Photos of Baku, Azerbaijan

[Galik]

Baku

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Buildings in Baku

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Baku State opera and balet theatre

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Modern face of Baku

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Baku International Airport

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"Shehidler xiyabani" and the monument of victims of 20-th of january and Karabagh war.

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Azeri TV tower 310 m

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Nizami metro station in Baku

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[Gatis]

Fine to see this! That monument at the sea is really fine and impressive!!!
I was in Baku for one evening and night before leaving for Turkmenistan. It was long ago - in 1986.
One question - are the oil towers in the sea visible from the places shown in the first pictures?

[doc]

It was amazing international city with beaitiful ancient prevolutionary , early soviet archtecture . Now they are turning it into second rate Istambul
wiht all these cheesy bluestambul stuff..

[KWEST]

beutifull city!!!!!!!!! :cheers:

[Kubster]

wow - totally unexpected

[Sergei]

Nice pictures! Thanks a lot!

[Sergei]

It was amazing international city with beaitiful ancient prevolutionary , early soviet archtecture . Now they are turning it into second rate Istambul
wiht all these cheesy bluestambul stuff..
Whatever that means? :|

[Mr. T]

Beutiful city. The only bad part is all those commieblocks.

[Filip]

Nice city, the subway station's really really nice.:)

[Sergei]

Beutiful city. The only bad part is all those commieblocks.
Some people consider commieblocks the best parts! Not me, just saying. ;)

[VelesHomais]

wow - totally unexpected

I second that!


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I completely did not expect it to look so European. It doesn't look Asian at all. I always wondered what Azerbaijan looks like, because I've seen picture of Armenia.

The metro has 2 lines in Baku, right? And what is it's population?

Welcome to the forum by the way! You're the first person from Caucasus here I think.

[VelesHomais]

Very beautiful, very European.
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[MIMICA]

WOW! :eek2: That city is just about the best thing I've seen today! :)

[BosRoker]

Very nice city. Whenever I tell people Azerjaiban can be considered a part of Europe they think Im crazy. Most Europeans seem to think Baku is a bunch of mud hut and ziggaruts or something, but I think these pictures points out how wrong they are.

[Torn]

Nice pictures and nice city !!!! thanks!!!

[Torn]

NEFT DASHLARI:
A CITY IN THE SEA

Neft Dashlari, 4,000 inhabitants, is located about 40 kms east of Baku in the middle of the sea. This city has all the typical services of each town: post, medicals, cinemas, etc. For travelling here you need a special permission of the Azerbaijan Oil Ministry.
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[Urban Girl]

very beatiful city and european. go azerbaijan:)
and your taxis are tofas?

[Galik]

Thank you so much for these words. I am very glad to hear that you have liked Baku. I am going to show you other pictures of Baku and other parts of Azerbaijan soon. I hope you'll like it! thanks again EUROPE IS NOT EUROPE WITHOUT WHOLE EUROPE!

[Gatis]

:) Go ahead, @Galik
In fact... may be you noticed that in Skyscrapercity forum there are hot debates about th identity of Turkey - whether it is Europe or not. I would think that Azebaijan would be debated even more. Just be prepared.

[Galik]

It is very interesting that our latvian brother have asked such a question. I have said it because Latvia was divided from the other Europe for more than 50 years( Latvia was one of the 15 republics of USSR) and Larvia is not situated in the central or western part of Europe. And if you want to talk about Europe and go deep with this topic lets remember what does Europe mean. In ancient Greece people called - Europe the west from Greece, and Asia the east from Greece. So has everything situated in the east of Greece to be consider Asia today??? I know that it looks like a nonsence, if you are agree with me lets stop this polemic ok? I have just said that EUROPE IS NOT EUROPE WITHOUT WHOLE EUROPE! Nothing else. If someone doesn't want to consider my country as a part of Europe no problem, anyway it is not situated in the centre of Europe. It was always considered both south-east of Europe or west Asia, or something between them. So we have the choice Europe or Asia, and we have choosen Europe. Anyway as you know Europe is ending in Azerbaijan,Russia and Turkey, and if someone wants to leave them in Asia, then it is his own opinion. Azerbaijan has choosen Europe; Azerbaijan is a member of all the european organizations, except EU; Azerbaijan is a democratic and secular country; Azerbaijan has signed a Charty of whole Europe.
Europe is a continent, and the countries of this continent were connected to each other like a chain for ages. Do you know that Azerbaijani states Aggounlu and Garagounlu had embassies( or something like that as it was in 1400-1500 years) in Venice and Genue, Baku had provided 90% of oil in Europe until 20-th century, trade from Asia to Europe went through Azerbaijan, so it connected Europe with Asia.

