Azerbaijan State Oil Academy

Azerbaijan State Oil Academy

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Azerbaijan State Oil Academy (ASOA) ( _az. Azərbaycan Dövlət Neft Akademiyası (ADNA)) is a public university located in Baku, Azerbaijan.

The rise of what became ASOA tied to the rise of the petroleum industry in the Baku region. By 1887 the technical school that would become Baku Polytechnicum was established in Baku and by 1910 it had integrated a curriculum related to the growing oil industry. However, the ratio of Azeris 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 Red Army and the establishment of the fledgling Azerbaijan SSR, the new government decreed that Baku Polytechnicum would close and be replaced by Baku Polytechnical Institute, a more traditional polytechnic institute and the beginnings of the current incarnation. The new school focused on training engineers in a a broad range of industries, from agriculture to oil. By 1923 the school graduated its first 3 students and by 1927 it had risen to 289 graduates.

The new school went through many name changes over the years as its emphasis changed to meet the needs of Azerbaijan. In 1923 the school changed its name to Azerbaijan Polytechnical Institute. In 1929 the agriculture department was spun off into a separate Agriculture Institute and the university changed its name to the Azerbaijan Oil Institute (AOI) in 1930. However, the expanding needs engineers in other areas outside oil resulted in expansion in the school's curriculum and the school changed names again in 1934, this time to the Azerbaijan Industrial Institute (Az.I.I.). World War II taxed the Soviet Union and schools like Az.I.I. struggled to stay open. At the end of the War, there was great demand for oil engineers in the Soviet Union and the school trained them in great numbers. In 1952, the government founded a separate Azerbaijan Polytechnical Institute and moved much of the non-petrochemical curricula to the new school so that Az.I.I. could focus on the oil industry. On February 12, 1959 the school was renamed the Azerbaijan Oil and Chemistry Institute (AzOCI). In the early 1960s an evening program was developed. This evening program developed into its own, separate public university in 1992, reusing the name Azerbaijan Industrial Institute and becoming Sumgait State University. On March 21, 1992, after the independence of Azerbaijan from the Soviet Union, the university changed its name to the current ASOA.

In 1993 the school changed its curricula into a more Western model, with its first bachelors and masters degree candidates graduating in 1997. ASOA worked with Western universities to Westernize and modernize its programs, in particular with Georgia State University to develop a modern Masters of Business Administration program [Gary McKillips, " [http://www.robinson.gsu.edu/magazine/fall2001/baku.html Teach a Man to Fish] ", "The State of Business" (Georgia State University), Fall 2001, "Accessed on April 14, 2006"] . ASOA currently has programs with a dozen international universities.

Famous graduates

* Heydar Aliyev, president of Azerbaijan from June 1993 to October 2003
* Kerim Kerimov, head of Soviet space program
* Sabit Orujov, Minister of Gas Industry of the USSR
* Nikolai Baibakov, Head of Gosplan (State Committee for Planning) of the USSR
* Vagit Alekperov, President of the Russian oil company LUKOIL
* Rustam Ibrahimbeyov, screenwriter
* Farman Salmanov, geologist
* José Eduardo dos Santos, President of Angola
* Alish Lambaranski, ex-mayor of Baku

Famous Scholars

* Igor Kurchatov, Research Assistant at the Faculty of Physics (1924 - 1925)

Notes

External links

* [http://www.adna.baku.az Azerbaijan State Oil Academy website]
* [http://www.asoastudents.az Unofficial Community of the Azerbaijan State Oil Academy Students]
* [http://www.baku.ru/edu/azi/ Community of the Azerbaijan State Oil Academy Graduates]


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