id="cite_ref-bakuarc_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bakuarc-23"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The architectural image of the country's capital was enriched by a number of interesting in conception projects and highly significant in terms of urban sites, such as the building of the historical <a href="/wiki/Ismailiyya_Palace" title="Ismailiyya Palace">Ismailiyya Palace</a>, which nowadays is the office of the Presidium of National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan, the Lenin Palace (now the <a href="/wiki/Heydar_Aliyev_Palace" title="Heydar Aliyev Palace">Heydar Aliyev Palace</a>), as well as marine and railway stations.<sup id="cite_ref-bakuarc_23-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bakuarc-23"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-packed"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 175.33333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 173.33333333333px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Azerbaijan_State_Academic_Drama_Theatre_3.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Azerbaijan State Academic Drama Theatre"><img alt="Azerbaijan State Academic Drama Theatre" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Azerbaijan_State_Academic_Drama_Theatre_3.JPG/260px-Azerbaijan_State_Academic_Drama_Theatre_3.JPG" decoding="async" width="174" height="130" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Azerbaijan_State_Academic_Drama_Theatre_3.JPG/390px-Azerbaijan_State_Academic_Drama_Theatre_3.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Azerbaijan_State_Academic_Drama_Theatre_3.JPG/519px-Azerbaijan_State_Academic_Drama_Theatre_3.JPG 2x" data-file-width="3875" data-file-height="2910" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Azerbaijan_State_Academic_Drama_Theatre" class="mw-redirect" title="Azerbaijan State Academic Drama Theatre">Azerbaijan State Academic Drama Theatre</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 198.66666666667px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 196.66666666667px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Monolit_building_in_Baku.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="An apartment building &quot;Monolit&quot; in the Stalinist architecture"><img alt="An apartment building &quot;Monolit&quot; in the Stalinist architecture" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Monolit_building_in_Baku.jpg/295px-Monolit_building_in_Baku.jpg" decoding="async" width="197" height="130" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Monolit_building_in_Baku.jpg/444px-Monolit_building_in_Baku.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Monolit_building_in_Baku.jpg/590px-Monolit_building_in_Baku.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2772" data-file-height="1832" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">An apartment building "Monolit" in the <a href="/wiki/Stalinist_architecture" title="Stalinist architecture">Stalinist architecture</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 236.66666666667px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 234.66666666667px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:House_of_scientists,_Neft%C3%A7il%C9%99r_pr._69.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Residential building of scientists"><img alt="Residential building of scientists" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/House_of_scientists%2C_Neft%C3%A7il%C9%99r_pr._69.jpg/352px-House_of_scientists%2C_Neft%C3%A7il%C9%99r_pr._69.jpg" decoding="async" width="235" height="130" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/House_of_scientists%2C_Neft%C3%A7il%C9%99r_pr._69.jpg/528px-House_of_scientists%2C_Neft%C3%A7il%C9%99r_pr._69.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/House_of_scientists%2C_Neft%C3%A7il%C9%99r_pr._69.jpg/703px-House_of_scientists%2C_Neft%C3%A7il%C9%99r_pr._69.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4522" data-file-height="2511" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/w/index.php?title=Residential_building_of_scientists&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Residential building of scientists (page does not exist)">Residential building of scientists</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 152px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Building_in_Nizami_street.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Buzovnaneft building"><img alt="Buzovnaneft building" 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class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Nizami_kinoteatr%C4%B1.jpg/440px-Nizami_kinoteatr%C4%B1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Nizami_kinoteatr%C4%B1.jpg/585px-Nizami_kinoteatr%C4%B1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4752" data-file-height="3168" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Nizami_Cinema_Center" title="Nizami Cinema Center">Nizami Cinema Center</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 198.66666666667px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 196.66666666667px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Intourist_Hotel_in_Baku.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Intourist Hotel, architect Alexey Shchusev"><img alt="Intourist Hotel, architect Alexey Shchusev" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Intourist_Hotel_in_Baku.jpg/295px-Intourist_Hotel_in_Baku.jpg" decoding="async" width="197" height="130" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Intourist_Hotel_in_Baku.jpg/443px-Intourist_Hotel_in_Baku.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Intourist_Hotel_in_Baku.jpg/590px-Intourist_Hotel_in_Baku.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2244" data-file-height="1485" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Intourist_Hotel" class="mw-redirect" title="Intourist Hotel">Intourist Hotel</a>, architect <a href="/wiki/Alexey_Shchusev" title="Alexey Shchusev">Alexey Shchusev</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 181.33333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 179.33333333333px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:G%C3%BCl%C3%BCstan_saray%C4%B1.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Gulustan Palace"><img alt="Gulustan Palace" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/90/G%C3%BCl%C3%BCstan_saray%C4%B1.jpg/269px-G%C3%BCl%C3%BCstan_saray%C4%B1.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="130" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/90/G%C3%BCl%C3%BCstan_saray%C4%B1.jpg/404px-G%C3%BCl%C3%BCstan_saray%C4%B1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/90/G%C3%BCl%C3%BCstan_saray%C4%B1.jpg/537px-G%C3%BCl%C3%BCstan_saray%C4%B1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3995" data-file-height="2902" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Gulustan_Palace" title="Gulustan Palace">Gulustan Palace</a></div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Post-Soviet_and_present_day">Post-Soviet and present day</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Architecture_of_Baku&amp;action=edit&amp;section=7" title="Edit section: Post-Soviet and present day"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Baku’s new business districts today has shifted around the Baku city center, with many <a href="/wiki/High-tech_architecture" title="High-tech architecture">high-tech buildings</a> and <a href="/wiki/Postmodern_architecture" title="Postmodern architecture">postmodern architecture</a>. Aside from buildings used for business and institutions, various new residential developments are currently underway, many of which consist of high-rise buildings with a glass exterior, surrounded by American-style residential communities. </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-packed"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 216px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 214px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Baku_Congress_Center.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Baku Convention Center"><img alt="Baku Convention Center" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Baku_Congress_Center.jpg/321px-Baku_Congress_Center.jpg" decoding="async" width="214" height="130" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Baku_Congress_Center.jpg/482px-Baku_Congress_Center.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Baku_Congress_Center.jpg/641px-Baku_Congress_Center.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2362" data-file-height="1437" 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style="width: 191.33333333333px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 189.33333333333px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Aliyev_Center_In_Context_(220956695).jpeg" class="mw-file-description" title="Heydar Aliyev Center"><img alt="Heydar Aliyev Center" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/The_Aliyev_Center_In_Context_%28220956695%29.jpeg/284px-The_Aliyev_Center_In_Context_%28220956695%29.jpeg" decoding="async" width="190" height="130" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/The_Aliyev_Center_In_Context_%28220956695%29.jpeg/427px-The_Aliyev_Center_In_Context_%28220956695%29.jpeg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/The_Aliyev_Center_In_Context_%28220956695%29.jpeg/568px-The_Aliyev_Center_In_Context_%28220956695%29.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1406" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Heydar_Aliyev_Center" title="Heydar Aliyev Center">Heydar 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architects of Baku have influenced the city's architecture throughout its development during the 19th and 20th centuries.<sup id="cite_ref-Azerbaijan_Diary_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Azerbaijan_Diary-24"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="History">History</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Architecture_of_Baku&amp;action=edit&amp;section=9" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The names of numerous medieval architects of Baku are depicted on their buildings. One can mention the names of <a href="/wiki/Masud_ibn_Davud" title="Masud ibn Davud">Masud ibn Davud</a>, who designed <a href="/wiki/Maiden_Tower_(Baku)" title="Maiden Tower (Baku)">Maiden Tower</a>, his son Abdul-Majid Masud oglu, the author of the project of <a href="/wiki/Sabayil_Castle" title="Sabayil Castle">Sabayil Castle</a> and <a href="/wiki/Round_Castle_(Mardakan)" class="mw-redirect" title="Round Castle (Mardakan)">Round Castle in Mardakan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mahmud_ibn_Sa%27d" title="Mahmud ibn Sa&#39;d">Mahmud ibn Sa'd</a>, who built <a href="/wiki/Bibi-Heybat_Mosque" title="Bibi-Heybat Mosque">Bibi-Heybat Mosque</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nardaran_Fortress" title="Nardaran Fortress">Nardaran Fortress</a> and <a href="/wiki/Molla_Ahmad_Mosque" title="Molla Ahmad Mosque">Molla Ahmad Mosque</a> in Baku's Old City, etc. </p><p>Due to the oil boom in the 19th century, Baku became a rapidly developing city and grew rapidly.<sup id="cite_ref-Historical_Dictionary_of_Azerbaijan_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Historical_Dictionary_of_Azerbaijan-25"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The large-scale construction of the city was directly tied to the increase of the city's population. Eventually, this brought numerous Armenian, Azerbaijani, German (<a href="/wiki/Adolf_Eichler" title="Adolf Eichler">Adolf Eichler</a> and Nicolaus von der Nonne), Polish (<a href="/wiki/J%C3%B3zef_Gos%C5%82awski_(architect)" title="Józef Gosławski (architect)">Józef Gosławski</a> and <a href="/wiki/J%C3%B3zef_P%C5%82oszko" title="Józef Płoszko">Józef Płoszko</a>) and Russian architects to the city, who ultimately influenced the city's architectural profile.<sup id="cite_ref-Historical_Dictionary_of_Azerbaijan_25-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Historical_Dictionary_of_Azerbaijan-25"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Much of these architects were educated in Russia and, in particular, in St. Petersburg, Russia's capital city of the time. These included a number of high-profile designers, such as <a href="/wiki/Freidun_Aghalyan" title="Freidun Aghalyan">Freidun Aghalyan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Zivar_bey_Ahmadbeyov" class="mw-redirect" title="Zivar bey Ahmadbeyov">Zivar bey Ahmadbeyov</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nikolai_Bayev" title="Nikolai Bayev">Nikolai Bayev</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mammad_Hasan_Hajinski" title="Mammad Hasan Hajinski">Mammad Hasan Hajinski</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Hovhannes_Katchaznouni" class="mw-redirect" title="Hovhannes Katchaznouni">Hovhannes Katchaznouni</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Activity_of_Armenian_Architects_in_South_Caucasus_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Activity_of_Armenian_Architects_in_South_Caucasus-26"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> From 1860 till 1868, <a href="/wiki/Gasim_bey_Hajibababeyov" title="Gasim bey Hajibababeyov">Gasim bey Hajibababeyov</a> was considered the chief architect of Baku.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Architects during the Soviet period include <a href="/wiki/Mikayil_Huseynov" title="Mikayil Huseynov">Mikayil Huseynov</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sadig_Dadashov" class="mw-redirect" title="Sadig Dadashov">Sadig Dadashov</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lev_Ilyin" title="Lev Ilyin">Lev Ilyin</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lev_Rudnev" title="Lev Rudnev">Lev Rudnev</a> etc.