Monument to Nizami Ganjavi in Chișinău

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Monument to Nizami Ganjavi in Chișinău
Location Chișinău, Moldova
Type Monument
Completion date 2005
Dedicated to Nizami Ganjavi

The Monument to Nizami Ganjavi , a medieval Persian poet, is located in Chișinău, the capital of Moldova, in a park named after Nizami Ganjavi. [1] Akif Asgarov, Honoured Art Worker of Azerbaijan was a sculptor and Semen Shoyket, Honoured Architect of Moldova was the architect of the monument. [2]

Nizami Ganjavi Azerbaijani poet

Nizami Ganjavi (1141–1209), Nizami Ganje'i, Nizami, or Nezāmi, whose formal name was Jamal ad-Dīn Abū Muḥammad Ilyās ibn-Yūsuf ibn-Zakkī, was a 12th-century Persian Sunni Muslim poet. Nezāmi is considered the greatest romantic epic poet in Persian literature, who brought a colloquial and realistic style to the Persian epic. His heritage is widely appreciated and shared by Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, the Kurdistan region and Tajikistan.

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Chișinău City in Moldova

Chișinău, also known as Kishinev, is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Moldova. The city is Moldova's main industrial and commercial center, and is located in the middle of the country, on the river Bâc, a tributary of Dniester. According to the results of the 2014 census, the city proper had a population of 532,513, while the number of population in the Municipality of Chișinău was 662,836. Chișinău is the most economically prosperous locality in Moldova and its largest transportation hub.

History

Opening ceremony of the monument was held in spring, 2005, during the official visit of Ilham Aliyev, the President of Azerbaijan to Moldova. The monument was settled as “a sign of kind relationships between Azerbaijani and Moldavian nations”. The idea of the construction of the monuments belongs to the Congress of Azerbaijanis in Moldova, led by Vugar Novruzov. [2]

Ilham Aliyev 4th President of Azerbaijan from 2003

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On November 12, 2012 a solemn opening ceremony of the reconstructed and renovated monument to Nizami Ganjavi was held. Boris Foshko, the minister of culture of Moldova, Adalat Valiyev, deputy minister of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Azerbaijan, Namig Aliyev, ambassador of Azerbaijan to Moldova, members of delegations from Azerbaijan, cultural and art figures of Moldova, government officials and representatives of diplomatic missions also participated in this ceremony. The given project was realized within the order of Ilham Aliyev, the President of Azerbaijan “About celebration of the 870th anniversary of Azerbaijani poet and thinker Nizami Ganjavi”. [1]

Description of the monument

The monument consists of a granite bust of Nizami Ganjavi, portraying the poet in the eastern attire with a turban on his head. A pedestal is made of the red granite and decorated with eastern ornaments. [2] The name of the poet, the dates of his birth and death are written on the pedestal in English.

English language West Germanic language

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See also

Campaign on granting Nizami the status of the national poet of Azerbaijan – is a politically and ideologically motivated revision of the national-cultural origin of one of the classics of Persian poetry, Nizami Ganjavi, which began in the USSR in the late 1930s and was arranged to coincide with the celebration of the 800th anniversary of the poet. The campaign was crowned with jubilee celebrations in 1947 but its effects continue up to this day: on one hand this process was beneficial for many cultures of the multi-cultural Soviet Union and for the Azerbaijani culture in the first place; on the other hand this brought to an extreme politicization of the question on Nizami's cultural-national identity in the USSR and in modern Azerbaijan.

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References

  1. 1 2 В Кишиневе открылся обновленный парк имени Низами Гянджеви
  2. 1 2 3 Кудрявцева Елена. «Слово, идущее от сердца, проникает в сердце» Archived 2012-03-20 at the Wayback Machine .

Coordinates: 47°02′37″N28°51′11″E / 47.0437°N 28.8530°E / 47.0437; 28.8530

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