With a length of 110 miles (177 km) south and costing 27 million manat to construct, the pipeline would soon be the tool to supply 3 million buckets of water to Baku residents on a daily basis.

Mardakan is the favourite places for building dacha summer cottages for Baku residents.

To illustrate how thoroughly the moderates had lost control, several Baku residents cited a sloganaubed on the walls of the city during the anti-Armenian rampage: "Baku without Bakintsi" - in other words, down with the internationalists, down with tolerance.

It is now known as the Azerbaijan State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater and continues to serve Baku residents till this day.

"The violence never happened," I was repeatedly told by horrified Baku residents.

The beach has been a traditional retreat for Baku residents, though the water is polluted by sewage and industrial waste and the view is marred by large oil rigs both in the surrounding land area and offshore.

In 2003 the Central City Library became the Presidential Library of Azerbaijan and continues to serve Baku residents till this day.

Baku residents reached by telephone, citing estimates by local health officials and hospitals, gave death tolls ranging up to several hundred.

But several Baku residents familiar with the Popular Front said the organization has turned with full fury against Moscow since the troops arrived last weekend in a crackdown that left more than 100 people dead.

Popular Front leaders and other Baku residents reached by telephone today said arrests had come in a sweep of district offices of the front and its paramilitary offshoot, the National Defense Council.