STEPAN CHAHOUMIAN MUSEUM

A museum more interesting for its design than for its contents, dedicated to the revolutionary glorified by the Soviets, shot by the British with the 25 other Baku Commissioners in 1918. The modest residence in which Stepan Chahoumian (1878-1918), a native of Tbilisi, lived with his wife from Stepanavan, was "put under bell" in a building made of tufa and smoked glass. This tile-roofed house with its wooden veranda and small garden is a rare testimony to the time when the town, to which he gave his name, was called Jalaloghly