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Department of “The folklore of ceremony”
Phone (+994 12) 4929248 
Fax (+994 12) 4981621 
E-mail merasim_folkloru@folklore.sciense.az 
Chief 

Agaverdi Sarkhan oglu Khalilov  

Doctor of Philosopy on Philology, Professor Assistant

Total number of employees 15
Basic activity directions   Making notes of Azerbaijan folk ceremonies, games and plays, investigation of their genesis, structure and typology; investigation of folklore aspects such as some folklore spiritual institutes and values of folklore and ethnograpy as branches of diffision, folk knowledge and believes, archaic ritual elements in folklore, traditional holidays, traditions, behaviour, morality and other ethnic-national characters, problems of family and state-system, national dresses, meal culture and etc.       
Main scientific achievements  Folklore termins, Baku, Nurlan, 2010.

A. Khalil. Spring holidays of Turkic nations, Baku, 2012