Baku is an alley of martyrs. Alley of martyrs Baku events of 1990 alley of martyrs

It is located on the side of a mountain. You can get to the memorial from the city center, from the embankment on the newly built funicular.
Martyrs' Alley is a mournful monument to the Karabakh war. The Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict flared up many times - both at the beginning of the 20th century, in the 60s, and flared up with particular tension in the last years of the existence of the Soviet Union.

The end of the 80s were bloody years for the two countries fighting for the right to possess Nagorno-Karabakh.
Black January 1990 began with Armenian pogroms in Baku and other cities of Azerbaijan.
On January 20, combat units of the Soviet army entered the city. Many perceived this as an occupation, although Azerbaijan was still part of the USSR. As a result of clashes with troops and the use of force, more than a hundred civilians were killed.
All of them are buried at the memorial cemetery, called the Alley of Martyrs.

More than a hundred names under the portraits of those who died on that bloody day on January 20, 1990. Completely different people - men and women, old people and still children, at the beginning of the alley there is a portrait of the newlyweds who died that day .. There are several plates on which there is only the date of death and the signature "Unknown".
It was a terrible day. And it was preceded by many such terrible days when the Azerbaijanis staged Armenian pogroms. And then there were four bloody years of fratricidal war.
The empire was collapsing, trying to contain the bloodshed of the peoples who had lived in the world for a long time. The world was fortified with fire and sword.

And it is not known whether there would have been less blood if the Soviet army had not entered Baku in January 1990.
The events of those days will remain a blank spot in modern history. There will be no clear answer as to who is right and who is wrong.
But there is an Alley of Martyrs in Baku - a memorial to the memory of patriots who died in the battles for the independence of Azerbaijan.

The word "shahid" is alarming. In my mind, it is associated with terrorists and religious fanatics. As a rule, suicide bombers are called this word, and even explosives are called "shahid's belt." When I saw an unexpected object on the city map, I choked. Of course, I went to Nagorny Park to see what this alley is like.

Alley of Martyrs - a cemetery where the victims of "Black January" and those who died during the Karabakh war are buried. "Black January" is called January 1990, or rather the events of the night from the 19th to the 20th, when Soviet troops were brought into Baku. The political opposition held rallies and aggravated the situation, all this against the backdrop of the Karabakh conflict and Armenian pogroms. The situation escalated to the limit, and it was decided to stop it by force. As a result of the clash, 126 Azerbaijanis were killed. They were buried as heroes of the struggle for independence on the Alley of Martyrs in Upland Park. At that time it was called the Kirov Park. Created a navigation address for this place - https://naviaddress.com/994/949393

Memorial. An eternal flame burns inside.

Since the park is located on a mountain, the Martyrs' Alley is arranged in terraces. There are three, four or five such "floors".

A shahid is a martyr who accepted death, fighting in the name of Allah, defending his faith, homeland, honor, family. Chairman of the Council of Muftis of Russia Ravil Gainutdin has repeatedly criticized the use of the term "shahid" in relation to terrorists. This is wrong and is aimed at discrediting Islam. Hence the confusion in the public mind.

My next target is the TV tower. Its height is 310 meters. Construction began in 1979. However, the object turned into a long-term construction. As a result, they finished only in 1996.

I climbed to the top level of the cemetery. Found some Soviet ruins.

It turned out that I went around the cemetery around and went down the other side. There is an eternal flame in the form of a torch and the state flag of Azerbaijan.

Shahidlyar Mosque and the upper station of the funicular

Noticed another memorial, went to see

It turned out that this is a memorial to the memory of Turkish soldiers who died in the battle for Baku in 1918.

Monument to twice Hero of the Soviet Union General Hazi Aslanov

Flame Towers skyscrapers are the tallest buildings in Azerbaijan. . I was hoping that you can enter there and maybe even have an observation deck, but there is a fence around the complex, and the buildings look uninhabited.

The television tower stands on a nearby mountain. The places are deserted, public transport does not go there. I walked along the road past the closed territory of the television company, then through the construction site. I already thought that there was no observation platform there.

At first I didn't go there. The kind uncle stopped me, said that they would not let me into the television center. Like, go down the road, the entrance to the TV tower is there. On the way I met a security guard, he went nuts and even got out of his booth. Apparently single girls don't go there often. In fact, they mostly come there by taxi or by their own car. The guard said that there is an observation deck, you need to go to the restaurant and take the elevator.

I went to a restaurant. But it was not there. They just didn't let me in. They said that you can get into the restaurant by reservation and in general they have a deposit. There is simply no viewing platform.

She left without salty slurping. In fact, she was very angry. This is a flashlight for the profile community. And this is the navigation address for the tower and the restaurant - https://naviaddress.com/994/931791

She returned back by a different route, not through Nagorny Park and Gulistan, but around the Flame Towers through new quarters.

Residential buildings on Lermontov street. I wanted to show you that in Baku there is not only the old city and Soviet houses.

