Baku Polytechnicum () was a technical university that was established in 1887 in

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, when it was under Russian rule. By 1910 it had integrated a curriculum related to the growing

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. However, the ratio of

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s to non-Azeris was so skewed that of the 494 students studying at the school in 1916, only 20 were Azeri. On November 14, 1920, after the invasion of the

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and the establishment of the fledgling

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, the new government decreed that Baku Polytechnicum would close and be replaced by Baku Polytechnical Institute, a more traditional

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and the beginnings of the current incarnation of

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. On December 12, 1920, the National Education Committee announced a special decree stating that Baku Polytechnicum was liquidated and its teachers' staff were to be free from their duties.

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