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burned, total damage 300,000 rubles.
69. Kerbelai Agha Kerbelai Assad Mehdigulu oghlu: store and
household looted and burned down, total damage 500,000 rub-
les.
70. Mehrali Meshadi Abdulhamid oghlu: killed.
71. Youssif Alakbar oghlu: store and household looted and
burned down, total damage 150,000 rubles.
72. Aghabala, killed, his sons Hassandadash, Alibala, Abdulhus-
seyn, Aghabala: households plundered, total damage 150,000
rubles.
73. Zeynalabdin Meshadi Baghir oghlu, robbed, total damage
14,000 rubles.
74. Abdulsattar Alasgar oghlu: store and household looted and
burned down, total damage 75,000.
75. Abbasjafar Meshadi Mammad oghlu, robbed and murdered.
76. Gasymgulu Kazym oghlu: store plundered, total damage
50,500 rubles
77. Meshadi Abdulgasym Kerbelai Suleyman oghlu: household
stuff plundered and looted, grocery-ware (sugar, tea, etc.) and
other personal assets stolen, total damage 12,500 rubles.
In Section 2 of Guba the overall number of Guba town resi-
dents murdered by firearms or daggers is 250, the dead bodies
remained in the streets uncollected for 5 more days. The residents
were collecting themwith just one bullock cart and burying some-
times up to 5 dead bodies in one grave. 300 more persons passed
away from shock in this section of the town only.
All together, the death toll is 550 persons.
Parish mullah of Magal (neighborhood) No.2, Guba
Mussarza Asgarzadeh (signed in Arabic charters)
December 23, 1918
Reference: SARA, f.1061, op.1, d.96, ll. 79-85, 147-148
Documents on the Devastation of Guba
Records of Damages Suffered by Residents of the Town of Guba