<sup id="cite_ref-Architects_Soviet_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Architects_Soviet-28"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In Baku also worked architects <a href="/wiki/Hasan_Majidov" title="Hasan Majidov">Hasan Majidov</a>, who designed the building of Museum center, <a href="/wiki/Talaat_Khanlarov" title="Talaat Khanlarov">Talaat Khanlarov</a>, the author of <a href="/wiki/Heydar_Aliyev_Sports_and_Exhibition_Complex" class="mw-redirect" title="Heydar Aliyev Sports and Exhibition Complex">Heydar Aliyev Sports and Exhibition Complex</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Авалов_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Авалов-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Anvar Qasimzade, who designed the building of the Oil and Gas Research and Design Institute (1956) and <a href="/wiki/Ulduz_(Baku_Metro)" title="Ulduz (Baku Metro)">Ulduz</a> metro station.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Architects">Architects</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Architecture_of_Baku&amp;action=edit&amp;section=10" title="Edit section: Architects"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Architect</th> <th>Biography</th> <th>Works </th></tr> <tr> <td></td> <td>Born <a href="/wiki/Shusha" title="Shusha">Shusha</a>, <a href="/wiki/Karabakh" title="Karabakh">Karabakh</a> November 20, 1876 – died <a href="/wiki/Yerevan" title="Yerevan">Yerevan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Armenia_SSR" class="mw-redirect" title="Armenia SSR">Armenia SSR</a> February 1, 1944. Of <a href="/wiki/Armenians" title="Armenians">Armenian</a> descent, in 1903 Aghalyan finished the <a href="/wiki/Saint-Petersburg_State_University_of_Architecture_and_Civil_Engineering" class="mw-redirect" title="Saint-Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering">St. Petersburg Institute of Civil Engineering</a>.</td> <td>In 1903–1921 he constructed railroad bridges, gymnasium, the Treasury palace and Workers House.<sup id="cite_ref-Activity_of_Armenian_Architects_in_South_Caucasus_26-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Activity_of_Armenian_Architects_in_South_Caucasus-26"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Concise_Armenian_Encyclopedia_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Concise_Armenian_Encyclopedia-31"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Axmedbekov-1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Axmedbekov-1.jpg/150px-Axmedbekov-1.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="218" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Axmedbekov-1.jpg/225px-Axmedbekov-1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Axmedbekov-1.jpg/300px-Axmedbekov-1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1284" data-file-height="1870" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Zivar_bey_Ahmadbeyov" class="mw-redirect" title="Zivar bey Ahmadbeyov">Zivar bey Ahmadbeyov</a></figcaption></figure></td> <td>Born <a href="/wiki/Shamakhy" class="mw-redirect" title="Shamakhy">Shamakhy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Azerbaijan" title="Azerbaijan">Azerbaijan</a> 1873 - died 1925, <a href="/wiki/Baku" title="Baku">Baku</a>. In 1902, Zivar bey Ahmadbeyov graduated from <a href="/wiki/Saint-Petersburg_State_University_of_Architecture_and_Civil_Engineering" class="mw-redirect" title="Saint-Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering">Saint-Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering</a>. From this year to 1917, Ahmadbeyov worked as an architect in <a href="/wiki/Baku_Governorate" title="Baku Governorate">Baku Governorate</a>, then in Baku City Council. After the establishment of the <a href="/wiki/Azerbaijan_Democratic_Republic" title="Azerbaijan Democratic Republic">Azerbaijan Democratic Republic</a>, Ahmadbeyov became the chief architect of Baku and held this post until 1922.</td> <td>Two of the largest mosques in Baku, the Baku-Blue Mosque and <a href="/wiki/Taza_Pir_Mosque" title="Taza Pir Mosque">Taza Pir Mosque</a> were constructed (1905-1914) according to the projects of Ahmadbeyov.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Murtuza_Mukhtarov" title="Murtuza Mukhtarov">Murtuza Mukhtarov</a> Mosque, Saadet School (1912-1913), Ittifak Mosque (1911-1913), Hospital Pavilion, three houses on the yard of Mikhaylovskaya hospital (1912), corpus of Mikhaylovskaya hospital on Balakhanskaya 31 (1912-1913; now Fizuli Street), Children hospital on Persidskaya Street (1914-1918; now Mukhtarov Street), House on the 6th Park Lane 1 (1914-1916).<sup id="cite_ref-Architects_19_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Architects_19-35"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:NBayev.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/16/NBayev.jpg/150px-NBayev.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="202" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/16/NBayev.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="269" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Nikolai_Bayev" title="Nikolai Bayev">Nikolai Bayev</a></figcaption></figure></td> <td>Born <a href="/wiki/Astrakhan" title="Astrakhan">Astrakhan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a> October 6, 1875 – died August 5, 1952, <a href="/wiki/Yerevan" title="Yerevan">Yerevan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Armenia_SSR" class="mw-redirect" title="Armenia SSR">Armenia SSR</a>. Of <a href="/wiki/Armenians" title="Armenians">Armenian</a> descent, Bayev was educated at the <a href="/wiki/Saint-Petersburg_State_University_of_Architecture_and_Civil_Engineering" class="mw-redirect" title="Saint-Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering">St. Petersburg Institute of Civil Engineering</a>. From 1911–1918 he worked as Major Engineer of <a href="/wiki/Baku" title="Baku">Baku</a>.</td> <td>Constructed more than 100 buildings in Baku, including the Great Theatre of the Mayilyan Brothers (modern days <a href="/wiki/Azerbaijan_State_Opera_Theatre" class="mw-redirect" title="Azerbaijan State Opera Theatre">Azerbaijan State Opera Theatre</a>, 1911), Baku Northern Savings Bank, Sabunchi Railway Station, a neighborhood in the former <a href="/wiki/Ermenikend" class="mw-redirect" title="Ermenikend">Ermenikend</a> area of Baku, series of schools, gymnasiums, Semashko Hospital (1914–18), residences of Salmanov, Sheremetiev, and others.<sup id="cite_ref-Activity_of_Armenian_Architects_in_South_Caucasus_26-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Activity_of_Armenian_Architects_in_South_Caucasus-26"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Socialist_Realism_Without_Shores_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Socialist_Realism_Without_Shores-37"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Our_Baku:_Nikolai_Bayev_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Our_Baku:_Nikolai_Bayev-39"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-azerbintl_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-azerbintl-40"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-World_Largest_KFC_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-World_Largest_KFC-41"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Konstantin_Borisoglebskiy&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Konstantin Borisoglebskiy (page does not exist)">Konstantin Borisoglebskiy</a></td> <td>Born on October 16, 1861, in Moscow Gubernia. Graduated <a href="/wiki/Saint-Petersburg_State_University_of_Architecture_and_Civil_Engineering" class="mw-redirect" title="Saint-Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering">St. Petersburg University of Civil Engineering</a><sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></td> <td>Olginskaya rows - four-stored building on Olginskaya Street 5 (now Rasulzade Street; 1910-1912), building of the Gymnasium on Balakhanskaya Street (now the building of hospital on Fizuli Street 61) built in 1913<sup id="cite_ref-Architects_19_35-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Architects_19-35"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mikhail_Botov.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Mikhail_Botov.jpg/150px-Mikhail_Botov.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="167" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Mikhail_Botov.jpg/225px-Mikhail_Botov.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Mikhail_Botov.jpg/300px-Mikhail_Botov.jpg 2x" data-file-width="418" data-file-height="466" /></a><figcaption><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mikhail_Botov&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Mikhail Botov (page does not exist)">Mikhail Botov</a></figcaption></figure></td> <td>Born 1855 - died 1886. Graduated <a href="/wiki/Saint-Petersburg_State_University_of_Architecture_and_Civil_Engineering" class="mw-redirect" title="Saint-Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering">St. Petersburg University of Civil Engineering</a> in 1881.<sup id="cite_ref-Architects_19_35-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Architects_19-35"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></td> <td>Mariinskaya Gymnasium (now the second building of the National Art Museum of Azerbaijan; 1883–85), Muslim bath (1884), Aleksandrovskaya baths (1884; not preserved), two one-storied houses (1883)<sup id="cite_ref-Architects_19_35-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Architects_19-35"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dmitriy_Bujnov.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Dmitriy_Bujnov.JPG/150px-Dmitriy_Bujnov.JPG" decoding="async" width="150" height="174" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Dmitriy_Bujnov.JPG/225px-Dmitriy_Bujnov.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Dmitriy_Bujnov.JPG/300px-Dmitriy_Bujnov.JPG 2x" data-file-width="478" data-file-height="556" /></a><figcaption><a href="/w/index.php?title=Dmitriy_Buynov&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Dmitriy Buynov (page does not exist)">Dmitriy Buynov</a></figcaption></figure></td> <td>Born 1859. Graduated <a href="/wiki/Saint-Petersburg_State_University_of_Architecture_and_Civil_Engineering" class="mw-redirect" title="Saint-Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering">St. Petersburg University of Civil Engineering</a> in 1884. He worked a long time in construction department of Baku Gubernia administration.<sup id="cite_ref-Architects_19_35-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Architects_19-35"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></td> <td>Two-storied house (1888), the building of Saint Nina's School (now School №132 on <a href="/wiki/Istiglaliyyat_Street" title="Istiglaliyyat Street">Istiglaliyyat Street</a>), the building of Real school (now the building of <a href="/wiki/Azerbaijan_State_Economic_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Azerbaijan State Economic University">Azerbaijan State Economic University</a> on <a href="/wiki/Istiglaliyyat_Street" title="Istiglaliyyat Street">Istiglaliyyat Street</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-Architects_19_35-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Architects_19-35"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Sadig_Dadashov.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Sadig_Dadashov.jpg/150px-Sadig_Dadashov.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="216" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Sadig_Dadashov.jpg/225px-Sadig_Dadashov.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/Sadig_Dadashov.jpg 2x" data-file-width="270" data-file-height="389" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Sadig_Dadashov" class="mw-redirect" title="Sadig Dadashov">Sadig Dadashov</a></figcaption></figure></td> <td>Born on April 2 (15), 1905 in Baku. In 1929, he graduated from Azerbaijan State Oil Academy (afterwards he became its professor). He was the author of books about the architecture of Azerbaijan. He was a full member of the Academy of Sciences of the Azerbaijan SSR (1945). Sadiq Dadashov worked in close cooperation with M.A.Huseynov. He developed progressive traditions of Azerbaijani architecture creatively. Dadashov died in Moscow, on December 24, 1946.</td> <td>He erected many residential and public buildings in Baku and in other cities of Azerbaijan. Cinema named after <a href="/wiki/Nizami_Ganjavi" title="Nizami Ganjavi">Nizami</a> (1934), <a href="/wiki/Nizami_Museum_of_Azerbaijani_Literature" title="Nizami Museum of Azerbaijani Literature">Nizami Museum of Azerbaijani Literature</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> building of the <a href="/wiki/Central_Committee_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union">Central Committee of the Communist Party</a> of the Azerbaijan SSR (1938-1939), building of <a href="/wiki/Baku_Academy_of_Music" title="Baku Academy of Music">Baku Academy of Music</a> are his famous projects. </td></tr> <tr> <td><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Adolph_Eichler.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Adolph_Eichler.jpg/150px-Adolph_Eichler.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="229" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d0/Adolph_Eichler.jpg/225px-Adolph_Eichler.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/Adolph_Eichler.jpg 2x" data-file-width="263" data-file-height="401" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Adolf_Eichler" title="Adolf Eichler">Adolf Eichler</a></figcaption></figure></td> <td>Born November 8, 1869 — died 1911. He was a German civil architect.</td> <td>Eichler is best known for building the <a href="/wiki/Saviour%27s_Church,_Baku" class="mw-redirect" title="Saviour&#39;s Church, Baku">Saviour's Church</a> (at the age of 24) and participating in <a href="/wiki/Boulevard" title="Boulevard">boulevard</a> development, both in <a href="/wiki/Baku" title="Baku">Baku</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Goslawsky.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Goslawsky.jpg/150px-Goslawsky.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="192" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Goslawsky.jpg/225px-Goslawsky.