History · 5 September 2026
Murtuza Mukhtarov and His Gothic Palace
He started out bailing oil from pits by hand and ended up owning Baku's most "European" palace.
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Fly2Baku blog posts about “Oil history”: 2 article(s) on Baku and Azerbaijan — sights, travel tips and tours.
History · 28 August 2026
The Oil Boom: How Oil Built Baku
In the early 1900s Baku produced half the world's oil. How that transformed the city — and what's left of the era.
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