In accordance with the State Program on the Great Return, the Institute of Folklore has carried out a number of important works in the field of collecting, researching and publishing the intangible cultural heritage of Karabakh and the Eastern Zangezur.

AZERTAC reports that it was told by the Director of the Institute of Folklore, Doctor of Sciences in Philology Hikmat Guliyev at a meeting of the Scientific Council dedicated to the report on scientific and scientific-organizational activities for 2025. The director said that this year the institute published the books “Zangezur Folklore: From Poetic Words to Social Meaning”, “Artistic and Semantic Features of Karabakh Folklore”, and “Ashiq Abdulla” by Salman Mumtaz. At the same time, more than 20 books were exhibited by the Institute of Folklore at the event “The Academy’s Zangezurname: From Folklore Collections to Academic Researches” organized by ANAS at the 11^th Baku International Book Fair.

Within the framework of the declaration of the city of Lachin as the “Cultural capital of the CIS”, the Institute of Folklore and the Department of Humanitarian Sciences of ANAS organized a scientific session on “Lachin: visible traces of cultural memory from folklore”.

Hikmat Guliyev also said that one of the most important areas of activity of the institute in recent years had been large-scale research on the collection and analysis of the Western Azerbaijani folklore. Numerous folklore samples from the Western Azerbaijanis living in various regions of the republic were collected and volumes 5 and 6 of the series “Western Azerbaijani Folklore” were published.