The Establishment of The Soviet Regime In Northern Azerbaijan. Resistance Against The Invaders

The Baku oil was one of the main reasons for the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany.

85-90% of aviation gasoline of the USSR was produced out in Baku. During the war, Baku became the main military arsenal of the USSR. Famous enterprises, rocket launchers “Katyusha”, parts of guns and military aircraft was made in the city. In general, up to 130 types of weapons and military equipment were produced in Baku.

The main transport artery, on which moved loads for strategic and military purposes from the US, UK and Canada through the Persian Gulf to the Soviet Union, passed though on the territory of South and North Azerbaijan. At a time, when transport routes were closed for the USSR from the north (due frozen the most period of the year the port), from the west (the Soviet-German front) and from the east (the threat of militarist Japan), without the presence of the Southern Corridor and the Azerbaijan oil the victory in the war would be impossible.

Azerbaijani science and culture have also been mobilized to the front. A team led by the scientist chemist Yusif Mammadaliyev without leaving the laboratory within 28 days, received a high-octane aviation fuel, it was a great event in science.

On March 23, 1945, Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan SSR was established on the basis of the Azerbaijan Branch of Academy of Sciences of the USSR and Mirasadulla Mirkasimov was its first president.

Taking into account the active participation of the Muslim clergy in the military mobilization and its contribution to the victory, the USSR Supreme Soviet created the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the Caucasus by its decree on April 14, 1944,.