The 6^th book of the series “Folklore of minorities” was published by the decision of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Folklore of ANAS. The folklore examples presented in the book were collected within the framework of the project “Azerbaijanism and multiculturalism in folklore” implemented in 2017-2018 with the financial support of the Science Development Foundation (now the Azerbaijan Science Foundation). The main goal of the project was to identify the folklore sources of Azerbaijanism and multiculturalism, to find common cultural values that unite the peoples living in Azerbaijan. For this purpose, business trips were organized to Zagatala, Balakan, Guba, Gusar, Lankaran and Masalli regions, meetings were held with representatives of the small peoples settled in these regions. As a result of the implementation of the project, it was established that the main factors uniting the peoples living in Azerbaijan, regardless of their nationality, are the common homeland, language, common history and common culture. These concepts are also elements that form the basis of the ideology of azerbaijanism. These concepts are also elements that form the basis of the ideology of azerbaijanism. Each of the peoples living in Azerbaijan has a common homeland, which is the Republic of Azerbaijan. Every nation living in the territory of Azerbaijan considered this country its native homeland, worked for its development, fought and martyred for it.

The fact that the Azerbaijani language is one of the developed languages of the world, the opportunity to create artistic, scientific and journalistic works in this language played an important role in its unifying factor. These peoples mastered the Azerbaijani language as much as their native languages, wrote and created in this language and created wonderful works.

Folklore examples reflecting our common cultural values collected from sakhur, avar, talysh and lezgins are included in the book. The collectors of the materials presented in the book are Associate Professors Ilkin Rustamzade, Afag Ramazanova, Galib Sayilov, Matanat Yagubgizi and Laman Vagifgizi. The book with a volume of 330 pages was published in the publishing house “Science and education”.