History of publication and literary and cultural content of the newspaper "Sheki fehlasi"
This is an indisputable fact that press is one of the means providing development of the society. On the pages of newspaper materials shows the life of humanity, striving for the future. The article examines the 70-year history of the newspaper «Sheki fahlasi», first published in Sheki in 1921, with a specific analysis of socio-political, literary and cultural issues. The author reveals facts from the history of the newspaper, its editors and correspondents, as well as its ideas about literary criticism and journalism. The newspapers published in 1930 highly appreciate the Sheki ashug folklore art despite the fact that it was out of the field of view of Azerbaijani folklore studies of the Soviet period. The folk researchers enlarge the importance of ashugs in Sheki, by referring to some creative samples of ashugs that remained in different pages of newspaper, as the specialists in folklore limited this Mola Juma’s creativity. Even the participation of 7 ashugs from this region in the 2<sup>nd</sup> republican ashugs congress in 1938 can be estimated as a new fact for Azerbaijan folklore studies. In the development of the literary process in the city of Sheki in the 1920-1980 years, a literary majlis of "Sabuhi" has developed an activeity. The article is relevant both nationally and internationally in the development of journalistic relations. The newspaper was published until 1991.