Author's Walk 'Great Baku and Baku'

What to Expect

• At the Heydar Aliyev Cultural Center, recognized as the best architectural structure in the world in 2014, we will talk about the national leader of the Azerbaijani people.
• On the most famous street in Baku, I will show you the old Eclectic-style building where the great physicist Lev Landau lived and tell you about his famous family.
• We will remember the feat of the legendary intelligence officer Richard Sorge at the Richard Sorge monument.
• You will hear about the wealthiest Muslim of tsarist Russia, the philanthropist and oilman Zeynalabdin Taghiyev. The imposing monument dedicated to him in the center of Baku has become a city decoration. We will also visit the building where Taghiyev lived, which now houses the Museum of the History of Azerbaijan.
• In addition, the program includes a visit to the White City, formerly the Black City. Here, in the beautiful Nizami Park, near the Villa Petrolea building, I will talk about the Nobel brothers and their invaluable contribution to Baku's oil history.
• We will stop at the house of the great musicians on Rostropovich Street and talk about the Bakuvian Mstislav Rostropovich.
• We will pay tribute to the memory of Heydar Aliyev and Muslim Magomayev at the Alley of Honor.
• You will learn about the Caucasian Rastrelli, as they called the chief architect of Baku, Josef Goslawski, near the house where he spent his last days.
• You will discover new names of those who stood at the origins of offshore oil production - engineer Pavel Pototsky and geologist Witold Zglenitsky.
• We will not overlook the Gusmanov family - I will show you the house where the famous residents of Baku lived.

Oilman Stefan Rylsky, actor Vladimir Menshov, art historian Vitaly Wolf - this is far from a complete list of famous Baku residents we will remember. They say: 'There are no former Baku residents!' And we remember them.