"The Security Council,...
- Noting with alarm the escalation in armed hostilities and, in particular, the latest invasion of the Kelbadjar district of the Republic of Azerbaijan by local Armenian forces,...
1. Demands the immediate cessation of all hostilities and hostile acts with a view to establishing a durable cease-fire, as well as immediate withdrawal of all occupying forces from the Kelbadjar district and other recently occupied areas of Azerbaijan;..."
from UN RESOLUTION 822, adopted by the Security Council at its 3205th meeting, on 30 April 1993

See also Azerbaijan-Armenia (Karabakh) conflict

Vagif (1717-1797) 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 Azerbaijanian poetry and also a prominent statesman and diplomat, eshikagasi - the minister of foreign affairs in the Karabakh khanate...
For more information see next links:

• Vaqif, Molla Panah

April 9, 2000 Azerbaijan celebrated the anniversary of the 7th-century epic work "Dede Gorgud".
Every nation has at least one "mother-of-all-books," a work that reveals the identity, values and character of the people who live there. This book for Azerbaijan is the Dada Gorgud (Dede Korkut) epic (Kitab-i Dede Gorgud)...
For more information see next links:

• "Mother-of-All-Books"
• A Bride for Khan Turali
• The Book of Dede Gorgu

Nariman Kerbalay Nadzhaf-ogly NARIMANOV, born April 14 1870, Tiflis, Russian Empire, died March 19, 1925, Moscow, SSSR.
Narimanov - the first Communist leader of Azerbaijanwas a very famous figure who was sometimes called the "Lenin of the East"...

• Writing Azerbaijan's History
• National Politics Web Guide: N.Narimanov

On April 17, 1999, the Azerbaijan International Operating Company and its affiliate the Georgian Pipeline Company celebrated the completion of the Western Route Export Pipeline along with the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan and the Georgian International Oil Corporation. The celebration also marked the official inauguration of the oil terminal in Supsa, Georgia...

• Celebrating the Western Pipeline Route to Georgia
• Fuel and Energy. Aerbaijan Internet Links
• Caspian oil and gas. Daily reviw

Ali Agha Shikhlinski (1865-1943) was known as the "God of Artillery" in the Russian Army, hero of the famous 'Brusilov Incursion', first Azerbaijani to receive both French top honors of Order of the Legion and Legion Crest, Deputy Minister of Defense of ADR, saved from NKVD purges by Dr. Nariman Narimanov...

• Azerbaijani Generals...
• Writing Azerbaijan's History
• Artillery (Army) General Ali Aga Ismail oglu Shikhlinski

On April 28, 1920 the first armed train of the 11th Red Army entered Baku. First Demacratic Azerbaijan Republic fell, thus Soviet power was established in Azerbaijan...
For more information see:

• The downfall of Azerbaijan Democratic Republic