Multiculturalism in Azerbaijan

There are multiple places where minor ethnicities live in Azerbaijan, such as mountain Jews in Qırmızı Qəsəbə (Red town), Kurds in Sheylanli, the Molokan village of İvanovka, Udi people in Nij and Khinalugs. There are some ethnic minorities like Russians, Lezgians, Tats and Talysh and other minorities that are represented in the National Assembly.^{[citation needed]}

European ethnicities that immigrated to and lived in Azerbaijan during the 19th and early 20th centuries, following the Russian conquest of the Caucasus and the oil boom in the country brought about by industrialization, included Slavs (Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Bulgarians, Serbs), Germanics (Germans, Austrians, Swedes, Swiss, Dutch, English), Greeks, Latins (Moldovans, Romanians, French, Italians), Balts (Lithuanians, Latvians), and Finno-Ugrics (Estonians, Finns, Hungarians, Mordovians, Mari), with a total of over 20 different nationalities being represented in the region by the 1920s.^[1] Some European communities were land-poor peasants who lived in rural areas and involved themselves in agriculture, while others were urban dwellers engaging in industrial activities. Many Americans also resided in Azerbaijan during this time, as they were fascinated by Baku's oil boom and aware of the Nobel family’s entrepreneurial activity in the city.^[2]

Qırmızı Qəsəbə locals speak 3 languages: Judeo-Tat (spoken in daily conversations), Russian and Azerbaijani. Also, school books in their own language are prepared for them in Azerbaijan. Today, around 4 thousand Jews live in Qırmızı Qəsəbə.^[3] While the prevalent Jewish subgroup are the Mountain Jews, other subgroups that have historically inhabited this village include the Ashkenazi Jews, Sephardic Jews,^[4] Krymchaks, Kurdish Jews, and Georgian Jews.