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This paper focuses on the academic activity of Mohamad Sadykh bey Aghabekov at the Jan Kazimierz University in Lviv during the years 1927 to 1944. His life and fate form the perfect illustration of the complicated history of the Caucasus and its inhabitants at the turn of the 20th century. He was a Russian officer, an Azerbaijani politician and a political refugee. He was an instructor of Oriental languages at the Faculty of Humanities of the Jan Kazimierz University where he taught Turkish, Persian and Arabic and created the first coursebooks for their study written in Polish.