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THEMATIC CATALOGUE
BAKU ARMENIAN PHILANTHROPIC ASSOCIATION IN THE NAME OF ST. GRIGOR THE ENLIGHTENER OF ARMENIA: The Association was established in May, 1864 in Baku upon the initiative of D. Rostomian, a doctor, S. Zohrapian, a civil servant in assistance with the local well-known and wealthy Armenians. It was the first philanthropic organization in Transcaucasus. The objective of the Association was to propagate education and literacy. However, its performance encompassed a
wider range of activities, including the spheres of education, culture and
medicine. The Association performed at the expense of the donations and to
some extent, the membership fees. In 1870 the Association had its publishing
house and library. Its representatives participated in the administration
of the town and were members of the Town Council. Later the Migration and
Women's Committees were created. The Association had its branch in Shemakh
town. In 1899 the number of the members of the Association reached 500. Major
assistance was provided to those who suffered from World War I, refugees and
orphans, as well as the victims of the massacre in Baku in 1918. In September,
1918 the property of the Association was plundered by Turkish Tatars and Turkish
Askers who occupied Baku. The Association ceased its activity after the establishment
of the Soviet power in Azerbaijan in 1920.
BUREAU FOR MEASUREMENT OF LOSSES OF THE ARMENIANS IN WORLD
WAR I: The Bureau was established at the end of 1918 in Tiflis by the
Council of Countrymen associations which was chaired by Hovhannes Toumanian,
a famous Armenian poet. The Bureau was structured as follows:
1. Public-Historical Department which was involved in the study and documentation
of the history of the Armenian issue. The department was headed by the famous
historian Leo (Arakel Babakhanian),
2. Criminal-Investigation Department, headed by T. Hovhannisian, a lawyer,
3. Economic Department, headed by A. Atanesian, an agronomist,
4. Military-Historical Department, headed by A. Kulebiakin, Major General
of the Russian Army. According to rough estimations, the material losses of
the Armenian population of Transcaucasus in World War I were 8 bln rubles
(estimations are based on the rates as of 1919). The Bureau ceased its performance
in the middle of 1919 due to the insufficiency of resources.
BORDERS OF SOVIET AZERBAIJAN were established in 1921, in the streamline
of the Bolshevik plans on exporting the revolution to the Moslem countries
of the East, basing on the multilateral inter-state agreements and covenants
and the understanding that the issue of the annexed Armenian territories was
the internal affair of AzSSR.
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