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ABC
In Baku you'll find a vast array of cheap, DVDs and music CDs of dubious legality. ABC offer a surprisingly wide left-field selection of Western music, as well as Azeri and Russian music. Some staff are remarkably knowledgeable.
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Akadem-Kitab
Wide range but predominantly in local languages. Next door, Iranian Al Hoda focuses on Farsi literature.
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Azər-İlmə Carpet Factory
Traditional Azeri hats, copperware and carpets are widely sold though they can generally be obtained more cheaply in the provinces. Nonetheless the Ali Baba-esque shops around Baku's İçəri Şəhər are atmospheric places to nose around and although prices might not be the most competitive, dealers here will be familiar with annoying carpet-export procedures. A free tour of the impressive Azər-İlmə Carpet Factory is well worth the 20 minute drive, even if you don't buy.
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Book Shop of the Presidential Administration
Sells an amusing selection of hagiographic literature about both Әliyevs, as well as postcards and several guide-pamphlets that you could have got for free from the tourist information office.
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Central Vegetable Market
The Central Vegetable Market is loveably dilapidated.
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Chiraq Books
Baku's friendly English-language bookshop stocks a decent range of classics, bestsellers, travel guides and locally relevant titles, along with plenty of Christian literature.
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Grand
In Baku you'll find a vast array of cheap, DVDs and music CDs of dubious legality. Grand, with another branch on Nizami küç, offer a surprisingly wide left-field selection of Western music, as well as Azeri and Russian music. Some staff are remarkably knowledgeable.
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Kitab
The most reliable place to find excellent 1:500,000 topographic maps of Azerbaijan. They're rolled up amid other much poorer versions so ask to look at a few. No English spoken.
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MUM
Also known by its Russian acronym TsUM, Baku's oldest department store is MUM with four floors of stall-shops selling everything from cheap electronics to wedding dresses.
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Tourist Bazaar
The colourful Tourist Bazaar, along with various souvenir and 'antique' shops, mostly sell rather tacky rubbish, though the old Soviet-era badges are cheap and fun.
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Təzə Bazar
For photogenically piled fruit and illicit caviar (beluga around Manat50 for 113g), head to Təzə Bazar.
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Ziya
Ziya is well stocked, but overpriced, and aimed at Hyatt guests who can't be bothered to shop around.
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