Draft:Rizvan Huseynov

Huseynov was born on May 21, 1973, in Baku, Azerbaijan. After graduating Public High School, he studied historian at Baku State University. Having finished University in 1996 he completed a Bachelor's degree in history.

He was co-authored the first rock music magazine “Prok” in Azerbaijan, and the newspaper “Meloman”, on the same subject published by rock activist Shamil Agayev (Shaul Siman Tov). From 1990 to 2003 he played bass and percussion in a number of Azerbaijani heavy metal bands.

Since 2005 he has been actively involved in journalistic activity, was a political columnist in a newspaper “Obozrevatel” (in Russian means “Observer”). In the following two years he also worked as a journalist in a news agency “Novosti-Azerbaijan” (in Russian means “News-Azerbaijan”), and starting from 2007 for almost four years as a political columnist in a news agency “1NEWS”. He participated in monitoring of Azerbaijani and Armenian media in terms of the coverage of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and Armenian-Azerbaijani relations (with the assistance of Eurasia Partnership Foundation).

Huseynov is senior researcher at the Institute of Law and Human Rights of the Republic of Azerbaijan.{{Cite web |title=CSL elected member of the UNESCO Working Group on studying the national heritage of Azerbaijan|url=https://science.gov.az/en/news/open/8247|website=www.science.gov.az — 20.06.2018}}

At the beginning of 2011, he has been engaged in research activities.{{Cite web |title=Американский журнал на русском языке "Чайка" (Seagull magazine) — American magazine in Russian "Seagull|url=https://www.chayka.org/authors/rizvan-guseynov |website=www.chayka.org — 20 февраля 2024 (20 February 2024)}} During the same year he took part in a hearing relating the topic “Decisions of the European Court of Human Rights on the claims of the countries of the South Caucasus and their implementation”, in the framework of the “Symbolic Caucasus Human Rights Court and Civil Service Hearing on the Democracies of the Caucasus”, supported by the National Endowment for Democracy (NFD).

From 2014, Huseynov has been a director of the Center for the Caucasus History, which implemented a number of peacebuilding projects and events with participation of Azerbaijani, Armenian, Georgian, Turkish, Russian, European, Kazakh, Uzbek experts and peacekeepers.{{cite web |title=Head of Center for Caucasian History Rizvan Huseynov:"The year 2022 will be a year of Turkey-Armenia relations's normalization."|url=https://www.ankasam.org/roportaj/head-of-center-for-caucasian-history-rizvan-huseynov-the-year-2020-will-be-a-year-of-turkey-armenia-relations-normalization/?lang=en|website=www.ankasam.org — 13.01.2022| date=13 January 2022 }}{{Cite web |title=Foreign Policy Research Institute under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan|url=http://sszi.kz/en/20230317|website=www.sszi.kz — 17—20 March 2023}}{{Cite web |title=International Observers Mark Active Youth Participation, No Significant Violations|url=https://astanatimes.com/2023/03/international-observers-mark-active-youth-participation-no-significant-violations/|website=astanatimes.com — 19 MARCH 2023|date=19 March 2023 }}{{Cite web |title=BIG GAME IN TRANSCAUCASIA. PART 1.|url=https://theatlantis.org/big-game-in-transcaucasia-part-1/|website=theatlantis.org — AUGUST 12 2024|date=12 August 2024 }}{{Cite web |title=BIG GAME IN TRANSCAUCASIA. PART 2|url=https://theatlantis.org/big-game-in-transcaucasia-part-2/|website=«The Atlantis»|date=30 October 2024 }} Lisbon, Portugal — OCTOBER 30 2024.

He was elected associate professor of the Branch of UNESCO Chair on comparative Studies of Spiritual Traditions, Specific Cultures and Interreligious Dialogue in the Northern Caucasus in 2015.

He is regularly invited to major international forums and scientific conferences, where he gives a presentation on the issue of the event being held.

Huseynov is an author of several books and more than 250 scientific and journalistic articles and monographs on the history of Azerbaijan, the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict and the geopolitics of the South Caucasus. The monograph “Azerbaijan and the Armenian Question in the Caucasus” was reviewed and recommended for reading and entered the teaching course at a number of foreign universities. The monograph is available in a number of Book Houses of various countries, as well as in libraries of universities in United States and Europe.

