Monument To Nizami Ganjavi In Saint Petersburg
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The Monument to Nizami Ganjavi in Saint Petersburg is located in a square situated between houses 25 and 27 on
Kamennoostrovsky Prospekt Kammennoostrovsky Prospekt (russian: Каменноостро́вский проспе́кт) is one of the main streets of Petrogradsky District of Saint Petersburg. It runs from Trinity Bridge and Trinity Square across Petrogradsky Island, th ...
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History

The sculpture had been founded in
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and then presented to Saint Petersburg as a gift from Azerbaijan on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the city's origination. The sculpture was created by Gerush Babayev, an Azerbaijani sculptor, alumni of the
Saint Petersburg Art and Industry Academy The Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design (Санкт-Петербургская художественно-промышленная академия имени А. Л. