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Trading is one of the first planned and organized activities that mankind put forward after his life on earth started. Because human beings are not a being that can meet all their needs by themselves. They also need what other people produce in order to survive. People all over the world have developed different organizations in order to meet this need, which has led to the birth of trade, professions and money flow. The Ahiorder organization developed by the Turks in Anatolia and its surroundings and the craftsmen within this organization met all the goods and services needed by the Turkish people in the past with an intensive way of working. However, these crafts and the activities of the craftsmen performing these should not be considered merely as commercial activities. Because a very rich tangible and intangible cultural heritage has also been formed around these activities. The purpose of this study is to examine the situation of the five facing extinction among the handicrafts in Bayburt province, which are one of the first forms of production and have a production process intensive by hand. Document analysis and field research methods, which are among qualitative research methods, were used in this study. Observation and interview techniques were used in the field research. Then, the data obtained were examined in the light of the relevant literature and it was determined that even in the province of Bayburt, where traditional life continues to a certain extent compared to other big cities, crafts and craftsmen cannot compete with the industrial and commercial power of modern times and are about to disappear. The situation revealed by this result does not only mean the disappearance of some crafts. It is seen that a wide-ranging traditional knowledge of the craftsmen who carry out this craft, from learning the profession to its execution, from selling to the public to the professional law among tradesmen, has begun to disappear without being transmitted to future generations. The disappearance of professional knowledge, which is one of the important corners of the national culture and accepted by UNESCO in the intangible cultural heritage list within the framework of various conventions, also shows that we are facing with great problems in the transmission of our intangible cultural heritage to the future generations in our country in general and in Bayburt in particular. Today, the products that are the concrete output of the crafts are taken under protection by amateurs, museums and various institutions in our country, even if they are disconnected from their context; however, it is not enough to keep only materials in order to keep the cultural value of these crafts alive. The materials must be kept alive with the context of the production process. Only in this way can the cultural codes in the professional knowledge be transmitted to the future generations and brought to the world cultural heritage. The point of the study is that if it is late in the province of Bayburt, this intangible cultural heritage will become extinct together with the craftsmen who are the last representatives of their profession. In this regard, it was remarked that this process can be reversed with the projects in which the official institutions, the experts employed at the universities and the Turkish National Commission for UNESCO are partnered together in terms of cities.