Constitutional-Legal Basis of Archival Work in Azerbaijan

Authors : İrada Ziyadkhan Bayramova

Pages : 1929-1939

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Publication Date : 2024-11-06

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :The National Archives Department of the Republic of Azerbaijan is a state department established by the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Heydar Aliyev, on the basis of the General Archives Department under the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Azerbaijan with the decree No. 816 dated December 2, 2002, \"On the improvement of archive work in the Republic of Azerbaijan\". Archiving activities in Azerbaijan began in the first year of the establishment of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic, on December 6, 1920, with the decree \"On the establishment of the Unified State Archive Fund and the organization of the central state archive under the People\'s Education Commissariat\" signed by Nariman Narimanov, the chairman of the Revolutionary Committee. In accordance with the mentioned decree, the archive documents of the organizations and institutions that operated within the borders of Azerbaijan in the past and were operating at the time of the signing of the decree should be handed over to the Unified State Archives Fund, and the documents that have been completed from the clerical point of view should be handed over to the central state archive.
Keywords : Azerbaijani archivists, establishment of the National Archives Fund, state legislation, development programs, development prospects of Azerbaijani archives