THOSE WHO INSPIRE US: TOUR OF BALAKHANY WITH THE INSPIRING FUAD AKHUNDOV.

Balakhani is a place where local people hid Stalin during the revolutions.
Balakhani is the first monument in the Muslim east.
Balakhany is the first football club.
Our journey through the wonderful village began with a monument to the outstanding satirist of Azerbaijani literature, Mirza Alekper Sabir. “Who will imprison him, he’s a monument!” says the catchphrase.
However, this definitely does not apply to the monument to Mirza Alekper Sabir, which now sits in one of the parks near the Ichari Sheher. Mirza Alekper spent the last year of his life in Balakhani. While teaching at a local school, Sabir also found reasons for satire, once saying the phrase: Balaxanların Azanı fitdir! – which translated means: for the Balakhans, Azan is a whistle. This was explained by the fact that early in the morning people got up and went to work in the oil fields, and one whistle informed the workers about the beginning and end of the working day.


This creation was proof of the genius and talent of the creator.


His wife, who was a true artist’s wife, created for him such an atmosphere around him in which all he could do was create. And he did it!
And everyone knew that they should go to Sabsai through Sabsikha.
And who would have thought that the first film shot of a gushing oil well, and later the first film show in the history of Azerbaijan in the summer of 1898, also refers to Balakhani. The frame was shot by Alexander Mikhailovich Mishon, a Russian photographer and cinematographer. He left a rich photographic heritage, and only one photograph of himself. Until now, in independent Azerbaijan, August 2 is celebrated as Cinema Day.
Well, world history is familiar with the village of Balakhani thanks to the Nobel brothers.
Nobel, Ludwig Emmanuilovich – an outstanding personality!
By order of Ludwig Nobel, engineer V. G. Shukhov built the first Russian oil pipeline at the oil fields in the Baku region from Balakhani.
The Swedish and Russian engineer, inventor, entrepreneur and philanthropist Mr. Nobel, despite all his achievements, was a very modest person, and when he was told: but you are a scientist, he restrainedly replied that dogs can be scientists if they are trained well.”
Our history is the heritage of centuries; learning the customs, traditions and life of our ancestors is a particularly pleasant pleasure. After all, those who are close to history are given inspiration and strength.
