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Whose name is the settlement "Vorovski"?
There is a residential area in the Binagadi district of Baku - it is called "Vorovski". In official documents, this area is written either as "Vorovski settlement" or as "Vorovski housing estate". The area is considered a popular place among the residents of the capital, and when "Vorovski" is mentioned, most people know what place they are talking about. Come on, they don't know who Vorovsky is... True, we thought that the name Voroski was taken from the area in question long ago, but as a result of our research, we found that we were wrong. The name "Vorovski" still officially remains on that residential complex in Rasulzade settlement... This time, the Modern.az website is talking about "Vorovsky settlement" in the column "Old places of Baku". After all, who is this Vorovski, why is his name not taken from the housing estate in Baku? Probably, the vast majority of Baku residents, even the residents of the same residential area, do not know who Vorovski is. In this regard, it is appropriate to clarify who Vorovsky is. For those who don't know, let it be known that the town of Baku we are talking about is named after the Russified communist Vaclav Vaclavovich Vorovsky, who is a Polish national. Vorovsky, a Russian revolutionary, publicist and literary critic, was also one of the first diplomats of the former Soviet Union.
Vaclav Vorovsky was born in Moscow in the family of a Russified Polish nobleman. He studied at high school at the Lutheran Church. At school, he wrote anti-government poems and gave speeches at illegal meetings of pupils. In 1890 he entered the physics and mathematics faculty of Moscow University, a year later he moved to the Moscow Imperial Technical School, where he studied from 1891 to 1897. Since 1894, he began to participate in the revolutionary movement. In 1897 he was arrested and exiled to the Vyatka province of Russia. After exile, he lived in exile in Geneva, where he joined the Bolsheviks, was an employee of the newspaper “Iskra”. He was the contact person between the Bolsheviks and the Polish leftists. In 1905, he came to Petersburg from abroad and collaborated in Bolshevik newspapers and magazines. Later, his activity as a Bolshevik increased. In 1917, he became part of the Foreign Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, created at the suggestion of the Bolshevik leader Lenin. After the Bolsheviks came to power, he was appointed Plenipotentiary representative in Scandinavia. At that time, Vaclav opened accounts in European banks under false names. All this was aimed at supporting the International Workers ' Movement. In 1919, Vorovsky returned to Russia, where he served as the head of the state publishing house. In 1921 he was an authorized and Trade Representative in Italy. In 1923 he was appointed to the Soviet delegation at the Lausanne conference. In May of the same year, he was killed in the restaurant of his hotel in Lausanne by a former White Guard officer, Swiss citizen Maurice Konradi, who lost his relatives during the revolution in Russia. Konradi, who shot vorovsky and wounded two of his assistants, said when handing over the pistol to the police: “I did a good job – the Russian Bolsheviks destroyed all of Europe... This murder will benefit the whole world.” The court does not arrest Konradin, on the contrary, he is acquitted by a majority vote. As a result, this leads to the severance of diplomatic relations between the USSR and Switzerland. After his murder, his wife died of nervous shock. Vaclav Vorovsky was buried on Red Square in Moscow. During the Soviet regime, a number of settlements and streets in dozens of cities of the USSR were named after Vorovsky. His name has also been immortalized in Azerbaijan.
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since 1923, an extensive program for the construction of workers ' settlements began to be implemented in Baku. The settlement built in the Kirov region of Baku during the construction and construction works was registered in the name of Vorovsky. The “Vorovsky residential area” in our capital was officially put into operation in 1924. After Azerbaijan gained independence, Soviet names in Baku were gradually taken over the settlements. Kirov settlement in Binagadi district was also called "Rasulzade settlement" in 1999. But for some reason the name of the “Vorovsky residential area”in this settlement has been forgotten.
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