It is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan and one of the largest cities located in the Caucasus region. The city is considered a scientific, cultural, industrial and commercial center in Azerbaijan. The city blends with a Western European cultrure and, on the other hand, an Eastern Islamic culture.
It is a cemetery and memorial in Baku dedicated to the dead of the massacre carried out by the Soviet army during the events of Black January 1990, and the murders of the Karabakh Highlands War in 1988-1994.