Photographs, documents, historical materials and supplementary information. Fonds I — open. Fonds II — partially closed.
The authentic photochronicle of the Baku oil industry of the nineteenth century is — one. Everything else in this fonds was made later and is named plainly: visual material, not a document of the epoch. There are no portraits of the founders in the fonds, and none will appear.
“…If two people argue over who is more important, they should be reminded that the organisation was created for the aid of people. After which, as a rule, a second argument begins — who precisely helped a greater number of people…”
“…The old format is no longer suitable. The association requires a single structure. Five votes are recognised as equal; the decision on the name was taken by majority: BRATVA…”
“…Leadership has been transferred to Anar Naziriv. The formal reason — the necessity of maintaining order. The boundaries of authority were not discussed…”
“…When Naziriv A. left the premises, a fight occurred. The participants defined the purpose of what happened as a warning: the lives of the founders and their families are not to be interfered with again. The relations of the parties after this were declared spoiled without possibility of restoration…”
“…Version 1: an accident, a fall down the stairs. Version 2 (voiced among the participants): involvement of a person from the management, motive — a struggle for influence. The person denies involvement. Neither version is confirmed or refuted…”
“…It was proposed to appoint Naziriv A. as the chief public face of the organisation: in the event of future problems the main responsibility will fall on him, the rest retaining their independence. Adopted unanimously. The reasons of those voting differ and are not stated in the minutes…”
“…The file has been issued to the reader. No return date is provided. The reader has been explained that the file returns only in the memory of the reader, and that it is precisely for this reason he is asked to give his name…”
“…The key was accepted for storage without an inventory. The purpose of the key is unknown to the custodian. The door to which it fits is not listed in the inventory. The custodian asked that it be recorded: he does not insist, but he will check…”
“…The death of Emin. The confrontation of Pervin and Anar. The position of Murad. The attempt of Parviz to restore the balance. The first epoch is finished. The continuation — in Fonds II…”
There is one authentic historical photograph in the fonds: “Baku Oil Derricks”, 1886, the open media repository Wikimedia Commons, public domain. The remaining images — modern photographs of industrial and urban surroundings taken from the open bank Unsplash (Unsplash License: free use, including commercial use, without mandatory attribution of the author). They are used as visual material and as a reconstruction of atmosphere, not as documents of the epoch, and the captions state this in plain text.
Portrait images of the founders are not authentic photographs and are designated everywhere as reconstructions. All texts of the site are — a fictional-documentary invention: coincidences with real people, organisations and companies are accidental.
A demand to state the exact year each frame was taken has reached the archive three times. The archive answers that the year of a frame is not the year of the event, and insists on this.