Aydin Balayev Huseynaga oglu ( az, Aydın Balayev Hüseynağa oğlu; 19 November 1956 – 8 December 2021) was an Azerbaijani historian,

ethnologist Ethnology (from the grc-gre, ἔθνος, meaning 'nation') is an academic field that compares and analyzes the characteristics of different peoples and the relationships between them (compare cultural, social, or sociocultural anthropology) ...

, and professor.

Biography

Balayev was born on 19 November 1956, in

Baku Baku (, ; az, Bakı ) is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region. Baku is located below sea level, which makes it the lowest lying national capital in the world a ...

, capital of Azerbaijan SSR. In 1980, he graduated cum laude from the Department of History of Azerbaijan State University and in 1982 he started working at the

Archeology Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscap ...

and

Ethnography Ethnography (from Greek ''ethnos'' "folk, people, nation" and ''grapho'' "I write") is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures. Ethnography explores cultural phenomena from the point of view of the subject o ...

Institute of the

Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences (ANAS) ( az, Azərbaycan Milli Elmlər Akademiyası (AMEA)), located in Baku, is the main state research organization and the primary body that conducts research and coordinates activities in the fields of ...

. In 1983-1985, Balayev was a researcher at the Ethnography Department of the

Moscow State University M. V. Lomonosov Moscow State University (MSU; russian: Московский государственный университет имени М. В. Ломоносова) is a public research university in Moscow, Russia and the most prestigious ...

. From 1985 he continued his doctoral studies at the Ethnography Institute of

USSR Academy of Sciences The Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union was the highest scientific institution of the Soviet Union from 1925 to 1991, uniting the country's leading scientists, subordinated directly to the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union (until 1946 ...

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

, graduating with a PhD in History in 1988. In 2001, while in Baku, he defended another dissertation on the ''Azerbaijani Independence Movement in 1917-1918''. He served as the Program Chair at the ''Center for National and International Studied'' and was a member of the Academy of National Sciences of Azerbaijan. Balayev died on 8 December 2021, at the age of 65.

Publications

Books

*''The Azerbaijani National Movement: From Müsavat to the National Front'' (Baku, 1992) *''Azerbaijani Independence Movement in 1917-1918'' (Baku, 1998) *''Ethnolinguistic processes in the 19th-20th centuries'' (Baku, 2005) *''February Revolution and National Achievements'' (Moscow, 2008) *''March 1918: A Defining Moment For Azerbaijan'' (Tbilisi, 2009) *''Mammad Emin Rasulzade (1884-1955) (Moscow, 2009) *''Azerbaijani Turks: National Awareness Processes'' (Baku, 2010)

Monographs

*''History of Azerbaijan. From Ancient Times to the Beginning of the 20th Century'' (Baku, 1993) *''Azerbaijanis. Historical ethnographic overview'' (Baku, 1998) *''Azeris'' (Baku, 2005) Balayev has additionally published many articles on the history of Azerbaijani independence movement in the 1980s-1990s,

Karabakh Karabakh ( az, Qarabağ ; hy, Ղարաբաղ, Ġarabaġ ) is a geographic region in present-day southwestern Azerbaijan and eastern Armenia, extending from the highlands of the Lesser Caucasus down to the lowlands between the rivers Kura (Caspia ...

conflict, regional processes in Caucasus in the United States, Great Britain, Germany, France, Canada, Denmark and Russia. In total, Balayev has authored 72 books, 16 of which were published abroad, and 6 monographs.

References

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