The 26 Baku Commissars Typography was located at 3 Ali Bairamov Street in Baku, Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic. Historically, the 26 commissars were a group of Bolshevik and Left Socialist Revolutionary members of the Baku Soviet (a.k.a. Baku Commune), a communist quasi-state in the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic of 1917-1918. Their rule was cut short when they were apprehended by the anti-Soviet Centro-Caspian administration of Azerbaijan. Although they were freed (by Red Army forces), the commissars were ...

Azerneshr (Azərnəşr) began operations in the early 1920s and served as the State Publishing House of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic. As an active publishing house in the 21st century, Azerneshr also publishes material in languages such as Lezgi, Kurdish, Udi and Khinalug.