Today, Azerbaijan is celebrating the Water Tuesday (“Su Charshanbasi”), one of the four festive Tuesdays before the most-loved ancient holiday of Azerbaijani people - Novruz Holiday. Azerbaijani people has a number of holidays celebrated ...

The South Caucasus country – Azerbaijan is home to several regions with residents who live 100 years and even older, including Lankaran, Karabakh. However, Lerik is recognized to have the highest concentration of centenarians. In this emerald land high above the clouds in the Talysh Mountains, the people seem to have ...

“This is my third visit to Azerbaijan. We came here to familiarize ourselves with the history of Karabakh”, Dutch traveler Boris Kester told AZERTAC, as he visited Azerbaijani liberated territories, including the city of Shusha. Expressing ...

Ahead of the 30th anniversary of the Khojaly genocide, international travelers have kicked off their visit to the liberated territories of Azerbaijan. During the three-day trip, travelers from 21 countries will visit Fuzuli, Shusha, Aghdam, Kalbajar, Gubadli and Zangilan districts, and eye witness the atrocities committed by Armenians ...

Shusha – the pearl of Karabakh, which was liberated from Armenia's decades-long illegal occupation on November 8, 2020, and declared as the “Cultural Capital of Azerbaijan” by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, has always been distinguished by its unique urban planning architecture ...

According to the plan of “Sudden inspection of combat readiness in formations and units”, the units are being inspected by the Central Staff of the Combined Arms Army. This time, one of the tank units was suddenly inspected, the Ministry of Defense told AZERTAC. The inspected ...

The memory of martyrs was honored and the national anthem of Azerbaijan was performed at a ceremony held at the Combined Arms Army of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan’s Ministry of Defense told AZERTAC. The young ...

Representatives of French media organization ERE TV have visited the liberated Aghdam district, the Special Representation of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan in the liberated part of the Karabakh Economic Region tweeted on its official account. “During the visit ...

During the ceremonies held in regard to the beginning of the new training year 2022 it was noted that improvement of the training of military-professional and physical endurance of military personnel, command and control bodies of subunits, units and formations, as well as, level of task improvement required for combat and other missions ...

The territory of the “Araz Valley Economic Zone” Industrial Park, located in Azerbaijan’s Jabrayil district covering area of 200 hectares, has been completely cleared of mines and unexploded ordnances, press service of the Ministry of Economy told AZERTAC ...

A groundbreaking ceremony has been held for a highway bridge, which will be built over the Astarachay river. Delegations led by Azerbaijan’s Deputy Prime Minister Shahin Mustafayev and Minister of Roads and Urban Development of Iran Rostam Ghasemi attended the event ...

A delegation led by Iranian Minister of Roads and Urban Development, Co-Chair of the Iran-Azerbaijan Intergovernmental Joint Commission on Economic Cooperation Rostam Ghasemi has visited Azerbaijan. The Iranian delegation, together with a delegation led by Deputy Prime Minister of Azerbaijan Shahin Mustafayev ...

“During the 30-year longing for Shusha, I always believed we will be back to our ancestral lands. Thankfully, we are blessed to witness these days”, said resident of the city of Shusha Kamil Rustamov. Noting that he left Shusha when he was 35, Rustamov expressed ...

A delegation led by Iran’s Minister of Roads and Urban Development Rostam Ghasemi has today arrived in Azerbaijan for a visit, Azerbaijani Ambassador to Iran Ali Alizade tweeted. A welcome ceremony was held for the Iranian ...

At the events organized in the formations and military units, training-educational center located in the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, the blessed memory of shehids (martyrs) was honored and the national anthem was performed, Azerbaijan`s Ministry of Defense told AZERTAC. During the speeches, it was noted that on January 20, 1990, sons of the Motherland ...

Another school building was constructed in Gazakh district on the initiative of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation as part of the “New school for new Azerbaijan” programme. The building of the Sarivalli village secondary school named after Shahnabat Nasibov is designed for 220 pupils ...

After the liberation of Shusha, one of the significant centers of Azerbaijan’s historical, cultural, political and social life, the cradle of art and culture and the source of our pride, AZERTAC correspondents visited the homeland of Panahali Khan many times to make numerous reports and news of different topics ...

A new building of the secondary school No 1 in the city of Goranboy was commissioned. The previous school building was constructed in 1937, having 40 classrooms. As the school building had been physically worn out and become useless, a new building, meant for 700 pupils ...

In 2022, the Azerbaijani people will celebrate the 270th anniversary of Shusha the foundation of which was laid by Azerbaijani Karabakh khanate's Panahali khan in 1752. Taking into account this glorious history and in order to accelerate the restoration of Shusha, President Ilham Aliyev declared 2022 as the “Year of Shusha” in Azerbaijan ...