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inflicted to the Muslim population of Guba and the Uyezd amounts
to 121,824,819.00 rubles.
All these figures from the AHIC documents are presented in
Annex 3 General Data on Human Casualties and Property Damage
Inflicted to the Population of the Town of Guba and Guba Uyezd Resul-
ting from Pogroms of the Muslims in April-May 1918.
The Collection also includes the following Annexes:
Annex 1: Ethnic and Religious Composition of the Town of Guba
and Guba Uyezd, 1917, providing a clear picture of correlation of various
groups of the population in the town and uyezd prior to the events;
Annex 2: The Log of Guba Uyezd Villages Affected by Pogroms in April-
May 1918, providing the list of villages and settlements devastated during
the massacre together with names of relevant communities and police
precincts they belonged to as well as the ethnic origin of local residents;
Annex 3: The Map of Guba Uyezd indicating all villages of the area
affected by pogroms.
The Index of Place Names, also included in the book, provides infor-
mation regarding all settlements of Guba Uyezd including those not at-
tacked by the Armenian militants and the present-day communities which
were a part of Guba Uyezd back in 1918. A noteworthy detail is that ma-
jority of places mentioned as ‘no longer existing’ were in most cases totally
destroyed by the Armenian squads and never restored afterwards. The In-
dex provides information of all other places mentioned in the files.
Footnotes are numberedwith sourcesmentioned in the end of the text.
The language of historic documents preserved intact.
The Collection also provides official constituent documents adop-
ted by the Democratic Republic of Azerbaijan (1918-1920) to form the
Ad Hoc Investigation Commission on July 15, 1918.
The photos depict yester-year Guba, representatives of various
ethnic groups residing in Guba and villages of Guba Uyezd, Guba resi-
dents interviewed by the AHIC, certain AHIC documents and letters
of the Armenian residents of Kilvar village, as well as the mass burials
found in the course of archaeological excavations in Guba in 2007.
Solmaz Roustamova-Tohidi,
Ph.D.in History, Professor, Senior Researcher,
the Z.Buniyadov Institute of Oriental Studies,
the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan
Events of 1918 in Guba in the Context of Plans for Mass Extermination
of Azerbaijan’s Muslim Population