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In 1935, this cemetery was liquidated, some of the burials were moved by relatives to other cemeteries. In its place, a name was broken and a statue of him was erected. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the park was liquidated, the statue of Kirov, as well as entertainment facilities, were removed.

After the tragedy, on January 21, 1990, a commission was established for the funeral of those who gave their lives for the independence of Azerbaijan. The commission was headed by Azer Nabiev. The place for the burial of martyrs was determined by Azer Nabiev together with the chairman of the Executive Committee of People's Deputies of the district named after 26 Baku commissars of Baku city Ali Mammadov. The recommendations of the architect Nariman Aliyev were also taken into account when choosing the site.

On January 21, 1990, they were transferred to Nagorny Park after the farewell ceremony on the square "" ( Azadlıq meydanı - "Freedom Square", former "Lenin Square") bodies killed in the course of the night from to . On January 20-21, more than 120 graves were dug in the alley. The funeral went on for several hours. On January 22, another 50 people were buried. Three of them were victims whose bodies were found in the park while digging graves. On all three graves it is written "Shaheeds of 1918". Flowers, mostly red carnations, were laid on the graves and at the places of death of martyrs, which became a symbol of mourning in Azerbaijan.

On the site of the Alley of Martyrs, there used to be a Muslim cemetery, where the bodies of the victims of the March events were buried. Soon, the Bolsheviks who came to power destroyed this cemetery, removing the buried bodies from there, and created a park named after the Bolshevik Commissar of Transcaucasia Sergey Kirov on this site.

Events in 1990

After the bloody events on the night of January 19-20, 1990, the bodies of the killed people were transferred to this "Upland Park". On January 20 and 21, more than 120 graves were dug in the alley. Starting from noon, the bodies of citizens killed on the shoulders from the Azadlyg Square (Azerb. Azadlıq meydanı - "Freedom Square", former "Square of the 11th Red Army") were transferred to the Alley and buried with full honors. The funeral lasted 5 hours. On January 22, another 51 victims were buried. Three of them were victims of the March 1918 massacre, found in the park while digging graves. On all three graves it is written "Martyrs of 1918". The last to be buried was an unknown 25-year-old victim, on whose grave the inscription "Unknown" is written.

Flowers were placed on graves and places of death, mostly red carnations, which have become a mourning flower in Azerbaijan.

Memory

On January 17, 2000, the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Heydar Aliyev, issued a decree “On conferring an honorary title "Martyr January 20"”, which provides a complete list of the dead and missing.

Honored guests of Baku usually visit the Alley of Martyrs.

Notable Facts

On October 7, 2009, one of the Armenian information resources (www.news.am) posted an article telling about the "opening of a memorial to the fallen heroes in one of the Karabakh villages." However, according to the Azerbaijani media, falsification was committed during the transfer of information - a photograph of the Alley of Shehids in Baku was used in the article.

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I dedicate this post to the memory of all peaceful people who died as a result of internal conflicts in the countries of the world, which were unleashed by various politicians who want to get power into their own hands or keep it ...

Alley of Martyrs

In the history of every country there are black dates that reverberate with pain in the souls of people. There is such a date in the history of Azerbaijan. This is January 20, 1990. On this day, the government of the USSR brought its troops into Baku to suppress the "political opposition". The only thing that died in that “suppression” was not the militants (what a fashionable word is now), but civilians. Civilians perished under the caterpillars of tanks and the fire of machine guns and machine guns… A terrible page in history. With the independence of the dead - more than 170 people, mostly civilians (not soldiers!) People, were buried in Nagorny Park, or Kirov Park (under Soviet rule). And now this place has a new name - ALLEY OF SHAHEED.

To be honest, when I first heard the name "Martyrs' Alley", I was very surprised! How is it that in a developed country with a free attitude towards all religions (despite the fact that the country is Muslim) an entire alley is named after terrorists? But after hearing the history of the alley, and then reading the origin of the word "shahid", I understood everything. How historical reality is distorted in the modern world. Shahid, literally, is a martyr for the faith who died on the battlefield. Later, this word was used to refer to all innocent people who accepted a violent death. And only now this concept is inextricably linked with suicide bombers. Although many Muslims themselves condemn terror.

The Mosque of Shahids, built before the Soviet era

central aisle

Alley of Martyrs is a cemetery that has become a memorial. It is sad, and even creepy, to walk among the graves, on which the same date of death is carved. And after all, this did not happen anywhere, in Africa, for example, where wars and bloodshed do not end from time immemorial to the present day, but in our (even former) large and once peaceful country.

The alley is located on the top of a mountain on the southern side of the coast of the Baku Bay. Around the cemetery there is a cozy square, which ends with an observation deck, which offers a beautiful view of both the Caspian Sea and sunny Baku. Many people come here. And bow to the innocently killed, and enjoy the peace of the square, and admire the panorama of Baku and the Caspian Sea ...