Here below are some of selected works translated into different languages (English, Azeri, French, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Italian, Turkish and etc.):

• Huseynov, Rizvan N. Azerbaijan and the Armenian Question in the Caucasus. Institute of Law and Human Rights of the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences. Baku, 2015, 304 pp. {{ISBN|978-9952-8282-2-1}}
• Huseynov, Rizvan N. Brief history and background of the Karabakh conflict. The Council of State Support to Non-Governmental Organizations under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan. Baku, 2016
• Huseynov, Rizvan N. The historical centre of Yerevan (Irevan) according to archival material and old photos. Center for the Caucasus History. Baku, 2018, 89 pp. {{ISBN| 978-9952-3706-3-8}}
• Huseynov, Rizvan N. The causes of disappearance of Joseph Orbeli's book. Center for the Caucasus History with the support of the Institute for Public Policy Research. Azer-Globe, Baku, 2018
• Huseynov, Rizvan N. The Caucasus of the 18th century through the eyes of a Russian secret agent. Reprint edition of three books of S.Burnashev. Teas Press, 2018, 108 pp. {{ISBN|978-9952-5138-5-1}}
• Najaf, Akber N., Huseynov, Rizvan N. Parthia - Architects of the Middle World. Kosmo, 2022, 328 pp.
• Huseynov, Rizvan N. THE Road Leading to Western Azerbaijan. State Support Agency of Non-governmental organization of Republic of Azerbaijan. Baku, 2023, 132 pp.

• Huseynov, Rizvan, N. Karabakh Khan Panah Ali and Georgian tsar Irakli II: Alliance at a critical historical period // Azerbaijan-Georgia: Heritage of friendship and brotherhood through the ages. "EIDA", Baku – 2024, 353 pp., {{ISBN|978-9952-576-15-3}}, pp. 68–84
• Huseynov, Rizvan, N., Krylov A.B., Mobili R.B. Conditions and Factors for the Development of Inter-country Communications between Azerbaijan and Russia// Russia & World: Scientific Dialogue. 2023; 1(7): pp. 56–65
• Huseynov, Rizvan, N. Destroyed Iravan fortress: brief overview of historical site in Yerevan // Journal "IRS-Heritage", No. 52, summer 2022, pр. 22–29
• Huseynov, Rizvan, N. Christian heritage of Karabakh as ‘apple of discord’: overview of conflict history// Journal "IRS-History", No. 49, autumn 2021, pp. 40–49
• Huseynov, Rizvan, N. Azerbaijan's territory referenced in Arab, Muslim medieval sources // Journal "IRS-History", No. 48, summer 2021, pp. 14–23
• Huseynov, Rizvan, N. Historicity and Historical Ethnography of Azerbaijan: The 18th and 19th century Caucasus at a Glance// Caucasus International, Vol. 6 * No 2, 2016, рр. 193–204
• Huseynov, Rizvan, N. ''Questionable reliably of Armenian sources // Review of Armenian Studies, No. 34, 2016
• Huseynov, Rizvan, N. Albanian Church of Gandzasar in the decrees of Azerbaijani rulers // Journal "IRS-History", No. 2 (21), summer 2015, pp. 46–53
• Huseynov, Rizvan, N. A MEDIEVAL ARMENIAN SOURCE ON THE HISTORY OF THE CAUCASUS AS ANALYZED BY JEAN SAINT-MARTIN// "THE CAUCASUS & GLOBALIZATION", CA&CC Press® SWEDEN, Volume 8 Issue 1–2, 2014, pp. 106–116

Married, with two children.

• Winner of journalist contest “Russian-Azerbaijani relations: stability and mutual interests” organized by the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Azerbaijan, December 2007.
• Award of the State Committee for Diaspora Relations and the Press Council of Azerbaijan “Active coverage of diaspora issues”, January 2010.
• Honorable diploma of the public association “Ireli” (in Azerbaijani means “Forward”) for “periodic media coverage of Azerbaijan's youth policy”, July 2011.
• Medal named after Professor Rovshan Mustafayev, 24 December 2015.
• Azerbaijani Army 100th Anniversary Medal, 26 June 2018.

