Aydin Balayev

Aydin Balayev Huseynaga oglu was an Azerbaijani historian, ethnologist, and professor.

Biography

Balayev was born on 19 November 1956, in Baku, capital of Azerbaijan SSR. In 1980, he graduated cum laude from the Department of History of 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 the Moscow State University. From 1985, he continued his doctoral studies at the Ethnography Institute of USSR Academy of Sciences in Moscow, graduating with a PhD in History in 1988.
In 2001, while in Baku, he defended another dissertation on the Azerbaijani Independence Movement in 1917-1918.
He served as the Program Chair at the Center for National and International Studied and was a member of the Academy of National Sciences of Azerbaijan.
Balayev died on 8 December 2021, at the age of 65.

Publications

Books

The Azerbaijani National Movement: From Müsavat to the National Front
Azerbaijani Independence Movement in 1917-1918
Ethnolinguistic processes in the 19th-20th centuries
February Revolution and National Achievements
March 1918: A Defining Moment For Azerbaijan
Mammad Emin Rasulzade
''Azerbaijani Turks: National Awareness Processes''

Monographs

History of Azerbaijan. From Ancient Times to the Beginning of the 20th Century
Azerbaijanis. Historical ethnographic overview
Azeris

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