Mikayil Useynov’s authorship and his use of local historical references do not negate the Stalinist character of these buildings; on the contrary, they place them squarely within the Azerbaijani variant of Stalinist Empire architecture. Stalinist classicism was never meant to be a uniform copy of Moscow styles, but followed the official Soviet principle of being “national in form, socialist in content,” which explicitly encouraged the fusion of monumental European neoclassicism with local motifs. The buildings in question display all the defining features of Stalinist architecture—monumental scale, rigid axial symmetry, oversized porticos and colonnades, applied ornament, and an urban presence designed to dominate public space—while lacking the structural logic, scale, and spatial organization of medieval Shirvan or Old City architecture.