Heydar Aliyev International Airport is the main international airport of Azerbaijan, located east of the capital Baku. It developed from a Soviet-era aviation facility and expanded over the decades as air travel in the Caucasus grew. The airport was named after Heydar Aliyev, the former Soviet official who became president of independent Azerbaijan, after his death in 2003. A new terminal was opened in 2014, with a futuristic design intended to impress visitors arriving in the country. It is the base of the national carrier Azerbaijan Airlines and has been a hub for connections between Europe and Central Asia.
Before and after
- 1933Origins of Ligue 2
- from 1933 to 1945The Holocaust
- 1933Construction of Lacoste
- 1933Enabling Act of 1933
- 1933Construction of Heydar Aliyev International Airport
- 1933Karl Jansky detects radio waves from the Milky Way
- 1933Fritz Zwicky infers dark matter
- 5 January 1933Death of Calvin Coolidge
- 25 January 1933Birth of Corazon Aquino
More in Art, literature & culture
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- 19 September 1926Construction of Giuseppe Meazza Stadium
- 4 July 1930Origins of Nation of Islam
- 1932First edition of Venice Film Festival
- 8 July 1936Construction of Frankfurt Airport
- 1942Publication of The Stranger
The era
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