The biggest Market in Azerbaijan

@grindle · 2025-11-01 09:08 · Worldmappin

So a long drive ahead today across the wastelands of Az. Looking forward with great excitement when told we would visit the largest market in Azerbaijan for lunch, eat with the locals and spend sometime wandering around looking at the market. I had visions of camel trains and ancient artefacts, babushka offering their wares, we were after all on the Silk Route.

How wrong can you be!

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Welcome to the market

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"You are taking the piss aren't you" Said I to our leader, "this is a fucking supermarket, this is not a market" I was weary after 5 hours on the road, hungry and in need of stretching my legs.

Proudly exclaiming " This is our biggest and finest market, come enjoy" our leader set off.

He was oblivious to my "It's not exactly Sainsbury's"

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and so food it was, queuing for some sort of slop which the locals seemed to enjoy, grudgingly I ate half of before going to buy some biscuits.

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Plenty of Vodka available

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Qayalı Market is a brand that has been operating since 2010, has a number of branches across Azerbaijan, it also boasts a fb page and an instagram page, whoop de freakin doo.

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What I found fascinating was the multitude of dead faces staring down at me suspended from the roof.

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I guess whilst 90% of the world were cowering in their homes, venturing out only when necessary swathed in face nappies, hands slathered in anti-bacterial chemicals, pointlessly destroying their own immune systems, sucking up the shit the globalist cock suckers were feeding respective governments there were young men dying, fighting in a war. A war that lasted 44 days and claimed the lives of over 6,000 warriors from Azerbaijan and Armenia.

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The Second Nagorno-Karabakh War

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Parviz Balabeyov fought in the Hamla battalion of Beylagan, was killed in action on 27/09/2020, in December he was posthumously awarded the "For the Motherland" medal.

Parviz did not tell his family anything about being deployed in the war, saying simply he would se them in two days.........hauntingly his body was sent to his family two days later.

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Strange to see toy guns on sale, is it morally wrong? Nah, boys will be boys.

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I did not expect to see my favourite red wine on sale here, though a lot more expensive than the £10 I pay at home.

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It was certainly as interesting as the middle at Lidl

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All sorts of tinned fish, yeuch

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Cured quail on a stick, no thanks,

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Asif Azayev a Major and battalion commander of the Azerbaijan Army; shot by an enemy sniper. he too was posthumously awarded medlas of valour, "For the Motherland" and the 3rd degree "Rashadat" order

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A camera shy Babushka, taking a sit down waiting patiently for who knows what.

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