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A photowalk of Azerbaijan's German heritage
By: Fedirer
The aim of the project was to photograph a total of 15 historical sites in two cities in Azerbaijan with German heritage and upload them to Wikimedia Commons. I would like to emphasise once again that images of most of these monuments were not available on Wikimedia Commons at all. Together with my friends, we photographed hundreds of historical monuments across four different cities. Twenty one of the monuments we documented were included in the official list of historical monuments registered by the Republic of Azerbaijan. Most of the other houses dating from the 19th and 20th centuries, although protected by the state, are not officially registered as historical monuments. We hope that as a result of our work, these houses will also be officially recognised as historical monuments in the future.


Additional part of the report (Lessons learned)

Before traveling, we researched the German heritage present in the region. In addition to the cities of Göygöl and Shamkir mentioned in the project, we also photographed historical monuments related to German heritage in Baku and Ganja. Over the course of our four-day trip and one additional day in Baku, we took a total of 554 photographs. From these, we selected 374 images and uploaded them to Wikimedia Commons.

The photographs we took cover a total of 21 state-registered historical monuments as well as more than 150 historic houses built by Germans in the 19th and 20th centuries. Unfortunately, during our trip, neither of the two museums we planned to visit was open. For this reason, we were unable to document the exhibits located there.

While uploading the images to Wikimedia Commons, a total of 17 new categories were created.

For example:

It turned out that the famous Singer company once had a sales office in the city of Ganja. This building was constructed by the Singer brothers back in the 19th century, and we also photographed it. (Category:Zinger brothers' workshop-shop) In addition, we took photographs of the German prisoners-of-war cemetery located in Baku. (Category:Cemetery of German prisoners of war, Baku)

Financial report
Financial report for your project
Type of expense Description Amount (EUR)
Transport Transportation cost (train, taxi) 250
Accommodation 4 nights for 2 people 285
Food and beverages Food expenses (4 days for 2 people) 150
Total 685.00
Achieved metrics

We managed to achieve all our target metrics. Main results in the following table:

Achieved Metrics
Metric Target Result
Number of photos taken 500 554
Number of photos uploaded to Commons 374
Number of monuments to be photographed 15 150+
Categories created on Commons 17
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