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c2/Goslawsky.jpg 2x" data-file-width="238" data-file-height="304" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/J%C3%B3zef_Gos%C5%82awski_(architect)" title="Józef Gosławski (architect)">Józef Gosławski</a></figcaption></figure></td> <td>Born in <a href="/wiki/Congress_Poland" title="Congress Poland">Congress Poland</a> to a noble Polish family. In 1891, he graduated from the <a href="/wiki/Saint-Petersburg_State_University_of_Architecture_and_Civil_Engineering" class="mw-redirect" title="Saint-Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering">Institute of Civil Engineering</a> in <a href="/wiki/Saint_Petersburg" title="Saint Petersburg">Saint Petersburg</a>, and a year later he was appointed chief architect of the city of <a href="/wiki/Baku" title="Baku">Baku</a> (present-day capital of <a href="/wiki/Azerbaijan" title="Azerbaijan">Azerbaijan</a>). His first task was to assist the local architect <a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Marfeld&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Robert Marfeld (page does not exist)">Robert Marfeld</a> in designing and supervising the</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Nevsky_Cathedral,_Baku" title="Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Baku">Alexander Nevsky Cathedral</a>, <a href="/wiki/Taghiyev" title="Taghiyev">Taghiyev</a> Residence (present-day <a href="/wiki/Azerbaijan_State_Museum_of_History" class="mw-redirect" title="Azerbaijan State Museum of History">Azerbaijan State Museum of History</a>), the <a href="/wiki/Empress_Alexandra_Russian_Muslim_Boarding_School_for_Girls" title="Empress Alexandra Russian Muslim Boarding School for Girls">Empress Alexandra Russian Muslim Boarding School for Girls</a> (present-day Fuzuli Institute of Manuscripts of the <a href="/wiki/National_Academy_of_Sciences_of_Azerbaijan" class="mw-redirect" title="National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan">National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan</a>), City Duma (present-day <a href="/wiki/Mayoralty_of_Baku" class="mw-redirect" title="Mayoralty of Baku">Baku City Hall</a>), and a number of industrial buildings and houses. </td></tr> <tr> <td><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Gasim_bey_Hajibababeyov.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Gasim_bey_Hajibababeyov.jpg/150px-Gasim_bey_Hajibababeyov.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="205" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/Gasim_bey_Hajibababeyov.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="188" data-file-height="257" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Gasim_bey_Hajibababeyov" title="Gasim bey Hajibababeyov">Gasim bey Hajibababeyov</a></figcaption></figure></td> <td>Born in 1812, in Sarytorpaq village of Shamakhi. He got his primary education at mollah. His father and elder brother Semed bey also were architects. Gasim bey was the first among the Caucasians who worked in governmental and public organizations in the sphere of architecture and urban planning. From 1848, he worked as an assistant of a province architect of Shamakhi. In 1856, he became the architect of Shamakhi province. Since 1860 till 1868, he became the chief architect of Baku and from 1868 till the end of his life was the chief architect of Shamakhi.</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Baku_Boulevard" title="Baku Boulevard">Baku Boulevard</a> – 1860-1861,<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Tsitsianov square – 1860, Two-storeyed <a href="/wiki/Caravanserai" title="Caravanserai">caravanserai</a> – 1860s (At present - <a href="/wiki/Nizami_Museum_of_Azerbaijani_Literature" title="Nizami Museum of Azerbaijani Literature">Nizami Museum of Azerbaijani Literature</a>), Two-storeyed caravanserai – 1870s (Vorontsovskaya Street 1, now - Safarli Street), Residential houses in Krivaya street (now - Fountain Square) – 1870s,<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Building of "Araz" cinema,<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Fountains_Square,_Baku" title="Fountains Square, Baku">Fountains square</a><sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mammad_Hasan_Hajinski_2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Mammad_Hasan_Hajinski_2.jpg/150px-Mammad_Hasan_Hajinski_2.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="219" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Mammad_Hasan_Hajinski_2.jpg/225px-Mammad_Hasan_Hajinski_2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/Mammad_Hasan_Hajinski_2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="272" data-file-height="398" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Mammad_Hasan_Hajinski" title="Mammad Hasan Hajinski">Mammad Hasan Hajinski</a></figcaption></figure></td> <td>Hajinski was born on March 3, 1875. He graduated from Baku Realny School and then St. Petersburg Technical School in 1902 with an engineering degree. He worked at construction of a Russian oil refinery being built by Azerbaijani businessman Shamsi Asadullayev before he moved back to Azerbaijan and was appointed the director of construction department of Baku municipality. One of notable designers employed by Hajinski was Adolf Eichler</td> <td>During the time Hajinski held the position of the director of construction department of Baku municipality, he made significant contributions to architectural improvements of Baku. Under his management, construction of <a href="/wiki/Baku_Seaside_Boulevard" class="mw-redirect" title="Baku Seaside Boulevard">Baku Seaside Boulevard</a> gained a new impetus in 1910, when at his insistence, the Municipal Parliament passed a bill allocating 60,000 rubles for improvements. </td></tr> <tr> <td><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Mikayil_Useynov.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Mikayil_Useynov.jpg/150px-Mikayil_Useynov.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="203" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Mikayil_Useynov.jpg/225px-Mikayil_Useynov.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Mikayil_Useynov.jpg/300px-Mikayil_Useynov.jpg 2x" data-file-width="575" data-file-height="780" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Mikayil_Useynov" class="mw-redirect" title="Mikayil Useynov">Mikayil Useynov</a></figcaption></figure></td> <td>Huseynov was born on 19 April 1905, in <a href="/wiki/Baku" title="Baku">Baku</a>, in a well-off family. His father was a millionaire, had streamships on the <a href="/wiki/Caspian_Sea" title="Caspian Sea">Caspian Sea</a> and a great mansion on the seafront. His origination hang over him as the sword of <a href="/wiki/Damocles" title="Damocles">Damocles</a> and he could be arrested at any time. Until 1946, he worked in close creative and scientific cooperation with S.A. Dadashov. He died on October 7, 1992, and was buried in the <a href="/wiki/Alley_of_Honor" title="Alley of Honor">Alley of Honor</a> in <a href="/wiki/Baku" title="Baku">Baku</a>.</td> <td>Building of the <a href="/wiki/Central_Committee" class="mw-redirect" title="Central Committee">Central Committee</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Communist_Party_of_the_Soviet_Union" title="Communist Party of the Soviet Union">Communist Party</a> of <a href="/wiki/Azerbaijan" title="Azerbaijan">Azerbaijan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Baku_Academy_of_Music" title="Baku Academy of Music">Azerbaijan State Conservatory</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nizami_Museum_of_Azerbaijan_Literature" class="mw-redirect" title="Nizami Museum of Azerbaijan Literature">Nizami Museum of Azerbaijan Literature</a> in Baku, pavilion of <a href="/wiki/All-Russia_Exhibition_Centre" class="mw-redirect" title="All-Russia Exhibition Centre">All-Russia Exhibition Centre</a> of Azerbaijan in <a href="/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow">Moscow</a> (1939 and 1954), group of buildings of the <a href="/wiki/Azerbaijan_National_Academy_of_Sciences" title="Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences">Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences</a> (1951–1966) </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Mashadi_Mirza_Gafar_Ismayilov" title="Mashadi Mirza Gafar Ismayilov">Mashadi Mirza Gafar Ismayilov</a></td> <td>Student of Hajibababayov. In 1868 – 1898 years he mainly did private practice. Prolific architect and a great graphic designers.<sup id="cite_ref-Architects_19_35-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Architects_19-35"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></td> <td>House in Tazapirskaya Street (1885), two-storied house in Surakhanskaya Street (1886), two-storied house in Kolyubakinskaya Street (1887), two-storied house in Gubernskaya Street (1887), one-storied house in Persidskaya Street (1887), two-storied house in Tazapirskaya Street (1898), two-storied house in <a href="/wiki/Istiglaliyyat_Street" title="Istiglaliyyat Street">Nikolayevskaya Street</a> (1890) etc.<sup id="cite_ref-Architects_19_35-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Architects_19-35"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Anton_Kandinov.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Anton_Kandinov.jpg/150px-Anton_Kandinov.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="174" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Anton_Kandinov.jpg/225px-Anton_Kandinov.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Anton_Kandinov.jpg/300px-Anton_Kandinov.jpg 2x" data-file-width="452" data-file-height="525" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Anton_Kandinov" title="Anton Kandinov">Anton Kandinov</a></figcaption></figure></td> <td></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hovhannes_Katchaznouni.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Hovhannes_Katchaznouni.JPG/150px-Hovhannes_Katchaznouni.JPG" decoding="async" width="150" height="164" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Hovhannes_Katchaznouni.JPG/225px-Hovhannes_Katchaznouni.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Hovhannes_Katchaznouni.JPG/300px-Hovhannes_Katchaznouni.JPG 2x" data-file-width="324" data-file-height="355" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Hovhannes_Katchaznouni" class="mw-redirect" title="Hovhannes Katchaznouni">Hovhannes Katchaznouni</a></figcaption></figure> </td> <td>Born 1868 <a href="/wiki/Akhaltsikhe" title="Akhaltsikhe">Akhaltsikhe</a>, <a href="/wiki/Georgia_(country)" title="Georgia (country)">Georgia</a> – died <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a> 1938. Of <a href="/wiki/Armenians" title="Armenians">Armenian</a> descent, he graduated with honors from <a href="/wiki/Saint-Petersburg_State_University_of_Architecture_and_Civil_Engineering" class="mw-redirect" title="Saint-Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering">St. Petersburg Institute of Civil Engineering</a> in 1893.<sup id="cite_ref-Our_Baku:_Hovhannes_Katchaznouni_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Our_Baku:_Hovhannes_Katchaznouni-49"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He eventually became the first Prime Minister of <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Republic_of_Armenia" class="mw-redirect" title="Democratic Republic of Armenia">Armenia</a> in 1918.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></td> <td>Built a hospital, apartment houses, a hotel in <a href="/wiki/Balakhany" class="mw-redirect" title="Balakhany">Balakhany</a>, and assisted in the construction of the <a href="/wiki/Saint_Thaddeus_and_Bartholomew_Cathedral" title="Saint Thaddeus and Bartholomew Cathedral">Saint Thaddeus and Bartholomew Armenian Cathedral</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Our_Baku:_Hovhannes_Katchaznouni_49-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Our_Baku:_Hovhannes_Katchaznouni-49"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Talat_Khanlarov.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Talat_Khanlarov.jpg/150px-Talat_Khanlarov.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="213" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Talat_Khanlarov.jpg/225px-Talat_Khanlarov.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/84/Talat_Khanlarov.jpg/300px-Talat_Khanlarov.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1080" data-file-height="1531" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Talaat_Khanlarov" title="Talaat Khanlarov">Talaat Khanlarov</a></figcaption></figure></td> <td>Born 1927. Academician of <a href="/wiki/Azerbaijan_National_Academy_of_Sciences" title="Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences">Academy of Science of Azerbaijan</a>, Honored Architect of Azerbaijan (1975), Vice-President of the International Academy of Architecture of the East.<sup id="cite_ref-Авалов_29-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Авалов-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></td> <td>The building of <a href="/wiki/Heydar_Aliyev_Sports_and_Exhibition_Complex" class="mw-redirect" title="Heydar Aliyev Sports and Exhibition Complex">Heydar Aliyev Sports and Exhibition Complex</a> (with Tahir Abdullayev and Y. Qadimov), Imam Rza mosque in Sabunchi district, mosque in Narimanov district, the building of <a href="/wiki/Memar_%C6%8Fc%C9%99mi_(Baku_Metro)" class="mw-redirect" title="Memar Əcəmi (Baku Metro)">Memar Əcəmi</a> metro station.<sup id="cite_ref-Авалов_29-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Авалов-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Hasan_Majidov" title="Hasan Majidov">Hasan Majidov</a></td> <td></td> <td>The building of the Museum center. </td></tr> <tr> <td><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:%D0%9D._%D0%90._%D1%84%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80_%D0%9D%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B5.