The heart of the community
Ivanovka
Ivanovka is the main Molokan village of Azerbaijan and a place where time seems to have stopped: neat houses, wheat fields and the only collective farm in the country to survive to our day.
The heart of the community
Ivanovka is the main Molokan village of Azerbaijan and a place where time seems to have stopped: neat houses, wheat fields and the only collective farm in the country to survive to our day.
If the Molokans of Azerbaijan have a capital, it is Ivanovka. Here their traditions are not a museum exhibit but a living everyday way of life.
Ivanovka
Ivanovka stands in the scenic Ismayilli district, among fields and hills. The Molokans ploughed this land and for centuries lived by peasant labour — grain, livestock, dairy.
Hard work and order made the village prosperous and known far beyond its borders.
Ivanovka
Ivanovka's chief distinction is its kolkhoz. Before 1936 there were several artels here; then they merged into a single collective farm that still works today — the last such farm in the country.
The collective way of life proved to be in tune with the Molokans' communal spirit — land and labour are still treasured here as a common cause.
What Ivanovka is known for
A village in the scenic Ismayilli district among fields and mountains.
The artels merged into a collective farm — the only one left in the country.
Grain, livestock and dairy as the basis of life.
A living Molokan way of life that draws guests and tourists.
The state of the kolkhoz and the economy changes over time; information is given from open publications.