The National museum of Azerbaijan literature named after Nizami Ganjavi is a museum in Baku, established in 1939. It is located near the entrance of Icheri Sheher, not far from the Fountains Square. The museum is considered one of the greatest and richest treasuries of Azerbaijani culture.
Azerbaijani art is the art created by Azerbaijanis. They have created rich and distinctive art, a major part of which is applied art items. This form of art rooted in antiquity, is represented by a wide range of handicrafts, such as chasing (metalworking), jewellery-making, engraving, carving wood, stone and bone, carpet-making, lacing, pattern weaving and printing, and knitting and embroidery. Each of these decorative arts is evidence of the culture and the abilities of the Azerbaijan nation, and are very popular there. Many interesting facts pertaining to the development of arts and crafts in Azerbaijan were reported by merchants, travellers and diplomats who visited these places at different times.
Fuad Hasan oglu Abdurahmanov was a popular Azerbaijani monument sculptor. He received many awards, including: Honored Worker of Arts of the Azerbaijan SSR (1943), People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR (1955), the first Azerbaijani to become a corresponding member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (1949), and Laureate of the State Stalin Prize two times.
Nizami Street is a large pedestrian and shopping street in downtown Baku, Azerbaijan, named after classical Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi.
Omar Hasan oglu Eldarov is an Azerbaijani monumentalist sculptor, Honoured Art Worker of Azerbaijan (1962), People's Artist of Azerbaijan (1982), full member of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan (2001), full member of the Russian Academy of Arts (1988), president of Azerbaijan State Academy of Fine Arts (2001), and academician.
Tokay Habib oglu Mammadov was the eminent sculptor-monumentalist of Azerbaijan, People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR (1973), corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Arts (1975), Honored Arts Worker of the Azerbaijan SSR (1962), Professor (1977). In 1970-1972's he was a chairman of the Union of Artists of Azerbaijan and was the corresponding member of Russian Academy of Arts.
The Monument to Nizami Ganjavi, a medieval Persian poet, is located in Baku in Nizami Square, on the intersection of Istiglaliyyat, Ahmad Javad, Azerbaijan and Islam Safarli streets.
Jalal Maharram oglu Garyaghdi was an Azerbaijani monumentalist sculptor and People's Painter of Azerbaijan SSR (1960). He was one of the pioneer monumentalist sculptors of Azerbaijan, along with Fuad Abdurahmanov.
The Monument to Nizami Ganjavi in Saint Petersburg is located in a square situated between houses 25 and 27 on Kamennoostrovsky Prospekt.
Fuad Bagir Seyidzadeh was an Azerbaijani architect, co-author of the monument to the 77th Simferopol infantry division on the slope of Sapun mountain, Baku restaurant in Leningrad, and the author of numerous projects in the Baku mikrorayons.
Sovetsky is a historic district in Baku, Azerbaijan. It is located in Yasamal raion, between Nariman Narimanov Avenue and Mirza Ibrahimov Street, and between Nizami and Ibrahim Abilov streets. There are many historical buildings over a century old, museums, mosques, baths and houses of notable Azerbaijanis.
The monument to Nizami Ganjavi is a monument to the outstanding Persian poet Nizami Ganjavi, located in the hometown of the poet, Ganja, Azerbaijan. The monument was erected in 1946.
Zivar Mammadova was an Azeri sculptor, known as the first woman sculptor of Azerbaijan. She was the mother of the notable Azeri sculptor Tokay Mammadov.
Aliagha Vahid Monument is monument in Baku, capital of Azerbaijan, in honor of the Azerbaijani poet and ghazal singer Aliagha Vahid (1895–1965). It was built in 1990.
Huseyn Javid Monument is a monument to the Azerbaijani poet Huseyn Javid, located in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, in a park named in his honour, located on the Huseyn Javid Avenue. The authors of the bronze-cast monument are the People's Artist of Azerbaijan, the sculptor Omar Eldarov and the architects Yusif Gadimov and Rasim Aliyev. It was installed in 1993.
Hayat Abdullayeva - an Azerbaijani sculptor, and honoured art worker.
The Monument to Sattar Bahlulzade - is a monument to the Azerbaijani artist Sattar Bahlulzade above his grave in the cemetery of the artist's native village, Amirjan, near the Bulbula lake. The sculptor of the monument is Omar Eldarov. The monument was raised in 1975, a year after the death of the artist.
Gorkhmaz Sujaddinov (Askerbeyli) (Azerbaijani: Qorxmaz Məmməd Tağı oğlu Sücəddinov (Əsgərbəyli); 16 April 1932, Ganja — 22 April 2010, Baku) was an Azerbaijani-Soviet sculptor and an Honored Artist of Azerbaijan SSR (1982).