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/%D0%9D._%D0%90._%D1%84%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80_%D0%9D%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B5.jpg/150px-%D0%9D._%D0%90._%D1%84%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80_%D0%9D%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B5.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="243" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7d/%D0%9D._%D0%90._%D1%84%D0%BE%D0%BD_%D0%B4%D0%B5%D1%80_%D0%9D%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%BD%D0%B5.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="211" data-file-height="342" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Nikolaus_von_der_Nonne" title="Nikolaus von der Nonne">Nikolaus von der Nonne</a></figcaption></figure></td> <td>Born 1836 — died 1906. He was a German civil architect.</td> <td>Nikolaus von der Nonne is best known for building the first building of <a href="/wiki/National_Art_Museum_of_Azerbaijan" title="National Art Museum of Azerbaijan">National Art Museum of Azerbaijan</a> in <a href="/wiki/Baku" title="Baku">Baku</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ploszko.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Ploszko.jpg/150px-Ploszko.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="201" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Ploszko.jpg/225px-Ploszko.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5f/Ploszko.jpg/300px-Ploszko.jpg 2x" data-file-width="359" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/J%C3%B3zef_P%C5%82oszko" title="Józef Płoszko">Józef Płoszko</a></figcaption></figure></td> <td>Józef Płoszko was born in 1867. He studied at the <a href="/wiki/Imperial_Academy_of_Arts" title="Imperial Academy of Arts">Russian Imperial Academy of Arts</a>, but soon left it and joined the <a href="/wiki/Saint_Petersburg" title="Saint Petersburg">St. Petersburg</a> University of Civil Engineers. After graduation in 1895, Płoszko was sent to <a href="/wiki/Kiev" class="mw-redirect" title="Kiev">Kiev</a>. Working there for two years, he moved to Baku at the invitation of another Polish architect <a href="/wiki/J%C3%B3zef_Gos%C5%82awski_(architect)" title="Józef Gosławski (architect)">Józef Goslawski</a> and took place of local architect at construction department of the Baku city administration. He later became the chief architect of Baku.</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ismailiyya_building" class="mw-redirect" title="Ismailiyya building">Ismailiyya</a> building, <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic</a> <a href="/wiki/Poland" title="Poland">Polish</a> church (kostel) in Baku, Catholic <a href="/wiki/Church_of_the_Immaculate_Conception,_Baku" title="Church of the Immaculate Conception, Baku">Church of Blessed Virgin Mary</a> in Baku, the construction of which was finished in 1912, <a href="/wiki/Palace_of_Happiness" title="Palace of Happiness">Palace of Happiness</a>, Kerbalayi Israfil Hajiyev on Shemakhinskaya Street, building of <a href="/wiki/Baku_Puppet_Theatre" title="Baku Puppet Theatre">Baku Puppet Theatre</a> (1908), six-storeyed building of “New Europe” hotel on Qoncharovskaya Street (now <a href="/wiki/Zeynalabdin_Taghiyev" title="Zeynalabdin Taghiyev">Taghiyev</a> Street), was the last work of Józef Płoszko before the <a href="/wiki/World_War_I" title="World War I">World War I</a>. </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Anvar_Gasimzade" title="Anvar Gasimzade">Anvar Gasimzade</a></td> <td>Born 1912 – died 1969. Since 1967 he was corresponding member of <a href="/wiki/Azerbaijan_National_Academy_of_Sciences" title="Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences">Academy of Science of Azerbaijan</a></td> <td>The building of Oil and Gas Research and Design Institute (1956), the building of <a href="/wiki/Ulduz_(Baku_Metro)" title="Ulduz (Baku Metro)">Ulduz</a> metro station </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Rotinoff" title="Alexander Rotinoff">Alexander Rotinoff</a></td> <td>Worked throughout the Caucasus. Of <a href="/wiki/Armenians" title="Armenians">Armenian</a> descent, in early 20th century, Alexander Rotinoff moved to Great Britain with his family and son – Mikhail Aleksander Rotinoff. Mikhail's son Gabriel Rotinoff founded Rotinoff Motors Ltd. at <a href="/wiki/Colnbrook" title="Colnbrook">Colnbrook</a> near <a href="/wiki/Slough" title="Slough">Slough</a> in 1952.</td> <td>Together with Gavriil Ter-Mikelov he assisted in the construction of the Armenian church of Thadeus and Bartholomew in 1901.<sup id="cite_ref-Activity_of_Armenian_Architects_in_South_Caucasus:_pg._264_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Activity_of_Armenian_Architects_in_South_Caucasus:_pg._264-51"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:VSargsyan.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/cb/VSargsyan.jpg/150px-VSargsyan.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="194" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/cb/VSargsyan.jpg/225px-VSargsyan.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/cb/VSargsyan.jpg/300px-VSargsyan.jpg 2x" data-file-width="463" data-file-height="599" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Vartan_Sarkisov" title="Vartan Sarkisov">Vartan Stepan Sarkisov (Sargsyan)</a></figcaption></figure></td> <td>Born <a href="/wiki/Shusha" title="Shusha">Shusha</a>, <a href="/wiki/Karabakh" title="Karabakh">Karabakh</a> March 8, 1875 – died <a href="/wiki/Baku" title="Baku">Baku</a>, <a href="/wiki/Azerbaijan_SSR" class="mw-redirect" title="Azerbaijan SSR">Azerbaijan SSR</a> March 29, 1955. Of <a href="/wiki/Armenians" title="Armenians">Armenian</a> descent, having graduated Realschule in <a href="/wiki/Tbilisi" title="Tbilisi">Tbilisi</a>, Sarkisov moved to St. Petersburg and entered the <a href="/wiki/Saint-Petersburg_State_University_of_Architecture_and_Civil_Engineering" class="mw-redirect" title="Saint-Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering">St. Petersburg Institute of Civil Engineering</a>. In 1907 he moved to Baku and immediately received request for a series of projects. His architectural style was modern. Later on in his career, he switched to <a href="/wiki/Neoclassicism" title="Neoclassicism">neoclassicism</a>. Vartan Sarkisov died in Baku on March 29, 1955, and is buried in the Christian-Jewish <i>Nariman</i> Cemetery. In September 2007, the local Azerbaijani government ordered to destroy the Nariman Cemetery.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></td> <td>Constructed the Oil Producers Sanatorium building in <a href="/wiki/Mardakan" class="mw-redirect" title="Mardakan">Mardakan</a> (1930), a male gymnasium, Residence on Krasnovodskaya street (1908; today Torgovaya (<a href="/wiki/Nizami_Street" title="Nizami Street">Nizami</a>) Street and Samad Vurghun Avenue intersection; this building is also where <a href="/wiki/Lev_Landau" title="Lev Landau">Lev Landau</a> was born), reconstructed the <a href="/wiki/Ismailiyya_building" class="mw-redirect" title="Ismailiyya building">Ismailiyya building</a> which was burned during the <a href="/wiki/March_Days" title="March Days">March Days</a> in 1918, residence of the Mirzabekov brothers in <a href="/wiki/Istiglaliyyat_Street" title="Istiglaliyyat Street">Nikolayevskaya street</a> (1908), and the Residence of Tigran Melikov (Khagani Street, 27).<sup id="cite_ref-Activity_of_Armenian_Architects_in_South_Caucasus_26-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Activity_of_Armenian_Architects_in_South_Caucasus-26"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Eugeniusz_Skibi%C5%84ski.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Eugeniusz_Skibi%C5%84ski.jpg/150px-Eugeniusz_Skibi%C5%84ski.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="215" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/Eugeniusz_Skibi%C5%84ski.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="193" data-file-height="277" /></a><figcaption><a href="/w/index.php?title=Eugeniusz_Skibi%C5%84ski&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Eugeniusz Skibiński (page does not exist)">Eugeniusz Skibiński</a></figcaption></figure></td> <td></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Martin Levon Tovmasyan</td> <td>Born Martin <a href="/wiki/Yerevan" title="Yerevan">Yerevan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Armenia_SSR" class="mw-redirect" title="Armenia SSR">Armenia SSR</a>, March 5, 1925 – died <a href="/wiki/Yerevan" title="Yerevan">Yerevan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Armenia" title="Armenia">Armenia</a> 2008. Of <a href="/wiki/Armenians" title="Armenians">Armenian</a> descent, in 1949 he graduated from <a href="/wiki/Azerbaijan_Industrial_Institute" class="mw-redirect" title="Azerbaijan Industrial Institute">Azerbaijan Industrial Institute</a>. He was a student of Vartan Sarkisov. He was awarded as Honored Architect of Armenia on May 28, 2007.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></td> <td>Constructed the general layout of the <a href="/wiki/Dyubendi" class="mw-redirect" title="Dyubendi">Dyubendi</a> village, 26 Commissars Metro Station (today Sahil station), Reception House and Hotel of Azerbaijan Council of Ministers, <a href="/wiki/Green_Theatre" title="Green Theatre">Green Theatre</a>, and assisted in the construction of the Lenin Palace (Today <a href="/wiki/Heydar_Aliyev_Palace" title="Heydar Aliyev Palace">Heydar Aliyev Palace</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-Activity_of_Armenian_Architects_in_South_Caucasus_26-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Activity_of_Armenian_Architects_in_South_Caucasus-26"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Gabriel_Ter-Mikelov.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Gabriel_Ter-Mikelov.jpg/150px-Gabriel_Ter-Mikelov.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="193" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ef/Gabriel_Ter-Mikelov.jpg/225px-Gabriel_Ter-Mikelov.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/Gabriel_Ter-Mikelov.jpg 2x" data-file-width="300" data-file-height="385" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Gavriil_Ter-Mikelov" class="mw-redirect" title="Gavriil Ter-Mikelov">Gavril Mikhaylovich Ter-Mikelov (Gabriel Ter-Mikaelian)</a></figcaption></figure></td> <td>Born <a href="/wiki/Stavropol" title="Stavropol">Stavropol</a>, <a href="/wiki/Russia" title="Russia">Russia</a> April 16, 1874 – died <a href="/wiki/Tbilisi" title="Tbilisi">Tbilisi</a>, <a href="/wiki/Georgia_SSR" class="mw-redirect" title="Georgia SSR">Georgia SSR</a> January 14, 1949. Of <a href="/wiki/Armenians" title="Armenians">Armenian</a> descent, in 1893 he studied at the <a href="/wiki/Saint-Petersburg_State_University_of_Architecture_and_Civil_Engineering" class="mw-redirect" title="Saint-Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering">St. Petersburg Institute of Civil Engineering</a>. He graduated the institute in 1899. He moved to Baku where he lived and worked till 1912. He died January 14, 1949, and is buried in the Armenian Vera Cemetery in <a href="/wiki/Tbilisi" title="Tbilisi">Tbilisi</a>.</td> <td>Designed Baku Public Club Building (today <a href="/wiki/Azerbaijan_State_Philharmonic_Hall" class="mw-redirect" title="Azerbaijan State Philharmonic Hall">Azerbaijan State Philharmonic Hall</a>), the maternity hospital (1899), the building of the Baku branch of the Tiflis Trade Bank (1902–1903; today “Children's World” department store), the Adamoff Brothers residence, the Sadikhov Residence (1910–1912; Nikolaev street house number 1; SSR number 21), Physiotherapy Institute, Four-storey Apartment ordered by <a href="/wiki/Taghiyev" title="Taghiyev">Taghiyev</a> (Nizam 30, crossroads with Mariinskaya Street), and the Commercial College (1905–1913; Merkurevskaya Street 39).<sup id="cite_ref-Activity_of_Armenian_Architects_in_South_Caucasus_26-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Activity_of_Armenian_Architects_in_South_Caucasus-26"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He was also one of the main architects of the Saint Thaddeus and Bartholomew Armenian Cathedral.<sup id="cite_ref-Activity_of_Armenian_Architects_in_South_Caucasus:_pg._264_51-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Activity_of_Armenian_Architects_in_South_Caucasus:_pg._264-51"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td></tr> <tr> <td><figure class="mw-halign-center" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Nikanor_Tverdokhlebov.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Nikanor_Tverdokhlebov.JPG/150px-Nikanor_Tverdokhlebov.JPG" decoding="async" width="150" height="181" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Nikanor_Tverdokhlebov.JPG/225px-Nikanor_Tverdokhlebov.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/Nikanor_Tverdokhlebov.JPG/300px-Nikanor_Tverdokhlebov.JPG 2x" data-file-width="406" data-file-height="490" /></a><figcaption><a href="/w/index.php?title=Nikanor_Tverdokhlebov&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Nikanor Tverdokhlebov (page does not exist)">Nikanor Tverdokhlebov</a></figcaption></figure></td> <td></td> <td> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Gallery_2">Gallery</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Architecture_of_Baku&amp;action=edit&amp;section=11" title="Edit section: Gallery"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Azerbaijan_Monument.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Taza Pir Mosque. Built by Zivar bey Ahmadbeyov (1905-1908)"><img alt="Taza Pir Mosque. Built by Zivar bey Ahmadbeyov (1905-1908)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Azerbaijan_Monument.jpg/80px-Azerbaijan_Monument.jpg" decoding="async" width="80" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Azerbaijan_Monument.jpg/120px-Azerbaijan_Monument.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/89/Azerbaijan_Monument.jpg/160px-Azerbaijan_Monument.