Entrepreneurs' Day
According to the Decree of President Ilham Aliyev dated April 21, 2016, April 25 is celebrated as Entrepreneurs Day in Azerbaijan. The establishment of Entrepreneurs' Day is a striking example of the attention and care shown by the head of state to the development of entrepreneurship, especially in the non-oil sector, as well as the high importance attached to the activities of entrepreneurs in the socio-economic sphere, in the economic development of the country and provision of employment. Entrepreneurship in Azerbaijan has a long history and received great development in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
World Intellectual Property Day
World IP Day is celebrated every year on April 26. The event was established by the General Assembly of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) in 2000. On this day, April 26, in 1970, that the international Convention came into force, according to which the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) was established. The Republic of Azerbaijan has been a member of WIPO since 1995 and has acceded to its 16 agreements relating to the protection of intellectual property rights and related rights. In 2006, a Cooperation Program between WIPO and the Republic of Azerbaijan was signed.
The Bolshevik intervention - the fall of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic
In its policy towards the Caucasus, especially towards Azerbaijan, Soviet Russia acted as the successor of Tsarist Russia. Baku was significant for the Bolsheviks not only because of its oil and exceptional economic potential but also as a political center of the entire Near and Middle East. Although the Baku Council of People's Commissars, led by the Dashnak-Bolshevik S. Shaumyan, was overthrown in 1918, the struggle for Baku always remained in focus. In the spring of 1919, the Baku Bolsheviks expanded their activities against the government of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic.
The beginning of the road to the Great Victory - the April battles
During the night and day of April 1-2, 2016, Azerbaijani positions and settlements along the entire front were subjected to heavy artillery fire by the Armenian armed forces. To prevent this attack and ensure the safety of the civilian population, the command of the Azerbaijani Armed Forces resolved to take urgent countermeasures in the Aghdara-Tartar-Aghdam and Khojavand-Fuzuli directions. As a result, 6 tanks, up to 15 artillery pieces and fortified engineering installations belonging to the Armenians were destroyed, as well as more than a hundred of their military personnel were killed and neutralized.
Prominent Azerbaijani writer and playwright Najaf-bek Vezirov
Najaf bey Fatali bey oglu Vazirov, the playwright, publicist, and the theater figure was born on April 2, 1854 in Shusha. He received his primary education in Shusha and secondary education in Baku. In 1878, he graduated from the Petrovsky-Razumovsky Agricultural Academy in Moscow. N. Vazirov is one of the founders of the Azerbaijani professional theater. For the first time in 1873, together with Hasan bey Zardabi, he staged Mirza Fatali Akhundov’s comedies "The vizier of Lankaran khan" and "Haji Gara". In 1875 it began to be published in the Akinchi newspaper.
Prominent Azerbaijani composer Asaf Zeynalli
The work of Asaf Zeynalli, one of the prominent figures of Azerbaijani musical art, a skilled promoter of folk music, and a talented composer, forms valuable chapters in the treasury of our national musical culture. Asaf Zeynalabdin oghlu Zeynalli was born on April 5, 1909 in Derbent. In the early 1920s, the Zeynalli family moved to Baku. From 1922 to 1926, he studied at the Baku Music College in trumpet, cello, and piano classes. In 1926, he enrolled in the orchestra faculty of the Azerbaijan State Conservatoire and later continued his education at the composition faculty.
Prominent poet, state and public figure of Azerbaijan Molla Panah Vagif
Molla Panah Vagif occupies a prominent place in the history of Azerbaijan due to his literary and political activities. He was a great poet, the founder of new realism genre in the Azerbaijani poetry and also a prominent statesman and diplomat, eshikagasi - the minister of foreign affairs in the Karabakh khanate. Vagif was born in 1717 in the village of Salahly in the Kazakh district of Azerbaijan. When an approximately forty years old he had to move to Shusha because of disorders in Kazakh at that time. Soon after coming to Shusha Vagif became popular and beloved among the people due to his knowledge and talents. There was even a saying: "Not every literate person can be Vagif".
Prominent Azerbaijani poet Afzaladdin Khagani
The world-renowned Azerbaijani poet and thinker Afzaladdin Khagani Shirvani was born in 1126 in Malham in Shamakhi. His real name was Ibrahim. Khagani is his pen name, Afzaladdin his nickname, while Shirvani derives from his place of origin. Khagani lost his father at the age of 8 and was raised under the care and upbringing of his uncle Kafiaddin Omar Osman oghlu, a well-known scientist and physician of his time. Khagani showed great poetic talent from a young age and was invited to the court of the Shirvanshahs where he gained great fame. Afzaladdin Khagani was Azerbaijan’s brightest and most powerful literature representative before Nizami Ganjavi.
People's Artist of Azerbaijan Sidgi Ruhulla
Ruhulla Fatulla oghlu Akhundov (Sidgi Ruhulla) was born on April 9, 1886, in Buzovna, Baku uezd, into a teacher's family. Although his real name was Ruhulla and his surname Akhundov, he adopted the nickname Sidgi on the advice of his friends after skillfully playing the role of Sidgi Bey (Sıtkı Bey) in Namık Kemal’s drama "Vatan yahut Silistre" in his youth. He received his primary education from a village teacher. His father, Molla Fatulla Akhundov, played a major role in his son's spiritual development. Molla Fatulla, who had a great passion for science, art, and poetry, would teach in Baku during the winter and in the village of Buzovna during the summer.
Builders' Day
Today is the professional holiday of builders in our country. According to a decree signed by President Ilham Aliyev on December 16, 2009, April 10 is celebrated annually as Builders' Day in our republic. The signing of such a decree by the head of state primarily reflects the value placed on those working in the construction industry. Our country, with its ancient historical traditions in construction and architecture, has always attracted global attention with its material cultural monuments. Icherisheher and its valuable landmarks, such as the Maiden Tower and the Shirvanshahs' Palace Complex, have been included in UNESCO's World Heritage List.