Azerbaijan history; Czech language; Russian language; translation; realia

This article deals with the issues of translation of the scientific texts devoted to Azerbaijani history from Russian to Czech language. We are becoming acquainted with creative method, translation macro- and microstrategies, used in the process of translation of "The History of Azerbaijan" by Igrar Aliyev. It is focused on four major groups of problems: 1) translation of proper nouns (especially personal and geographic names); 2) translation of quotes from artistic literature and historic written monuments; 3) realia, terms and the stylistic specificity of a historical scientific text in the source and target languages; 4) the specificity of syntactic structure in Russian and Czech scientific texts.