Aydin Balayev

Aydin Balayev Huseynaga oglu (; 19 November 1956 – 8 December 2021) was an Azerbaijani historian, ethnologist and professor.

Biography
Balayev was born on November 19, 1956 in Baku, capital of Azerbaijan. In 1980, he graduated from the Department of History of the Azerbaijan State University and in 1982 he started working at the Archeology and Ethnography Institute of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences. In 1983-1985, Balayev was a researcher at the Ethnography Department of Moscow State University. From 1985 he continued his doctoral studies at the Ethnography Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Moscow, graduating with a PhD in History in 1988.

Balayev wrote and published many articles on the history of the Azerbaijani independence movement in the 1980s and 1990s, and the Karabakh conflict, in the United States, Great Britain, Germany, France, Canada, Denmark and Russia. In total, Balayev wrote 72 books, 16 of which were published abroad, and 6 monographs.

Publications
Books
The Azerbaijani National Movement: From Müsavat to the National Front (Baku, 1992)
Azerbaijani Independence Movement in 1917-1918 (Baku, 1998)
Ethnolinguistic processes in the 19th-20th centuries (Baku, 2005)
February Revolution and National Achievements (Moscow, 2008)
March 1918: A Defining Moment For Azerbaijan (Tbilisi, 2009)
Mammad Emin Rasulzade (1884-1955) (Moscow, 2009)
Azerbaijani Turks: National Awareness Processes (Baku, 2010)

Monographs
History of Azerbaijan. From Ancient Times to the Beginning of the 20th Century (Baku, 1993)
Azerbaijanis. Historical ethnographic overview (Baku, 1998)
Azeris (Baku, 2005)

References

Category:Azerbaijani historians
Category:Azerbaijani writers
Category:Azerbaijani academics
Category:Ethnologists
Category:1956 births
Category:2021 deaths
Category:People from Baku
Category:20th-century Azerbaijani people
Category:21st-century Azerbaijani people