Libraries in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, are divided into public and private. The first public library in Baku was an Athenaeum library of Nariman Narimanov's, opened with the approval of the Baku Governor Gorchakov in August 1894. The library was shut down in 1896.[1][2]
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- ^ "ПЕРВОЙ БАКИНСКОЙ БИБЛИОТЕКЕ-ЧИТАЛЬНЕ - 115 ЛЕТ". www.anl.az. Retrieved 2021-01-07.