The Armenian Press of Baku has been in service for more than 100 years.
This press published its first Armenian periodical of Baku Haykakan Ashkharh (Armenian : Հայկական Աշխարհ, The Armenian World) in 1874. It was a literary and pedagogic journal, which was originally published in Tiflis (Tbilisi), then moved to Shusha in 1874, then to Yelisavetpol (Ganja) in 1875, then to Baku in 1877, and Erivan (Yerevan) in 1879. [1]
In years of 1877–1920, there were more than 60 Armenian historical newspapers published in Baku. However, there are other Armenian newspapers and journals found in Baku which are not the historical types. They include: [2] [3]
Stepan Georgevich Shaumian was an Armenian Bolshevik revolutionary and politician active throughout the Caucasus. His role as a leader of the Russian Revolution in the Caucasus earned him the nickname of the "Caucasian Lenin", a reference to Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin.
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