[Galik]

Azerbaijan is situated in the south-east Europe (Caucasus). Territory of Azerbaijan is 86,6 thousands squire km( 18% is occupied by Armenia). Population is 8 200 000. Azerbaijan has a border with Russia, Georgia, Armenia, Turkey and Iran. The east of the country is washed by Caspian sea. The capital of Azerbaijan is Baku. Population of Baku - 2 000 000( unoficially more than 3 000 000). Other biggest cities are: Ganja( 302 000), Sumgait( 290 000), Sheki, Mingechevir, Nahchivan and others. Azerbaijan became independent in 1991. But after armenian occupation, has lost 18% of its territory( Karabagh and 6 other rayons(districts)). This conflict is still on hold and waiting for its solution.
Budget of Azebaijan is more than 2 billion dollars(2004). Azerbaijan has many natural resourses, among which the most important are petrol and natural gas. Today Azerbaijan is selling its petrol, but not in a big amount, something like 15 milion tons in a year, but it will be about 70 million tons after BTC will opened. Azerbaijan,Georgia nad Turkey are constructed BTC( Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan) pipeline. It will be finished and work in 2005. I will try to provide you with more information soon.

[KWEST]

Azerbaijan is more European than Turkey. :)

[edolen1]

Wow! Looks quite European indeed. I expected only commieblocks, but the historical buildings look excellent!

Hope you'll post info on your country's projects! Also, what's the political situaton in Azerbaijan?

[Gatis]

Waiting for more of Azerbaijan!!!

[LtBk]

Nice pics but too bad Azerbaijan is one of most corupt nations in the world.

[Kommentare]

Baku is a great city, but it has one bad thing : an abandoned oil platforms that is seen from entire coastline and beaches of the city.

http://www.aliciapatterson.org/APF2003/Greene/Greene14s.jpg
http://www.bbc.co.uk/russian/images/oil_baku_150.jpg
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[Allan]

Azerbaijan is more European than Turkey. :)

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Nice pictures.
Thanks and we expect more.

[KWEST]

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Typical reaction from a desperate wannabe :|

[Allan]

Typical reaction from a desperate wannabe :|





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[messiah]

Azerbaijan is more European than Turkey. :)

Azerbaijan = Turkey
Turkey = Azerbaijan

We both aren't europeans we are turks!!But KWESTis right Azerbaycan looks more european than Turkey.

[Urban Girl]

GO AZERBAIJAN
we love you!!!!

[Sergei]

GO AZERBAIJAN
we love you!!!!
Do you people come in pairs?
I mean, whenever one of you comes into a thead, the other one follows. And you have the exact same thing to say.

[Galik]

Thanks to everyone! I am very happy that you have liked Azerbaijan! :) That is very good. As for Tofas taxis, here in Baku, almost all the taxis are Tofases and were imported from Turkey.
p.s.New Baku pics and photos of Ganja will come soon!

[wanton6]

http://images.google.com.tr/images?q=tbn:FGS-JbvO0ikJ:www.ipc-ps.info/ipc_a/ipc_a-
http://www.haberanaliz.com/almanak_foto/turk_bayrak.jpg :cheers1:http://www.haberanaliz.com/almanak_foto/azerbaycan_bayrak.jpg
ONE NATION, TWO COUNTRIES, BOTH EUROPEAN

[Galik]

The building of Azerbaijan Academy of Science - is under restoration, in this picture you see it before restoration.

