In the history of enterprise, Musa Naghiyev is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Musa Naghiyev as Azerbaijani businessman (1849–1919).
Musa Naghiyev was born at Bilajari in 1849. His recorded nationality is Azerbaijan Democratic Republic.
Industrialisation changed the scale of everything: factories, railways, joint-stock capital and the first modern corporations.
He worked as entrepreneur, industrialist and patron of the arts.
Business reputations are unusually sensitive to the decade in which they were made.
Recognition followed: Order of Saint Stanislaus, 3rd class.
That the business was built from Azerbaijan Democratic Republic shaped it: capital, regulation and market size differ by country, and they decide what is even attemptable.
Musa Naghiyev died in 1919, aged 70. What remains is the enterprise and its consequences, which is the only durable measure of a commercial life.
Achievements
- Order of Saint Stanislaus, 3rd class