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2592" data-file-height="3872" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Taza_Pir_Mosque" title="Taza Pir Mosque">Taza Pir Mosque</a>. Built by <a href="/wiki/Zivar_bey_Ahmadbeyov" class="mw-redirect" title="Zivar bey Ahmadbeyov">Zivar bey Ahmadbeyov</a> (1905-1908)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Ajdarbey_mosque_in_Baku.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Ajdarbey Mosque. Built by Zivar bey Ahmadbeyov (1912-1913)"><img alt="Ajdarbey Mosque. Built by Zivar bey Ahmadbeyov (1912-1913)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Ajdarbey_mosque_in_Baku.jpg/106px-Ajdarbey_mosque_in_Baku.jpg" decoding="async" width="106" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Ajdarbey_mosque_in_Baku.jpg/159px-Ajdarbey_mosque_in_Baku.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/Ajdarbey_mosque_in_Baku.jpg/211px-Ajdarbey_mosque_in_Baku.jpg 2x" data-file-width="481" data-file-height="546" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Ajdarbey Mosque. Built by <a href="/wiki/Zivar_bey_Ahmadbeyov" class="mw-redirect" title="Zivar bey Ahmadbeyov">Zivar bey Ahmadbeyov</a> (1912-1913)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Parapet_square_in_Baku.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Parapet Square designed by Gasim bey Hajibababeyov"><img alt="Parapet Square designed by Gasim bey Hajibababeyov" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Parapet_square_in_Baku.jpg/120px-Parapet_square_in_Baku.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="73" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Parapet_square_in_Baku.jpg/180px-Parapet_square_in_Baku.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Parapet_square_in_Baku.jpg/240px-Parapet_square_in_Baku.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="487" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Fountains_Square,_Baku" title="Fountains Square, Baku">Parapet Square</a> designed by <a href="/wiki/Gasim_bey_Hajibababeyov" title="Gasim bey Hajibababeyov">Gasim bey Hajibababeyov</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Hotel_Metropol_in_Baku.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Two-storeyed caravanserai. Built by Gasim bey Hajibababeyov"><img alt="Two-storeyed caravanserai. Built by Gasim bey Hajibababeyov" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Hotel_Metropol_in_Baku.jpg/120px-Hotel_Metropol_in_Baku.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="76" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Hotel_Metropol_in_Baku.jpg/180px-Hotel_Metropol_in_Baku.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Hotel_Metropol_in_Baku.jpg/240px-Hotel_Metropol_in_Baku.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1191" data-file-height="752" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Two-storeyed caravanserai. Built by Gasim bey Hajibababeyov</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Azerbaijan_State_Philharmonic_Hall_2006.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Azerbaijan State Philharmonic Hall constructed by Gavriil Ter-Mikelov."><img alt="Azerbaijan State Philharmonic Hall constructed by Gavriil Ter-Mikelov." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Azerbaijan_State_Philharmonic_Hall_2006.jpg/120px-Azerbaijan_State_Philharmonic_Hall_2006.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Azerbaijan_State_Philharmonic_Hall_2006.jpg/180px-Azerbaijan_State_Philharmonic_Hall_2006.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Azerbaijan_State_Philharmonic_Hall_2006.jpg/240px-Azerbaijan_State_Philharmonic_Hall_2006.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3072" data-file-height="2304" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Azerbaijan_State_Philharmonic_Hall" class="mw-redirect" title="Azerbaijan State Philharmonic Hall">Azerbaijan State Philharmonic Hall</a> constructed by Gavriil Ter-Mikelov.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Edificio_en_Baku,_Azerbaiy%C3%A1n,_2016-09-26,_DD_48.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Sadikhov Residence in Baku (1910–1912) designed by Gavriil Ter-Mikelov."><img alt="Sadikhov Residence in Baku (1910–1912) designed by Gavriil Ter-Mikelov." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Edificio_en_Baku%2C_Azerbaiy%C3%A1n%2C_2016-09-26%2C_DD_48.jpg/65px-Edificio_en_Baku%2C_Azerbaiy%C3%A1n%2C_2016-09-26%2C_DD_48.jpg" decoding="async" width="65" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Edificio_en_Baku%2C_Azerbaiy%C3%A1n%2C_2016-09-26%2C_DD_48.jpg/97px-Edificio_en_Baku%2C_Azerbaiy%C3%A1n%2C_2016-09-26%2C_DD_48.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Edificio_en_Baku%2C_Azerbaiy%C3%A1n%2C_2016-09-26%2C_DD_48.jpg/129px-Edificio_en_Baku%2C_Azerbaiy%C3%A1n%2C_2016-09-26%2C_DD_48.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4145" data-file-height="7669" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Sadikhov Residence in Baku (1910–1912) designed by Gavriil Ter-Mikelov.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Baku_Physiotherapy_Institute.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Physiotherapy Institute of Baku designed by Gavriil Ter-Mikelov (1929)"><img alt="Physiotherapy Institute of Baku designed by Gavriil Ter-Mikelov (1929)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Baku_Physiotherapy_Institute.jpg/120px-Baku_Physiotherapy_Institute.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="82" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Baku_Physiotherapy_Institute.jpg/180px-Baku_Physiotherapy_Institute.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Baku_Physiotherapy_Institute.jpg/240px-Baku_Physiotherapy_Institute.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="412" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Physiotherapy Institute of Baku designed by Gavriil Ter-Mikelov (1929)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Trade_School,_1904_Baku.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Commercial College of Baku designed by Gavriil Ter-Mikelov (1913)"><img alt="Commercial College of Baku designed by Gavriil Ter-Mikelov (1913)" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Trade_School%2C_1904_Baku.jpg/120px-Trade_School%2C_1904_Baku.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="114" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Trade_School%2C_1904_Baku.jpg/180px-Trade_School%2C_1904_Baku.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f2/Trade_School%2C_1904_Baku.jpg/240px-Trade_School%2C_1904_Baku.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="570" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Commercial College of Baku designed by Gavriil Ter-Mikelov (1913)</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Residential_building_brothers_Adamyan_Street_Baratinskaya,_1908.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="The dwelling house of Adamyan brothers (1908) in Baratinskaya street designed by Gavriil Ter-Mikelov."><img alt="The dwelling house of Adamyan brothers (1908) in Baratinskaya street designed by Gavriil Ter-Mikelov." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Residential_building_brothers_Adamyan_Street_Baratinskaya%2C_1908.jpg/72px-Residential_building_brothers_Adamyan_Street_Baratinskaya%2C_1908.jpg" decoding="async" width="72" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Residential_building_brothers_Adamyan_Street_Baratinskaya%2C_1908.jpg/108px-Residential_building_brothers_Adamyan_Street_Baratinskaya%2C_1908.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/01/Residential_building_brothers_Adamyan_Street_Baratinskaya%2C_1908.jpg/144px-Residential_building_brothers_Adamyan_Street_Baratinskaya%2C_1908.jpg 2x" data-file-width="360" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">The dwelling house of Adamyan brothers (1908) in Baratinskaya street designed by Gavriil Ter-Mikelov.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Tiflis_bank_in_Baku_today.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Baku Commercial Bank (1901) designed by Gavriil Ter-Mikelov."><img alt="Baku Commercial Bank (1901) designed by Gavriil Ter-Mikelov." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Tiflis_bank_in_Baku_today.jpg/115px-Tiflis_bank_in_Baku_today.jpg" decoding="async" width="115" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Tiflis_bank_in_Baku_today.jpg/172px-Tiflis_bank_in_Baku_today.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Tiflis_bank_in_Baku_today.jpg/230px-Tiflis_bank_in_Baku_today.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2304" data-file-height="2407" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Baku Commercial Bank (1901) designed by Gavriil Ter-Mikelov.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Palace_of_De_Bur.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="First building of the National Art Museum of Azerbaijan designed by Nikolaus von der Nonne."><img alt="First building of the National Art Museum of Azerbaijan designed by Nikolaus von der Nonne." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Palace_of_De_Bur.JPG/120px-Palace_of_De_Bur.JPG" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Palace_of_De_Bur.JPG/180px-Palace_of_De_Bur.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Palace_of_De_Bur.JPG/240px-Palace_of_De_Bur.JPG 2x" data-file-width="4752" data-file-height="3168" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">First building of the <a href="/wiki/National_Art_Museum_of_Azerbaijan" title="National Art Museum of Azerbaijan">National Art Museum of Azerbaijan</a> designed by Nikolaus von der Nonne.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:4_n%C3%B6mr%C9%99li_x%C9%99ct%C9%99xana.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Building of Hospital designed by Konstantin Borisoglebskiy."><img alt="Building of Hospital designed by Konstantin Borisoglebskiy." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/4_n%C3%B6mr%C9%99li_x%C9%99ct%C9%99xana.JPG/120px-4_n%C3%B6mr%C9%99li_x%C9%99ct%C9%99xana.JPG" decoding="async" width="120" height="78" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/4_n%C3%B6mr%C9%99li_x%C9%99ct%C9%99xana.JPG/180px-4_n%C3%B6mr%C9%99li_x%C9%99ct%C9%99xana.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/4_n%C3%B6mr%C9%99li_x%C9%99ct%C9%99xana.JPG/240px-4_n%C3%B6mr%C9%99li_x%C9%99ct%C9%99xana.JPG 2x" data-file-width="4649" data-file-height="3022" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Building of Hospital designed by Konstantin Borisoglebskiy.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Azerbaijan_State_Economic_University_main_building.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="The main building of Azerbaijan State Economic University designed by Dmitriy Buynov."><img alt="The main building of Azerbaijan State Economic University designed by Dmitriy Buynov." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Azerbaijan_State_Economic_University_main_building.jpg/120px-Azerbaijan_State_Economic_University_main_building.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="93" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Azerbaijan_State_Economic_University_main_building.jpg/180px-Azerbaijan_State_Economic_University_main_building.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Azerbaijan_State_Economic_University_main_building.jpg/240px-Azerbaijan_State_Economic_University_main_building.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="796" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">The main building of <a href="/wiki/Azerbaijan_State_Economic_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Azerbaijan State Economic University">Azerbaijan State Economic University</a> designed by Dmitriy Buynov.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Saint_Nina_school.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="The building of Saint Nina&#39;s school (now the building of the school №132) designed by Dmitriy Buynov."><img alt="The building of Saint Nina&#39;s school (now the building of the school №132) designed by Dmitriy Buynov." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Saint_Nina_school.jpg/120px-Saint_Nina_school.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="73" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Saint_Nina_school.jpg/180px-Saint_Nina_school.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Saint_Nina_school.jpg/240px-Saint_Nina_school.jpg 2x" data-file-width="800" data-file-height="484" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">The building of Saint Nina's school (now the building of the school №132) designed by Dmitriy Buynov.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Building_on_24_Murtuza_Mukhtarov_Street.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="The Building of the Union of Architects of Azerbaijan. Built in 1899 by Eugeniusz Skibiński.[64]"><img alt="The Building of the Union of Architects of Azerbaijan. Built in 1899 by Eugeniusz Skibiński.[64]" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Building_on_24_Murtuza_Mukhtarov_Street.jpg/120px-Building_on_24_Murtuza_Mukhtarov_Street.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Building_on_24_Murtuza_Mukhtarov_Street.jpg/180px-Building_on_24_Murtuza_Mukhtarov_Street.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0b/Building_on_24_Murtuza_Mukhtarov_Street.jpg/240px-Building_on_24_Murtuza_Mukhtarov_Street.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3264" data-file-height="2448" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">The Building of the Union of Architects of Azerbaijan. Built in 1899 by Eugeniusz Skibiński.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Budagovsky_armenian_temple_in_Baku2.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Saint Thaddeus and Bartholomew Armenian Church constructed by Alexander Rotinyan, Gabriel Ter-Mikayelian, and Hovhannes Katchaznouni. Destroyed in the 1930s."><img alt="Saint Thaddeus and Bartholomew Armenian Church constructed by Alexander Rotinyan, Gabriel Ter-Mikayelian, and Hovhannes Katchaznouni. Destroyed in the 1930s." