Konul Mikayilova, Tavat Muradly, Gulnara Shakhmuradova

Key words: educational interests, life-threatening, repression

Konul Vagif Mikayilova, Tavat Huseyn Muradly, Gulnara Vilayat Shakhmuradova

THE ROLE OF SHUSHA INTELLECTUALS WHO RECEIVED HIGHER EDUCATION

IN THE PERIOD OF TSARIST RUSSIA IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SCIENTIFIC

PROGRESS

Summary. Shusha is the cultural capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh region of Azerbaijan.

The article reflects the tendencies and interests of Shusha residents in education. Academicians who studied at the Transcaucasian Teacher's seminary during Tsarist Russia like Safarali Valibeyov, Mukhtar Muradov, Abdulla Melikaslanov, Suleyman (Sani) Akhundov, Uzeyir Hajibeyov, Zulfugar Hajibeyov and others were also pointed out. During their studies, these great personalities overcame all difficulties that they faced and continued their education in terms of contributing to the development of education in Azerbaijan. These people contributed to the education of teenage children, the preparation of textbooks and teaching aids, and the development of our scientific and cultural heritage. At the same time, the article contains information about many of our intellectuals who continued their education in the higher education of the empire. The article provides detailed information about many of our intellectuals who continue their education in the higher schools of the Empire, their chosen higher educational institutions and professions. The Azerbaijani youth, who don't speak Russian, got an education and became worthy personalities of their people and Homeland. At the end of the article, the names of the intellectuals who became victims of repression in the history of Azerbaijan were mentioned. It was the mass repression of the Azerbaijani intelligentsia that had the opposite effect on the Enlightenment and the development of the people from the political point of view.