The publications of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation
Since 2004 onwards, the Heydar Aliyev Foundation has been publishing books dedicated
to the life and activities of Azerbaijan’s national leader Heydar Aliyev. In 2005-2007, the
Foundation supported the Azerbaijani, Russian, English and Persian versions of “Heydar
Aliyev” book published in the framework of the Life of Remarkable Persons series. In November
2008,
a two-volume publication “Heydar Aliyev: Aphorisms” comprising dicta and sayings of
the national leader was issued.
In order to pass a true and unbiased message concerning Azerbaijan, a series of booklets
entitled Garabagh Realities was published in 2006. The booklets revealing the history of
Garabagh, the roots of the Armenian-Azerbaijani, Daghlyg Garabagh conflict and the damage
inflicted on the country as a result of it, as well as the tragedy in Khojaly and terrorist attacks
committed by ethnic Armenians in various parts of the world, published in the English, French,
German, Russian, Hungarian and Japanese languages were distributed in a number of countries
abroad.
Another book, The War vs. Cultural and Historic Legacy, published in 2006, provides
detailed information concerning shrines and other historic and cultural landmarks located in
Azerbaijan’s occupied territories.
As a follow-up of The Garabagh Realities, in 2007, the Heydar Aliyev Foundation
published an English version of War against Azerbaijan: Targeting Cultural Heritage, a book
shedding light on the consistent policy of vandalism pursued by Armenia towards Azerbaijan’s
tangible and intangible cultural heritage and its grave outcomes. The book presents the list of
cultural landmarks in each and every occupied administrative district of Azerbaijan, augmented
by maps and video-records depicting the original and present-day conditions of the Azerbaijani
historic and cultural sites located both in the territory of Armenia and the areas currently under
occupation. In the meantime, detailed written and photographic information is provided with
respect to the landmarks being nowadays destroyed as a result of atrocities by the occupying
Armenian forces.
In 2005-2009, the Heydar Aliyev Foundation supported publication of the following works
by a Russian scholar, writer and historian Professor Rudolph Ivanov: Defense of Bayazid: Truth
and Lies, Adjutant General of His Majesty: Epic Quest of Hussein-Khan Nakhchyvanski, On
behalf of the Soviet Union. All the books named above were published in Russian.
In the meantime, the Heydar Aliyev Foundation is actively involved in promoting the most
remarkable pieces of the Azerbaijani literature abroad, and translating valuable foreign literary
works into the Azerbaijani language. The works made available for the Azerbaijani audience in
2005-2008
include “Where Dreams Come True” by Linda Lee Ratto, The Turks and the World:
Our Forgotten History by Murad Adji, Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Pipeline: Oil Window to the West by
S. Frederick Starr and Svante E. Cornell, Adjutant General of His Majesty: Epic on Husseyn-
Khan Nakhchyvanski by Rudolph Ivanov. In 2006, a novel and short stories by Mir-Jalal
Pashayev, were translated and published in Turkish, whereas Gabusnameh epic story was made
available in Russian.