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Budagovsky_armenian_temple_in_Baku2.jpg/91px-Budagovsky_armenian_temple_in_Baku2.jpg" decoding="async" width="91" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Budagovsky_armenian_temple_in_Baku2.jpg/136px-Budagovsky_armenian_temple_in_Baku2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Budagovsky_armenian_temple_in_Baku2.jpg/181px-Budagovsky_armenian_temple_in_Baku2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="450" data-file-height="595" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Saint Thaddeus and Bartholomew Armenian Church constructed by <a href="/wiki/Alexander_Rotinyan" class="mw-redirect" title="Alexander Rotinyan">Alexander Rotinyan</a>, Gabriel Ter-Mikayelian, and <a href="/wiki/Hovhannes_Katchaznouni" class="mw-redirect" title="Hovhannes Katchaznouni">Hovhannes Katchaznouni</a>. Destroyed in the 1930s.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Az%C9%99rbaycan_D%C3%B6vl%C9%99t_Opera_v%C9%99_Balet_Teatr%C4%B1.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Azerbaijan State Opera Theatre (formerly known as The Great Theater of the Mayilyan Brothers) constructed by Nikolai Bayev (1910–11)."><img alt="Azerbaijan State Opera Theatre (formerly known as The Great Theater of the Mayilyan Brothers) constructed by Nikolai Bayev (1910–11)." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Az%C9%99rbaycan_D%C3%B6vl%C9%99t_Opera_v%C9%99_Balet_Teatr%C4%B1.jpg/120px-Az%C9%99rbaycan_D%C3%B6vl%C9%99t_Opera_v%C9%99_Balet_Teatr%C4%B1.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Az%C9%99rbaycan_D%C3%B6vl%C9%99t_Opera_v%C9%99_Balet_Teatr%C4%B1.jpg/180px-Az%C9%99rbaycan_D%C3%B6vl%C9%99t_Opera_v%C9%99_Balet_Teatr%C4%B1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Az%C9%99rbaycan_D%C3%B6vl%C9%99t_Opera_v%C9%99_Balet_Teatr%C4%B1.jpg/240px-Az%C9%99rbaycan_D%C3%B6vl%C9%99t_Opera_v%C9%99_Balet_Teatr%C4%B1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5184" data-file-height="3456" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Azerbaijan_State_Opera_Theatre" class="mw-redirect" title="Azerbaijan State Opera Theatre">Azerbaijan State Opera Theatre</a> (formerly known as The Great Theater of the Mayilyan Brothers) constructed by <a href="/wiki/Nikolai_Bayev" title="Nikolai Bayev">Nikolai Bayev</a> (1910–11).</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Semietagka_Baku.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="The house of Mirzabekov (Mirzabekyan) brothers on Nikolayevskaya street (today Istiglaliyyat Street), designed by Vartan Sarkisov"><img alt="The house of Mirzabekov (Mirzabekyan) brothers on Nikolayevskaya street (today Istiglaliyyat Street), designed by Vartan Sarkisov" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Semietagka_Baku.JPG/120px-Semietagka_Baku.JPG" decoding="async" width="120" height="83" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Semietagka_Baku.JPG/180px-Semietagka_Baku.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Semietagka_Baku.JPG/240px-Semietagka_Baku.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2561" data-file-height="1772" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">The house of Mirzabekov (Mirzabekyan) brothers on Nikolayevskaya street (today <a href="/wiki/Istiglaliyyat_Street" title="Istiglaliyyat Street">Istiglaliyyat Street</a>), designed by Vartan Sarkisov</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Vokzal_Baku_1930.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Sabunchi Railroad Station built by Nikolai Bayev (1927; today world&#39;s largest KFC).[41]"><img alt="Sabunchi Railroad Station built by Nikolai Bayev (1927; today world&#39;s largest KFC).[41]" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Vokzal_Baku_1930.jpg/90px-Vokzal_Baku_1930.jpg" decoding="async" width="90" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Vokzal_Baku_1930.jpg/134px-Vokzal_Baku_1930.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ca/Vokzal_Baku_1930.jpg/179px-Vokzal_Baku_1930.jpg 2x" data-file-width="508" data-file-height="680" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Sabunchi Railroad Station built by <a href="/wiki/Nikolai_Bayev" title="Nikolai Bayev">Nikolai Bayev</a> (1927; today world's largest <a href="/wiki/KFC" title="KFC">KFC</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-World_Largest_KFC_41-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-World_Largest_KFC-41"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:%C4%B0smailiyye_palace_2006.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Ismailiyya building: Built in 1913 by Józef Płoszko. Rebuilt by Vartan Sarkisov after a fire"><img alt="Ismailiyya building: Built in 1913 by Józef Płoszko. Rebuilt by Vartan Sarkisov after a fire" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/%C4%B0smailiyye_palace_2006.jpg/120px-%C4%B0smailiyye_palace_2006.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/%C4%B0smailiyye_palace_2006.jpg/180px-%C4%B0smailiyye_palace_2006.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/%C4%B0smailiyye_palace_2006.jpg/240px-%C4%B0smailiyye_palace_2006.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1296" data-file-height="972" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Ismailiyya_building" class="mw-redirect" title="Ismailiyya building">Ismailiyya building</a>: Built in 1913 by Józef Płoszko. Rebuilt by Vartan Sarkisov after a <a href="/wiki/March_Days" title="March Days">fire</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Puppet_Theatre,_Baku,_2008.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Building of Baku Puppet Theatre. Built by Józef Płoszko [65]"><img alt="Building of Baku Puppet Theatre. Built by Józef Płoszko [65]" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Puppet_Theatre%2C_Baku%2C_2008.jpg/120px-Puppet_Theatre%2C_Baku%2C_2008.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="93" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Puppet_Theatre%2C_Baku%2C_2008.jpg/180px-Puppet_Theatre%2C_Baku%2C_2008.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/33/Puppet_Theatre%2C_Baku%2C_2008.jpg/240px-Puppet_Theatre%2C_Baku%2C_2008.jpg 2x" data-file-width="976" data-file-height="759" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Building of <a href="/wiki/Baku_Puppet_Theatre" title="Baku Puppet Theatre">Baku Puppet Theatre</a>. Built by Józef Płoszko <sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Church_of_the_Blessed_Virgin_Mary%27s_Immaculate_Conception_1.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="The Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary&#39;s Immaculate Conception. Built by Józef Płoszko"><img alt="The Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary&#39;s Immaculate Conception. Built by Józef Płoszko" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Church_of_the_Blessed_Virgin_Mary%27s_Immaculate_Conception_1.jpg/85px-Church_of_the_Blessed_Virgin_Mary%27s_Immaculate_Conception_1.jpg" decoding="async" width="85" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Church_of_the_Blessed_Virgin_Mary%27s_Immaculate_Conception_1.jpg/128px-Church_of_the_Blessed_Virgin_Mary%27s_Immaculate_Conception_1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Church_of_the_Blessed_Virgin_Mary%27s_Immaculate_Conception_1.jpg/171px-Church_of_the_Blessed_Virgin_Mary%27s_Immaculate_Conception_1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="427" data-file-height="600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">The Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary's Immaculate Conception. Built by Józef Płoszko</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Heydar_Aliyev_Palace.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Heydar Aliyev Palace (formerly Lenin Palace) built by B. Ginsburg, E. Melkhisedekov and V. Shulgin[66][67] with the assistance of Armenian architects R. Torosyan, Martin Tovmasyan, and engineer A. Avanesov.[68]"><img alt="Heydar Aliyev Palace (formerly Lenin Palace) built by B. Ginsburg, E. Melkhisedekov and V. Shulgin[66][67] with the assistance of Armenian architects R. Torosyan, Martin Tovmasyan, and engineer A. Avanesov.[68]" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/96/Heydar_Aliyev_Palace.jpg/120px-Heydar_Aliyev_Palace.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="90" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/96/Heydar_Aliyev_Palace.jpg/180px-Heydar_Aliyev_Palace.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/96/Heydar_Aliyev_Palace.jpg/240px-Heydar_Aliyev_Palace.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1482" data-file-height="1114" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Heydar_Aliyev_Palace" title="Heydar Aliyev Palace">Heydar Aliyev Palace</a> (formerly Lenin Palace) built by B. Ginsburg, E. Melkhisedekov and V. Shulgin<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> with the assistance of Armenian architects R. Torosyan, Martin Tovmasyan, and engineer A. Avanesov.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Mayoralty_of_Baku_11.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Baku Municipality Hall. Built by Józef Gosławski[69]"><img alt="Baku Municipality Hall. Built by Józef Gosławski[69]" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Mayoralty_of_Baku_11.JPG/120px-Mayoralty_of_Baku_11.JPG" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Mayoralty_of_Baku_11.JPG/180px-Mayoralty_of_Baku_11.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Mayoralty_of_Baku_11.JPG/240px-Mayoralty_of_Baku_11.JPG 2x" data-file-width="4752" data-file-height="3168" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Baku Municipality Hall. Built by <a href="/wiki/J%C3%B3zef_Gos%C5%82awski_(architect)" title="Józef Gosławski (architect)">Józef Gosławski</a><sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Building_of_Azerbaijan_State_Oil_Academy.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Building of Azerbaijan State Oil Academy. First two floors were built by Józef Gosławski"><img alt="Building of Azerbaijan State Oil Academy. First two floors were built by Józef Gosławski" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Building_of_Azerbaijan_State_Oil_Academy.jpg/120px-Building_of_Azerbaijan_State_Oil_Academy.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="94" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Building_of_Azerbaijan_State_Oil_Academy.jpg/180px-Building_of_Azerbaijan_State_Oil_Academy.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Building_of_Azerbaijan_State_Oil_Academy.jpg/240px-Building_of_Azerbaijan_State_Oil_Academy.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2547" data-file-height="2004" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Building of Azerbaijan State Oil Academy. First two floors were built by Józef Gosławski</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:National_Museum_of_History_of_Azerbaijan_11.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Building of National Museum of History of Azerbaijan. Built by Józef Gosławski"><img alt="Building of National Museum of History of Azerbaijan. Built by Józef Gosławski" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/National_Museum_of_History_of_Azerbaijan_11.JPG/120px-National_Museum_of_History_of_Azerbaijan_11.JPG" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/National_Museum_of_History_of_Azerbaijan_11.JPG/180px-National_Museum_of_History_of_Azerbaijan_11.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/National_Museum_of_History_of_Azerbaijan_11.JPG/240px-National_Museum_of_History_of_Azerbaijan_11.JPG 2x" data-file-width="5184" data-file-height="3456" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Building of <a href="/wiki/National_Museum_of_History_of_Azerbaijan" title="National Museum of History of Azerbaijan">National Museum of History of Azerbaijan</a>. Built by <a href="/wiki/J%C3%B3zef_Gos%C5%82awski_(architect)" title="Józef Gosławski (architect)">Józef Gosławski</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Institute_of_Manuscripts,_Baku,_2010.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Building of Institute of Manuscripts of Azerbaijan. Built by Józef Gosławski[70]"><img alt="Building of Institute of Manuscripts of Azerbaijan. Built by Józef Gosławski[70]" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Institute_of_Manuscripts%2C_Baku%2C_2010.jpg/120px-Institute_of_Manuscripts%2C_Baku%2C_2010.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Institute_of_Manuscripts%2C_Baku%2C_2010.jpg/180px-Institute_of_Manuscripts%2C_Baku%2C_2010.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Institute_of_Manuscripts%2C_Baku%2C_2010.jpg/240px-Institute_of_Manuscripts%2C_Baku%2C_2010.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1426" data-file-height="950" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Building of <a href="/wiki/Institute_of_Manuscripts_of_Azerbaijan" title="Institute of Manuscripts of Azerbaijan">Institute of Manuscripts of Azerbaijan</a>. Built by <a href="/wiki/J%C3%B3zef_Gos%C5%82awski_(architect)" title="Józef Gosławski (architect)">Józef Gosławski</a><sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Landau_house_in_Baku.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Residence on Krasnovodskaya street built by Vartan Sarkisov (1908).[26][71] Lev Landau lived in this house till 1924."><img alt="Residence on Krasnovodskaya street built by Vartan Sarkisov (1908).[26][71] Lev Landau lived in this house till 1924." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Landau_house_in_Baku.jpg/93px-Landau_house_in_Baku.jpg" decoding="async" width="93" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Landau_house_in_Baku.jpg/139px-Landau_house_in_Baku.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Landau_house_in_Baku.jpg/185px-Landau_house_in_Baku.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1896" data-file-height="2454" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Residence on Krasnovodskaya street built by Vartan Sarkisov (1908).