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Spotlight on Oil Barons of the Last Century SOCAR Building and Heydar Aliyev Foundation  Left: The SOCAR (State Oil Company of Azerbaijan) building next to the new President Heydar Aliyev Foundation. The SOCAR building was once owned by Mir Taghi Mir Babayev, a talented singer of folk music and mughams who was gifted property for his performance at a wedding. The land was discovered to have oil and the fate of the singer was transformed overnight. The SOCAR building was constructed in 1896. Mir Babayev fled to France when the Bolsheviks took control of Baku in 1920. Back to the article Back to Index AI 14.2 (Summer 2006) AI Home | Search | Magazine Choice | Topics | AI Store | Contact us Other Web sites created by Azerbaijan International AZgallery.org | AZERI.org | HAJIBEYOV.com |
