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It is quite natural and essential to try to foresee the events and approach the development of the university as a highly creative work. Little by little I am increasingly pressed for time to do my mathematical research and I have to try to compensate this nostalgia by creativity in my new vocation - education. Just as in mathematics, in this work one can not avoid tackling the problem. It has to be analyzed, and if familiar and existing methods can not be applied to resolve it then new ones need to be invented. It is a pain, isn't it? But is creation possible without pain? Henri Poincare once wrote: "to try to have no pain is a negative ideal, this can only be achieved if the world come to an end"⁵¹. And, is the pain of creation a real suffering or hidden pleasure?

Will the days, months and years I spend in search of the perfect "Khazar" lead to the creation of a university "whose name will be known to nations, and the news of its fame passed from country to country"?⁵² We will live and see.

Inshallah⁵³!

The traveler is on his way again.

Notes
1. St. Petersburg was named Leningrad during the Soviet Period

2. 
   At that time candidates to the Supreme Soviet (National Assembly or Parliament) used to be nominated at special meetings by "people".
   
3. 
   Popular Front of Azerbaijan played an important role in developing and heading national liberation movement in Azerbaijan when the Soviet Union was about to collapse. Later due to inner contradictions it was divided into several parties. In July 1992 it came into power and after a year resigned. Nowadays it is functioning under the name of Azerbaijan Popular Front Party (headed by Abulfaz Elchibay)
   
4. 
   Bakinskiy Rabochiy ("Baku worker") was a leading daily newspaper published in Russian
   

5. "Communist" - was a leading daily newspaper in Azerbaijani.

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6. 
   The military conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan on Azerbaijan's territory called Nagorny (Mountain) Karabakh is referred to here.
   
7. 
   In the former Soviet Union and Azerbaijan as well, the Academy of Science was an Institution with a lot of research Institutes and a Presidium.
   
8. 
   The agreements were signed by the former Soviet Union with other countries.
   
9. 
   "Dalga" ("Wave") - was one of the most interesting and popular information and entertainment programs of Azerbaijan TV.
   

10. 
    Yagub Shafai was born in Iranian Azerbaijan. Hasan Hasanov said in this meeting that his grandparents were also natives of Zanjan, Iran.
    
11. 
    so called Islamic fundamentalism is referred to here (approximately 90% Azerbaijan citizens are Moslems). We consider Azerbaijan a cosmopolitan country, which is far from the extremism named Islam fundamentalism.
    
12. 
    Lankaran - a town situated on the Caspian Sea along the borderline of Azerbaijan with Iran. The sea, mountains, forests and subtropical climate make this area very beautiful.
    
13. 
    According to the Former Soviet Union system of education and scientific (research) degrees, the preliminary (undergraduate) university education would take five years. In the last, fifth year, usually a diploma (mini dissertation) should be defended. Then to take the degree further one have to continue studying at an Aspirantura (Graduate school) for three years. Those who completed their studies successfully and published the results of their research in scientific journals obtained a chance to get a scientific degree of candidate of sciences. In order to get this Candidate of Science degree corresponding to the US Ph.D. degree (doctor of philosophy in special fields) in most cases one had to work on dissertation for four, five, even more years, instead of three. The highest scientific (research) degree "Doctor of Science" that doesn't correspond to any degree in the US was not often achieved. At that times Doctor of Sciences degree in some fields (for example mathematics) could only be attained at bigger scientific centers in central cities of the Soviet Union.
    
14. 
    The possibility of establishing private universities and their legal status were stated in the Azerbaijan Republic Education Law worked out and adopted in 1992.
    
15. 
    "Muallim" is of Arabic origin, it means "teacher". In Azerbaijan it is used both in its direct meaning and as a form of polite address, following the