He was also the head of the Oral Literature section created within the Transcaucasian Branch of Scientific Academy of USSR.
Within the institute, the Department of Folklore of Language, Literature, and Art that was headed by Veli Khuluflu was created.
Huseyn Ismayilov was appointed as an executor director of the Scientific-Cultural Center "Palace of Folklore" in the ANAS Institute of Literature named after Nizami in 1995.
[2] The Scientific-Cultural Center continued its activity as an independent structural unit of Azerbaijan National Scientific Academy in 2003.
[4] In 2005–2007, the institute established Ashik music department and Qazakh-Borchali and Foreign Relations sections were created.
It worked on collecting mythological texts, defining historical roots and carrying out diachronic structure studies of the myth.
[11] The department acts from 2011 and carries out researching and collecting of folk ceremonies, performances, plays, and rituals.
[15] The fund is also known as a scientific archive and deals with the collection and preservation of all folklore materials, which are assembled by the departments.