Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences

Central Scientific Library of ANAS hosted an event titled "Azerbaijan Democratic Republic;s hereditary is our national memory".

The event was organized on the occasion of presentation of valuable archival documents - manuscripts, books, magazines, maps by Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (ADR) - by Afgan Valiyev, Doctor of Sociology.

The director of the library, PhD in medicine Leyla Imanova assessed the presentation of such valuable archival documents to the library in the year of the 100th anniversary of the ADR as a high degree of confidence. He said that according to the recommendation of the vice-president of ANAS, academician Isa Habibbeyli, the documents will be included in the National Digital Memory of CSL.

Then, A.Valiyev pointed out that the tricolor flag, which was brought to the hall at the opening session of the parliament at December 7, 1918, was postponed by the Bolsheviks on April 27, 1920.

Commenting on the importance of granting valuable archival documents to CSL, Valiyev stressed the importance of collecting necessary documents in the libraries and archives of Azerbaijan.

Deputy Director of the Institute of Literature named after Nizami Ganjavi of ANAS, doctor of philological sciences Alizade Askerli said that the archive documents presented to the library have created enormous opportunities for readers and researchers.

It should be noted that the archive obtained by the confidence of the emigrants while studying the history of the Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan and the flag hanged in the Parliament of Azerbaijan in 1918-1920 was brought to Azerbaijan by A.Valiyev. The flag was handed over by A.Valiyev to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Azerbaijan Novruz Mammadov on May 24, 2018.

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