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[Galik]

The national bank of Azerbaijan Republic( as you see the building has 2 colour gold and black - "black gold" - petrol :)

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[Galik]

Fountain squire as seen from Radisson SAS Hotel

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Torgovaya street

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Torgovaya street at night

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[Galik]

Baku is a great city, but it has one bad thing : an abandoned oil platforms that is seen from entire coastline and beaches of the city.

http://www.aliciapatterson.org/APF2003/Greene/Greene14s.jpg
http://www.bbc.co.uk/russian/images/oil_baku_150.jpg
http://www.foe.co.uk/campaigns/climate/images/baku_ceyhan/baku_oil_port_azerbaijan.jpg
http://www.itc.nl/research/_images/baku_oilfield.jpg


These pictures are too old! I think 70-th years of 20-th century. But i am not going to lie, in sope parts of Baku suburbs you can see this, but this is reducing very fast. Anyway our country is not going to pump petrol in the seaside, for us it is the time to work in the sea( far from Baku).

[Galik]

new pictures soon!

[Galik]

There are some other pictures from Baku. Unfortunately the size is small, because those photos are not mine and i have taken them from other site. But anyway the pictures are nice.

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[Aleks011]

Great pictures... very nice! And some cool green parts as well.

[LatvianGG]

Photobucket= :toilet: :wallbash: :down: :skull: :bash:

[Galik]

Dear LatvianGG do you know how to make it work? :( I am so upset down because all the photos became inactive :( if you know please help me!

[Gatis]

It's not your fault. Photobucket has invented some restrictions - if your pictures are accessed "too much" by all of us then at certain moment nearer to the end of month they are "switched out". Wait for the 1st December, and here they would be again.

Better option - upload images at www.imageshack.us

[Singidunum]

www.imageshack.us once turned py pics to gay porn so I am very carreful with it.

[ameer]

It's fine Galik... we just have to right click on the pictures and click properties and copy/paste the URL... nice pics.... Baku is a very beautiful city. I'm impressed....

[VelesHomais]

bump, I think this city deserves to be viewed again :)

[Maksym]

Baku was always an important city under the Tsar’s and Soviet Union. This is deeply reflected in the richness of the architecture and people. Europe cannot be unified without Azerbaijan! About Azerbaijan being Turkish, is this more cultural? Azerbaijan (also Turkey) strikes me more as a Caucasus country and European, rather then a Central Asian nation.

[thebackdoorman]

I like Azerbaijan, and i think that the Caucasus nations belong to Europe, well if they want to. I do not view Europe as a fortress that must be defended, instead i think the more countires join us the richer we will be, at least culturally.
Baku looks great. I hope the evironment will also be great.

[MIMICA]

I like Azerbaijan, and i think that the Caucasus nations belong to Europe, well if they want to. I do not view Europe as a fortress that must be defended, instead i think the more countires join us the richer we will be, at least culturally.
Baku looks great. I hope the evironment will also be great.


I agree completely! I believe that all those countries, especially Azerbaijan ARE in Europe, and people that keep saying they aren't haven't the slightest idea what they're talking about.
Baku, as well of the rest of Azerbaijan is VERY European. It has those oriental buildings, and a great influence in European culture. The question I had was, is there any way for Azerbaijan to join the EU? That is, if the majority of the country would like to...

[VelesHomais]

My opinion is that Azerbaijan has nothing in common with central asian countries where people ride on camels.

This is European as it gets. However I doubt it will join EU but will definitely be in some important neighbour-program of cooperation.
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[Football Rules]

Baku certainly looks very beautiful and european of course.
I agree with Stanislav , i think that Azerbaijan's exeptance in the EU all depends in Turkey.
If Turkey is allowed in the EU then Azerbaijan will be there too.
I am pleasantly surprised , very good pics.

[KhApZ!]

mmm nice indeed, These pics are marvellous! only this is i heard Azerbaijan has 49% poverty and is one of the 10 most corrupt nations is Europe :(

Is this true?