Aghdam is our! Karabagh is Azerbaijan!
Aghdam – Ghost Town
Aghdam was founded in the 18th
century and granted city status in 1828. Before the First Nagorno-Karabakh War,
butter, wine and brandy, machine, and silk factories, an airport and two
railway stations functioned there.
The district was occupied in 1993.
Some 70,000 people were since displaced and settled in the nearby Azerbaijani
provinces of Tartar and Barda. The Armenians managed to occupy 8467 sq.km of the territory of Aghdam region,
i.e 77.4 percent of the total area.The occupied Aghdam city and 89 villages
were destroyed on unprecedented brutality and razed to the ground. For the
defence of Aghdam 5897 people were
killed, 3531 became invalids, 1871 children were orphaned. Thousands of people
have become physically disabled, more than 126 thousand citizens of Aghdam have
been displaced from their native land. The people of Aghdam have longed for
their homeland for 27 years.
Aghdam national heroes:
Allahverdi Bagirov
Hidayet Rustamov
Canpolad Rzayev
Rovshen Huseynov
Fazil Mehdiyev
Muxtar Qasimov
Yelmar Edilov
Nadir Aliyev
Faiq Aghayev
Natiq Ahmadov
Shirin Mirzeyev
Asif Maharramov
Alabbas Iskandarov
Bakhskeyis Pashayev and hundreds of
more immortal heroes…
However, as a result of the Second
Karabakh War, which began on September 27, 2020, and the agreement signed,
Aghdam came under the rule of Azerbaijan as a whole. Azerbaijani citizens
visited Martyrs’ Alley to celebrate liberation of Aghdam region after 27 years.
Pearl of Aghdam
Tea House
The tea house was based on the idea
of the academician Khudu Mammadov during Sadig Murtuzayev’s post as first
Secretary of the Agdam District Party Committee of the Central Committee of the
Azerbaijan SSR. Naik Samadov was chief architect of the Tea House project. In
the project, masonry was only used on the first floor. The remainder consisted
of metal construction. It was decided to place the tea house near the mosque
after discussion with Khudu Mammadov. The tea house was inaugurated on 26 July
1986. In addition to the regional officials, Vafa Guluzade, the head of the
Culture Department of the CP CC of Azerbaijan SSR, also participated in the
opening ceremony. In 1993, the Tea House was burned down by the Armenian Armed
Forces.
Aghdam Bread Museum was the second in
the world, and the first and only bread museum in the USSR.
Among the exhibits collected in this
museum are petrified ancient grain samples, rare grain species, numerous
valuable books, manuscripts and other materials related to the development of
grain growing, ancient agricultural tools: bricks, ordinary and toothed
sickles, grain threshers, hand mills and other tools existed.
The museum itself has a very
interesting history. So, in the very center of the city there was an old mill
that was in ruins. During the difficult years of the war, this mill became the
only breadbasket in Aghdam, so it was considered a sacred place and it was
considered inadmissible to touch it. The idea that this mill would later
function as a bakery is welcomed by all.
Well-known grain academician Imam
Mustafayev brought these grains from his rich grain collection along with other
samples, which significantly increased the value of the museum. Hundreds of
people's bread samples were obtained.
When a Russian woman, a participant
in the siege of Leningrad, heard the museum's question, she brought a hundred
and fifty grams of charred bread, which she had not eaten to the point of
death, and gave it to the museum. Samples of bread were sent from the cosmonaut
campus. About two thousand samples of grain were collected in the museum in a
short time.
But, unfortunately, this wealth was
destroyed during the invasion by Armenian Armed Forces.
Aghdam
Mosque
The
mosque was built by the architect Karbalayi Safikhan Karabakhi from 1868 to
1870. The mosque was built in the typical style for mosques in Karabakh region,
which included the division of stone columns on the two-story gallery and the
use of domed ceilings. Mosque was one of the few buildings of the town that was
not destroyed during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. The Agdam Mosque was the
only structurally whole building in the city, which Armenians vandalized it
with graffiti, and used it as a stable for cattle and swine for years. After
the ceding of Agdam back to Azerbaijan The first Friday prayer after 27 years
was held in the mosque by the last imam of the mosque and Azerbaijani soldiers.
On
November 23, President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Victorious
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Ilham Aliyev and First Lady Mehriban
Aliyeva visited the city of Aghdam, liberated from occupation. The head of
state raised Azerbaijan's tricolor flag in Aghdam. The national flag of
Azerbaijan is now flying proudly in Aghdam, liberated from occupation after 27
years. President Ilham Aliyev presented the Holy Quran he brought from Mecca to
the Aghdam mosque.
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