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Baku Soviet Architecture Gudied Walking Tour
Baku, Azerbaijan
$70
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Overview
Over three hours we will walk into social and cultural formation of Baku City Centre, Fountains Square (then Parapet), Nizami (then Torgovaya), 28 May and Khagani (Xəqani; then Molokanskaya) streets, based on exquisite life stories, urban legends and myths relates to love and hatred, rise and fall, happiness and tragedy, turmoil and tranquility, contrast and harmony from the confluent life of oil barons and everyday people throughout last 100 years of the city.
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Baku Soviet Architecture Gudied Walking Tour
Tour guide
Language: English
Human tour guide
Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes
- We finish tour with a cup of local tea at local coffee shop.
- Private transportation
- Lunch
Meeting point
We meet out front of Icherisheher Metrostation. The guide carries a red umbrella with a badge.
Return details
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Standing just outside the city walls, travelers enjoy views back toward the historic core while exploring monumental buildings shaped by the political upheavals of the 1920s. This area reflects a time of transition — from empire to independence, and soon after, Soviet rule — when architecture was used to express power, order, and modernity.
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Nizami Museum of LiteratureHere we discuss how socialist realism, contributed to nation-building process for Azerbaijanis, but also art and architecture in Azerbaijan SSR.
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Nasimi MonumentIntersection of Samad Vurgun and Nizami streets is one of the busiest streets of Baku with great view of Stalinist Architecture from 1950s.
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Nizami StreetNizami street is the central shopping and entertaining core of modern day Baku. 800 m of 3.5 km long street is traffic free and it is one of the most busiest part of the city with full of people who take their time after work to stress out and relax in restaurant, shops and concert halls and theatres.
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Azerbaijan State Academic Opera and Ballet TheaterOver half an hour we will walk through cultural sections of Nizami street, where Song Theatre, National Library, Opera and Ballet Theatre and Lev Landau, Nobel Prize Winner, to talk rich artistic cultural heritage of Baku.
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The street and the park historically known as Molokanskaya as it named after spiritual Christians exiled to Azerbaijan from Russia. It's been one of the central streets of downtown Baku. Here locates (a) Khagani (formerly Molokan) Park and (b) Russian Drama Theatre. We will discuss Russians and Russian language and Azerbaijani Society.
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Government HouseGigantic and Iconic Soviet Landmark in Baku
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Baku BoulevardDənizkənarı Milli Park, also known as National Park is a promenade established in 1909, which runs parallel to Baku's seafront. Its history goes back more than 100 years, to a time when Baku oil barons built their mansions along the Caspian shore and when the seafront was artificially built up inch by inch.
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Baku Soviet Architecture Gudied Walking Tour
Baku, Azerbaijan
$70
This is an experience gift voucher. The recipient will book the experience after
they redeem the gift voucher.
How it works?
01
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You choose from 10,000+ experience gifts
02
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Recipient books the experience and creates unforgettable memories!