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Every other building or street is name after the Aliev family!! A familiar cult of personality. You can imagine a massive name change once the regime is changed!!Autocratic rulers are lousy students of history, they never learn! This is H Aliev Saray, a concert hall.

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Baki Soviet, or the old communist era parliament, now housing the Azarbaijan Academy of Sciences. It was built adjacent to the the city wall behind it.

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Ir is still called by its Soviet name, Krupskaya (Lenin's wife) Maternity Hospital.

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We found the hospital where my mom was born and where her late older sister did her residency before the family left for Iran.

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Soviet architecture.

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Walking in Icheri Shahr.

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The dome of the inner quarter from the courtyard of Divan Khaneh.

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Hammam

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Tomb of a Sufi master in the palace courtyard.

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The royal bathhouse (hammam).

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The tomb is actually hidden in a basement under the structure.

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Divan Khaneh literary means 'the house of administration'. photo from the courtyard.

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