<sup id="cite_ref-Activity_of_Armenian_Architects_in_South_Caucasus_26-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Activity_of_Armenian_Architects_in_South_Caucasus-26"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Lev_Landau" title="Lev Landau">Lev Landau</a> lived in this house till 1924.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Holl_bma.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Hall of Baku Academy of Music. Designed by Mikayil Huseynov"><img alt="Hall of Baku Academy of Music. Designed by Mikayil Huseynov" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Holl_bma.JPG/120px-Holl_bma.JPG" decoding="async" width="120" height="80" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Holl_bma.JPG/180px-Holl_bma.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Holl_bma.JPG/240px-Holl_bma.JPG 2x" data-file-width="950" data-file-height="634" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Hall of <a href="/wiki/Baku_Academy_of_Music" title="Baku Academy of Music">Baku Academy of Music</a>. Designed by <a href="/wiki/Mikayil_Huseynov" title="Mikayil Huseynov">Mikayil Huseynov</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:National_Library_of_Azerbaijan.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="State Public Library named after M.F.Akhundov (1960). Designed by Mikayil Huseynov"><img alt="State Public Library named after M.F.Akhundov (1960). Designed by Mikayil Huseynov" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f6/National_Library_of_Azerbaijan.jpg/120px-National_Library_of_Azerbaijan.jpg" decoding="async" width="120" height="98" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f6/National_Library_of_Azerbaijan.jpg/180px-National_Library_of_Azerbaijan.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f6/National_Library_of_Azerbaijan.jpg/240px-National_Library_of_Azerbaijan.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2421" data-file-height="1972" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/National_Library_of_Azerbaijan" title="National Library of Azerbaijan">State Public Library named after M.F.Akhundov</a> (1960). Designed by <a href="/wiki/Mikayil_Huseynov" title="Mikayil Huseynov">Mikayil Huseynov</a></div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Current_developments">Current developments</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Architecture_of_Baku&amp;action=edit&amp;section=12" title="Edit section: Current developments"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>As a developing city largely influenced by economic oil boom, there are many construction projects that are currently being built that will change the city's skyline in the near future. Some of the construction project are <a href="/wiki/SOCAR_Tower" title="SOCAR Tower">SOCAR Tower</a>, <a href="/wiki/The_Crescent_Development_project" title="The Crescent Development project">the Crescent Development project</a>, <a href="/wiki/Baku_White_City" title="Baku White City">Baku White City</a>, <a href="/wiki/Baku_National_Stadium" class="mw-redirect" title="Baku National Stadium">Baku National Stadium</a>, Full Moon Hotel, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Hilton_Baku&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Hilton Baku (page does not exist)">Baku Hilton Hotel</a>, and the Four Seasons Hotel.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> A lot of the new development has come at the cost of old Soviet-era existing structures. The destruction of the Soviet heritage has created controversy, such as the recent destruction of the Soviet-era <a href="/wiki/26_Commissars_Memorial" class="mw-redirect" title="26 Commissars Memorial">26 Commissars Memorial</a> in 2009 to make way for a new car park.<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2011, <a href="/wiki/Discovery_channel" class="mw-redirect" title="Discovery channel">Discovery channel</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Extreme_Engineering" title="Extreme Engineering">Extreme Engineering</a> program featured these projects that are under construction in Baku.<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Skyline">Skyline</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Architecture_of_Baku&amp;action=edit&amp;section=13" title="Edit section: Skyline"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="thumb tnone" style="margin-left:auto;margin-right:auto;overflow:hidden;width:auto;max-width:1008px"><div class="thumbinner"><div class="noresize" style="overflow:auto"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Vista_de_Baku,_Azerbaiy%C3%A1n,_2016-09-26,_DD_101-106_PAN.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="A panoramic view of Baku Bay"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Vista_de_Baku%2C_Azerbaiy%C3%A1n%2C_2016-09-26%2C_DD_101-106_PAN.jpg/1000px-Vista_de_Baku%2C_Azerbaiy%C3%A1n%2C_2016-09-26%2C_DD_101-106_PAN.jpg" decoding="async" width="1000" height="234" 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section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Architecture_of_Azerbaijan" title="Architecture of Azerbaijan">Architecture of Azerbaijan</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Architecture_of_Baku&amp;action=edit&amp;section=15" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output 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class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sakharov-center.ru/publications/azrus/az_004.htm">Память об утратах и азербайджанское общество</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20110310011358/http://www.sakharov-center.ru/publications/azrus/az_004.htm">Archived</a> 2011-03-10 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> <span class="languageicon">(in Russian)</span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://anysite.ru/publication/islam">Архитектура исламских мечетей</a> <span class="languageicon">(in Russian)</span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style 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Наш Баку.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.atitle=%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B8%D0%B1%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2+%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%8B%D0%BC-%D0%B1%D0%B5%D0%BA+-+%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%85%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80&amp;rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ourbaku.com%2Findex.php5%2F%25D0%2593%25D0%25B0%25D0%25B4%25D0%25B6%25D0%25B8%25D0%25B1%25D0%25B0%25D0%25B1%25D0%25B0%25D0%25B1%25D0%25B5%25D0%25BA%25D0%25BE%25D0%25B2_%25D0%259A%25D0%25B0%25D1%2581%25D1%258B%25D0%25BC-%25D0%25B1%25D0%25B5%25D0%25BA_-_%25D0%25B0%25D1%2580%25D1%2585%25D0%25B8%25D1%2582%25D0%25B5%25D0%25BA%25D1%2582%25D0%25BE%25D1%2580&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AArchitecture+of+Baku" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-47"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-47">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.baku.ru/enc-show.php?id=59541&amp;cmm_id=276">"Кинотеатр "Араз"- улица Азизбекова"</a>. 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Наш Баку.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.atitle=%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BF%D0%B5%D1%82+-+%D0%9A%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8E%D0%B1%D0%B0%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%8F+%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%89%D0%B0%D0%B4%D1%8C+-+%D1%81%D0%B0%D0%B4+%D0%B8%D0%BC.+%D0%9A.+%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B0+-+%D0%BF%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%89%D0%B0%D0%B4%D1%8C+%D0%A4%D0%BE%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BE%D0%B2&amp;rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ourbaku.com%2Findex.php5%2F%25D0%259F%25D0%25B0%25D1%2580%25D0%25B0%25D0%25BF%25D0%25B5%25D1%2582&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AArchitecture+of+Baku" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Our_Baku:_Hovhannes_Katchaznouni-49"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Our_Baku:_Hovhannes_Katchaznouni_49-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Our_Baku:_Hovhannes_Katchaznouni_49-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20131104193215/http://www.ourbaku.com/index.php5/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%BD%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B8_(%D0%98%D0%B3%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%8F%D0%BD)_%D0%9E%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%81_%D0%9E%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87_-_%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%85%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80">"Hovhannes Katchaznouni"</a>. <i>Our Baku</i> (in Russian). Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ourbaku.com/index.php5/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%BD%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B8_%28%D0%98%D0%B3%D0%B8%D1%82%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%8F%D0%BD%29_%D0%9E%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%81_%D0%9E%D0%B2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87_-_%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%85%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80">the original</a> on 2013-11-04<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2 December</span> 2012</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=Our+Baku&amp;rft.atitle=Hovhannes+Katchaznouni&amp;rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ourbaku.com%2Findex.php5%2F%25D0%259A%25D0%25B0%25D0%25B4%25D0%25B6%25D0%25B0%25D0%25B7%25D0%25BD%25D1%2583%25D0%25BD%25D0%25B8_%2528%25D0%2598%25D0%25B3%25D0%25B8%25D1%2582%25D1%2585%25D0%25B0%25D0%25BD%25D1%258F%25D0%25BD%2529_%25D0%259E%25D0%25B2%25D0%25B0%25D0%25BD%25D0%25B5%25D1%2581_%25D0%259E%25D0%25B2%25D0%25B0%25D0%25BD%25D0%25B5%25D1%2581%25D0%25BE%25D0%25B2%25D0%25B8%25D1%2587_-_%25D0%25B0%25D1%2580%25D1%2585%25D0%25B8%25D1%2582%25D0%25B5%25D0%25BA%25D1%2582%25D0%25BE%25D1%2580&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AArchitecture+of+Baku" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-50"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-50">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFShaw2008" class="citation book cs1">Shaw, Stanford J. (2008). <i>The Ottoman Empire in World War I</i>. Ankara: Turkish Historical Society. p.&#160;862. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9789751618832" title="Special:BookSources/9789751618832"><bdi>9789751618832</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Ottoman+Empire+in+World+War+I&amp;rft.place=Ankara&amp;rft.pages=862&amp;rft.pub=Turkish+Historical+Society&amp;rft.date=2008&amp;rft.isbn=9789751618832&amp;rft.aulast=Shaw&amp;rft.aufirst=Stanford+J.&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AArchitecture+of+Baku" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Activity_of_Armenian_Architects_in_South_Caucasus:_pg._264-51"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Activity_of_Armenian_Architects_in_South_Caucasus:_pg._264_51-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Activity_of_Armenian_Architects_in_South_Caucasus:_pg._264_51-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFTigranyan2003" class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Tigranyan, Edmond (2003). <i>Activity of Armenian Architects in South Caucasus</i> (in Armenian). Yerevan: Voskan Yerevantsi. p.&#160;264. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9789993000525" title="Special:BookSources/9789993000525"><bdi>9789993000525</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Activity+of+Armenian+Architects+in+South+Caucasus&amp;rft.place=Yerevan&amp;rft.pages=264&amp;rft.pub=Voskan+Yerevantsi&amp;rft.date=2003&amp;rft.isbn=9789993000525&amp;rft.aulast=Tigranyan&amp;rft.aufirst=Edmond&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AArchitecture+of+Baku" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-52"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-52">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mesrop Vardapet, «Ararat», St. Echmiadzin, 1903</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-53"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-53">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20111005172700/http://www.nr2.ru/incidents/139859.html">"В Баку варварски уничтожается христианско-еврейское кладбище (Christian-Jewish Cemetery Destroyed in Baku)"</a> (in Russian). 2007-09-14. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nr2.ru/incidents/139859.html">the original</a> on 2011-10-05<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2 December</span> 2012</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.atitle=%D0%92+%D0%91%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%83+%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B2%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8+%D1%83%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%87%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%B6%D0%B0%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%81%D1%8F+%D1%85%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE-%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B5+%D0%BA%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B1%D0%B8%D1%89%D0%B5+%28Christian-Jewish+Cemetery+Destroyed+in+Baku%29&amp;rft.date=2007-09-14&amp;rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nr2.ru%2Fincidents%2F139859.html&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AArchitecture+of+Baku" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-54"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-54">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120615024129/http://www.ourbaku.com/index.php5/%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%BC_%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0-%22%D0%A1%D0%BE%D1%8E%D0%B7_%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%87%D0%B8%D1%85_%D0%90%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B1%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0%22-%22%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%BC_%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%22">"House of Tigran Melikov (Melikyan)"</a>. <i>Ourbaku</i> (in Russian). Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ourbaku.com/index.php5/%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%BC_%D0%9C%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B0-%22%D0%A1%D0%BE%D1%8E%D0%B7_%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%BE%D1%87%D0%B8%D1%85_%D0%90%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B1%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0%22-%22%D0%94%D0%BE%D0%BC_%D0%BF%D0%B8%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%22">the original</a> on 15 June 2012<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2 December</span> 2012</span>. <q>Translated from Russian: The three-story building at the Molokan № 27 (Khagani) was built in the early twentieth century (arh. V.S.Sarkisov Prof. Sarkisov, architect) and owned by a local millionaire Tigran Melikov. He also made the designs of the houses on the streets Krasnovodskaya and Nikolaev.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=Ourbaku&amp;rft.atitle=House+of+Tigran+Melikov+%28Melikyan%29&amp;rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ourbaku.com%2Findex.php5%2F%25D0%2594%25D0%25BE%25D0%25BC_%25D0%259C%25D0%25B5%25D0%25BB%25D0%25B8%25D0%25BA%25D0%25BE%25D0%25B2%25D0%25B0-%2522%25D0%25A1%25D0%25BE%25D1%258E%25D0%25B7_%25D0%25B3%25D0%25BE%25D1%2580%25D0%25BD%25D0%25BE%25D1%2580%25D0%25B0%25D0%25B1%25D0%25BE%25D1%2587%25D0%25B8%25D1%2585_%25D0%2590%25D0%25B7%25D0%25B5%25D1%2580%25D0%25B1%25D0%25B0%25D0%25B9%25D0%25B4%25D0%25B6%25D0%25B0%25D0%25BD%25D0%25B0%2522-%2522%25D0%2594%25D0%25BE%25D0%25BC_%25D0%25BF%25D0%25B8%25D0%25BE%25D0%25BD%25D0%25B5%25D1%2580%25D0%25BE%25D0%25B2%2522&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AArchitecture+of+Baku" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-55"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-55">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ourbaku.com/index.php5/%D0%90%D1%80%D1%85%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%8B_%D0%90%D0%B7%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B1%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%B4%D0%B6%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B0_19_%D0%B8_%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%87%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%B0_20-%D0%B3%D0%BE_%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BA%D0%B0#.D0.A1.D0.90.D0.A0.D0.9A.D0.98.D0.A1.D0.9E.D0.92_.D0.92.D0.B0.D1.80.D1.82.D0.B0.D0.BD_.D0.A1.D1.82.D0.B5.D0.BF.D0.B0.D0.BD.D0.BE.D0.B2.D0.B8.D1.87">"Architects of Azerbaijan 19th and early 20th century"</a> (in Russian). Ourbaku<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2 December</span> 2012</span>. <q>Translated from Russian: Residential – 1915 – st. Molokan, 23. This five-storey house – 1917 – Ul.Nikolaevskaya, 11. A three-storey house – 1913 – st. Krasnovodsk, 13</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.btitle=Architects+of+Azerbaijan+19th+and+early+20th+century&amp;rft.pub=Ourbaku&amp;rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ourbaku.com%2Findex.php5%2F%25D0%2590%25D1%2580%25D1%2585%25D0%25B8%25D1%2582%25D0%25B5%25D0%25BA%25D1%2582%25D0%25BE%25D1%2580%25D1%258B_%25D0%2590%25D0%25B7%25D0%25B5%25D1%2580%25D0%25B1%25D0%25B0%25D0%25B9%25D0%25B4%25D0%25B6%25D0%25B0%25D0%25BD%25D0%25B0_19_%25D0%25B8_%25D0%25BD%25D0%25B0%25D1%2587%25D0%25B0%25D0%25BB%25D0%25B0_20-%25D0%25B3%25D0%25BE_%25D0%25B2%25D0%25B5%25D0%25BA%25D0%25B0%23.D0.A1.D0.90.D0.A0.D0.9A.D0.98.D0.A1.D0.9E.D0.92_.D0.92.D0.B0.D1.80.D1.82.D0.B0.D0.BD_.D0.A1.D1.82.D0.B5.D0.BF.D0.B0.D0.BD.D0.BE.D0.B2.D0.B8.D1.87&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AArchitecture+of+Baku" class="Z3988"></span><sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot"><span title="&#160;Dead link tagged September 2023">permanent dead link</span></a></i><span style="visibility:hidden; color:transparent; padding-left:2px">&#8205;</span>&#93;</span></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-56"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-56">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ra.am/?num=2007053001">"28 MAY DAY FIRST REPUBLIC"</a> (in Russian). May 30, 2007<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Termikelova</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.btitle=House+Brothers+Sadikhov+%28Baku%29&amp;rft.pub=Ourbaku&amp;rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ourbaku.com%2Findex.php5%2F%25D0%2594%25D0%25BE%25D0%25BC_%25D0%2591%25D1%2580%25D0%25B0%25D1%2582%25D1%258C%25D0%25B5%25D0%25B2_%25D0%25A1%25D0%25B0%25D0%25B4%25D1%258B%25D1%2585%25D0%25BE%25D0%25B2%25D1%258B%25D1%2585_%2528%25D0%2591%25D0%25B0%25D0%25BA%25D1%2583%2529&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AArchitecture+of+Baku" class="Z3988"></span><sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">&#91;<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot"><span title="&#160;Dead link tagged September 2023">permanent dead link</span></a></i><span style="visibility:hidden; color:transparent; padding-left:2px">&#8205;</span>&#93;</span></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-60"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-60">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFThomson2005" class="citation book cs1">Thomson, Jason (2005). <i>In the shadow of Aliyev&#160;: travels in Azerbaijan</i>. 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Ourbaku<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2 December</span> 2012</span>. <q>Translated from Russian. Merkurevskaya Street 39: Commercial School building. Built in 1913. 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class="new" title="Gardashlyg Mosque (page does not exist)">Gardashlyg Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jinn_Mosque" title="Jinn Mosque">Jinn Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Takyeh_(Old_City,_Baku)" class="mw-redirect" title="Takyeh (Old City, Baku)">Takyeh (Old City, Baku)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chin_Mosque" title="Chin Mosque">Chin Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gileyli_Mosque" title="Gileyli Mosque">Gileyli Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khidir_Mosque" title="Khidir Mosque">Khidir Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lezgi_Mosque" class="mw-redirect" title="Lezgi Mosque">Lezgi Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ashur_Mosque" title="Ashur Mosque">Ashur Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muhammad_Mosque_(Baku)" class="mw-redirect" title="Muhammad Mosque (Baku)">Muhammad Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mosque_of_the_Martyrs" title="Mosque of the Martyrs">Shahids’ Mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taza_Pir_Mosque" title="Taza Pir Mosque">Taza Pir Mosque</a></li> 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parks</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Baku_Bay" class="mw-redirect" title="Baku Bay">Baku Bay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baku_Archipelago" title="Baku Archipelago">Baku Archipelago</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lake_Boyukshor" title="Lake Boyukshor">Lake Boyukshor</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Baku_Botanical_Gardens&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Baku Botanical Gardens (page does not exist)">Baku Botanical Gardens</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=National_Park,_Baku&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="National Park, Baku (page does not exist)">National Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mirza_Alakbar_Sabir_Garden" title="Mirza Alakbar Sabir Garden">Mirza Alakbar Sabir Garden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Philharmonic_Garden" title="Philharmonic Garden">Philharmonic Garden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Molokan_Garden" 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Palace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baku_Zoo" title="Baku Zoo">Baku Zoo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Park_Bulvar" title="Park Bulvar">Park Bulvar</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Children%27s_World,_Baku&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Children&#39;s World, Baku (page does not exist)">Children's World</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baku_State_Circus" title="Baku State Circus">Baku State Circus</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Baku_Water_Park&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Baku Water Park (page does not exist)">Baku Water Park</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Baku_Aqua_Park&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Baku Aqua Park (page does not exist)">Baku Aqua Park</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Cultural and art</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a 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State Museum of Musical Culture">Azerbaijan State Museum of Musical Culture</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nizami_Museum_of_Azerbaijani_Literature" title="Nizami Museum of Azerbaijani Literature">Nizami Museum of Azerbaijani Literature</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baku_Museum_of_Modern_Art" title="Baku Museum of Modern Art">Baku Museum of Modern Art</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Museum_of_Political_Repression_Victims" title="Museum of Political Repression Victims">Museum of Political Repression Victims</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baku_Museum_of_Miniature_Books" title="Baku Museum of Miniature Books">Baku Museum of Miniature Books</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rinay" title="Rinay">Rinay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Azerbaijan_Carpet_Museum" title="Azerbaijan Carpet Museum">Azerbaijan Carpet Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Azerbaijan_Railway_Museum" title="Azerbaijan Railway Museum">Azerbaijan Railway Museum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/House-Museum_of_Vagif_Mustafazadeh" title="House-Museum of Vagif Mustafazadeh">House-Museum of Vagif Mustafazadeh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Villa_Petrolea" title="Villa Petrolea">Villa Petrolea</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Azerbaijan_State_Academic_Drama_Theatre" class="mw-redirect" title="Azerbaijan State Academic Drama Theatre">Azerbaijan State Academic Drama Theatre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Azerbaijan_State_Pantomime_Theatre" title="Azerbaijan State Pantomime Theatre">Azerbaijan State Pantomime Theatre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Azerbaijan_State_Russian_Drama_Theatre" class="mw-redirect" title="Azerbaijan State Russian Drama Theatre">Azerbaijan State Russian Drama Theatre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Azerbaijan_State_Theatre_of_Musical_Comedy" class="mw-redirect" title="Azerbaijan State Theatre of Musical Comedy">Azerbaijan State Theatre of Musical Comedy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Azerbaijan_State_Theatre_of_Young_Spectators" title="Azerbaijan State Theatre of Young Spectators">Azerbaijan State Theatre of Young Spectators</a></li> 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Music">Baku Academy of Music</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Asaf_Zeynally_Music_College" class="mw-redirect" title="Asaf Zeynally Music College">Asaf Zeynally Music College</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baku_Polytechnicum" title="Baku Polytechnicum">Baku Polytechnicum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jamshid_Nakhchivanski_Military_Lyceum" title="Jamshid Nakhchivanski Military Lyceum">Jamshid Nakhchivanski Military Lyceum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lyc%C3%A9e_fran%C3%A7ais_de_Bakou" title="Lycée français de Bakou">Lycée français de Bakou</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baku_International_School" title="Baku International School">Baku International School</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Sport venues</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/AZAL_Stadium" class="mw-redirect" title="AZAL Stadium">AZAL Stadium</a></li> <li><a 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Stadium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heydar_Aliyev_Sports_and_Exhibition_Complex" class="mw-redirect" title="Heydar Aliyev Sports and Exhibition Complex">Heydar Aliyev Sports and Exhibition Complex</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ismat_Gayibov_Stadium" title="Ismat Gayibov Stadium">Ismat Gayibov Stadium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karabakh_Stadium" class="mw-redirect" title="Karabakh Stadium">Karabakh Stadium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Gymnastics_Arena" title="National Gymnastics Arena">National Gymnastics Arena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shafa_Stadium" class="mw-redirect" title="Shafa Stadium">Inter Arena</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shagan_Olympic_Sport_Complex_Stadium" title="Shagan Olympic Sport Complex Stadium">Shagan Olympic Sport Complex Stadium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tofiq_Bahramov_Republican_Stadium" title="Tofiq Bahramov Republican Stadium">Tofiq Bahramov Republican Stadium</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tofiq_Ismayilov_Stadium" title="Tofiq Ismayilov Stadium">Tofiq 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