On November 10, 1887, in Baku, the Baku City Duma decided to establish a technical school.
In 1896, the technical school was renamed the low-level technical school.
In 1896-1905, 50 people graduated from the school in the mechanics department, 55 people in the construction department. In 1910, the Department of Mechanics also included the areas of petroleum engineering and electromechanics.
In 1916, the school had 494 students, 20 of whom were Azerbaijanis.
In 1918, the school was renamed the Polytechnic. The Polytechnic had departments for the Oil industry, electrical engineering, construction and architecture, and the number of students was 188 people. During this period, 62 people became graduates, among whom 12 engineers were Azerbaijanis.
City Technical School in pre- revolutionary Baku
The building of the main building of the Academy was built in 1900 by the architect Joseph Goslavsky[1]. The Baku Technical School functioned here.
After the establishment of Soviet power in Azerbaijan on November 14, 1920, the Baku Polytechnic Institute was established on the basis of the school.
By 1923, the institute had graduated its first 3 students, and by 1927 the number of graduates had increased to 289.
In 1959, the institute was named after the revolutionary Meshadi Azizbekov.
According to the decree of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of February 18, 1991, the Institute was renamed the M. Azizbekov Industrial University of the Order of the Red Banner of Labor.
On March 21, 1992, after Azerbaijan seceded from the Soviet Union, the university changed its name to the Academy.
Source: Wikipedia.