Culture

President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva made themselves familiar with the improvement works being carried out around Shahkhandan Tomb in Shamakhy. Head of the Shamakhy District Executive Authority Tahir Mammadov informed the President and the First Lady of the improvement, renovation and repair works...

A concert programme called “Azerbaijani Music Evening” took place with the joint organizational support of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation and Azerbaijan’s Embassy in Beijing, supported by the Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries. Among the onlookers of the concert, one of the events held by the Heydar Aliyev Foundation to popularize...

On October 30, a statue erected to great Azerbaijani poet and thinker Imadeddin Nasimi was inaugurated in the atrium of the All-Russian State Foreign Literature Library named after M.I.Rudomino in Moscow, with the support of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation. Vice-president of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation Leyla Aliyeva, Deputy Culture Minister of Russia Pavel Stepanov...

On October 1, the closing gala-show of the 2^nd Nasimi – Poetry, Art and Morality Festival took place at the Heydar Aliyev Centre. First Vice-president of the Republic of Azerbaijan Mehriban Aliyeva attended the event. Performances of Azerbaijan’s art figures, the Azerbaijan State Symphonic Orchestra named after Uzeir Hajibeyli...

On October 1, a solo exhibition of renowned Turkish artist Ahmet Güneştekin, called “The Primer of Memory”, was inaugurated at the Heydar Aliyev Centre, in the framework of the 2^nd Nasimi – Poetry, Art and Morality Festival. Over 20 artworks of the artist are displayed at the exposition. Vice-president of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation Leyla Aliyeva and Arzu Aliyeva...