The Heydar Aliyev Foundation erected a monument to Azerbaijan’s eminent writer and philosopher Mirza Fatali Akhundov in the atrium of the All-Russian State Foreign Literature Library named after M.I.Rudomino. The monument was inaugurated on November 23, 2012.
The project was realized together with the Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan in the Russian Federation and the All-Russian State Foreign Literature Library named after M.I.Rudomino. Author of the monument is young Azerbaijani sculptor, graduate of the Moscow State Institute of Art named after V.I. Surikov, member of the Moscow Union of Artists Zaur Rzayev.