• Honorable member of the Central Office of the “Azerbaijan Patriotic War Veterans” Association (Certificate No. 163).
• Associate Professor of UNESCO from 2015.{{Cite web |title=Aleksei Chepa: "We hope that the relations between the Russian Federation and Turkey will continue to strengthen|url=http://duma.gov.ru/en/news/28295/|website=www.duma.gov.ru — 27 September 2018|date=October 2018 }}{{Cite web |title=IEPF President meets European scientists in ecology and water problems

|url=https://iepf-ngo.org/en/news/20/1768|website=www.iepf-ngo.org}}

• An important project is the International Working Group “In Search of the Sun”.[https://unescospb.ru/reporting-event-of-the-international-working-group-in-search-of-the-sun/ Meeting of International Working Group ‘In Search of the Sun’ – UNESCO]. www.unescospb.ru — December 25, 2019.
• On 25 December 2018, Rizvan Huseynov was elected a chairman of the “All-Caucasus House”, the peacebuilding NGO, was established in Georgia. The aim of the organization is to study and disseminate the cultural and historical heritage of the Caucasus.
• He was elected a member to the Public Council of the State Committee on Affairs with Religious Associations of the Republic of Azerbaijan 31 January 2025.{{Cite web |title=DQİDK yanında İctimai Şuraya seçkilərin nəticəsi açıqlanıb|url=https://ictimaishura.az/details/az/9097

|website=ictimaishura.az 31.01.2025}}

• Rizvan Huseynov is periodically invited to local and foreign programs on numerous YouTube projects, where he conducts historical, political and expert analyses of events taking place in the world.

He is the author of a number of television projects and documentary-historical films. Among them are the films:

• “Forbidden History of Armenia and Azerbaijan” (in five languages), 2016
• “Secrets of Caucasian Albania (in three parts, in Russian)”, 2016
• “Mukhannat” (in Azerbaijani means “Traitor”), 2018
• “Armenian history written by “lagunda” (in Russian), 2019
• “Armenian Foreign Tales” (in Russian), 2019

Among television projects in Russian are the following:

• “Reproaches of History”
• “Blind Spots in History”
• “Complicated History”
• “Revealed Archives”

{{reflist}}

• {{Cite web |title=Center for the Caucasus History |url=http://www.caucasianhistory.info}} — Date of registration in the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Azerbaijan 31 October 2014. Registration number: 1114—Q51—3304.
• {{Cite web |title=All-Caucasus House |url=https://www.allcaucasus.com/}} — Date of registration in the Ministry of Justice of Georgia 25 December 2018. Organization Representation in Tbilisi (Georgia).
• {{Cite web |title=Library of Congress|url=https://search.worldcat.org/opaclink?oclcNumber=936377243®istryId=45266&institutionName=Library%20of%20Congress}}
• {{Cite web |title=Orient-Institut Istanbul |url=https://search.worldcat.org/opaclinkoclcNumber=936377243®istryId=145427&institutionName=Orient-Institut%20Istanbul}}
• {{Cite web |title=Harvard University|url=https://search.worldcat.org/opaclink?oclcNumber=936377243®istryId=73876&institutionName=Harvard%20University}}
• {{Cite web |title=Princeton University Library|url=https://search.worldcat.org/opaclink?oclcNumber=936377243®istryId=1791&institutionName=Princeton%20University%20Library}}
• {{Cite web |title=Stanford University Libraries|url=https://search.worldcat.org/opaclink?oclcNumber=936377243®istryId=3227&institutionName=Stanford%20University}}
• {{Cite web |title=Ohio State University Libraries|url=https://search.worldcat.org/opaclink?oclcNumber=936377243®istryId=2315&institutionName=Ohio%20State%20University%20Libraries}}
• {{Cite web |title=Indiana University|url=https://search.worldcat.org/opaclink?oclcNumber=936377243®istryId=5279&institutionName=Indiana%20University}}
• {{Cite web |title=Berkeley Libraries, University of California|url=https://search.worldcat.org/opaclink?oclcNumber=936377243®istryId=5689&institutionName=UC%20Berkeley%20Libraries}}
• {{Cite web |title=University of California|url=https://search.worldcat.org/opaclink?oclcNumber=936377243®istryId=5690&institutionName=University%20of%20California,%20NRLF}}
• {{Official website|https://www.rizvanhuseynov.com/}}.

{{Draft categories|

:Category:Living people

}}

{{Improve categories|date=January 2025}}

{{Drafts moved from mainspace|date=January 2025}}