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Azerbaijan Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , also sometimes officially called the Azerbaijan Republic is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is a part of th ...

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Tokay Mammadov Tokay Habib oglu Mammadov ( az, Tokay Həbib oğlu Məmmədov; July 18, 1927, Baku, Azerbaijan SSR – May 2, 2018, Baku, Azerbaijan) was the eminent sculptor-monumentalist of Azerbaijan, People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR (1973), correspond ...

, type = gravestone , material = , length = , width = , height = , weight = , visitors_num = , visitors_year = , begin = , complete = 1957 , dedicated = , open = , restore = , dismantled = after 1992 , dedicated_to = , map_name = , map_text = , map_width = , map_relief = , coordinates = , website = , extra_label = , extra = The Gravestone of Mir Mohsun Navvab ( az, Mir Möhsün Nəvvabın qəbirüstü abidəsi) is a monumental memorial of a republican significance located in the city of

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and belonging to the Shusha State Architectural Reserve. In 1960, reconstruction works were carried out on the grave of

Mir Mohsun Navvab Mir-Mohsun Navvab ( az, Mir Möhsün Nəvvab) (1833, in Shusha – 1918, in Shusha) occupies a prominent place in the history of Azerbaijani culture as the last representative of the old traditional school of science, arts and literature. Navvab w ...

through the means of

UNESCO The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) aimed at promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture. It ...

. The tombstone was registered as a historical and cultural monument of the country significance by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Azerbaijan. After the occupation of the city of Shusha in 1992, it was destroyed by the Armenian armed forces.

History

Mir Mohsun Navvab, an Azerbaijani scientist, poet, artist, astronomer, literary critic, calligrapher, historian and musicologist, lived and worked in Shusha passing away in 1919. On the grave of Navvab, his son Mir Ibrahim Aghamirzade had carved an inscription: In 1957, a bas-relief monument of red marble was made on the grave of Navvab by the authors: the sculptor

and the architect Rasim Abdurrakhmanov. In 1960, under the auspices of UNESCO, reconstruction works were carried out on the tombstone. After the occupation of Shusha on 9 May 1992, the gravestone was destroyed by the Armenian Armed Forces. After the liberation of Shusha on 7 November 2020, the remains of the gravestone were discovered by the Azerbaijani Armed Forces.

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{{Shusha State Historical and Architectural Reserve Buildings and structures in Shusha

History

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