An early Soviet housing experiment in Baku, the Amerikanka reflects how American industrial housing models briefly shaped workers’ living spaces in the 1920s before being adapted to Soviet social ideals.
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Soviet Mosaics of Baku: Art, Ideology, and Urban Memory
Soviet mosaics in Baku are fading urban treasures. This article explores their artistic legacy and highlights ongoing efforts to preserve them as vital pieces of Azerbaijan’s cultural and architectural history.
Top 10 Modern Mugham Jazz Fusions
My list of a top 10 Mugham Jazz fusions/improvisation by Azerbaijani jazzmen for cultural experience in music venues of Baku.
The Hardest Part of Travelling that No One Talks About
A sensation felt as lost upon a return to your hometown?
A Boring Day
A Normal Day of My life in Gedabey
“Quite an experience to live in fear isn’t it? That’s what it is to be a slave”
Blade Runner Roy’s final monologue is a powerful
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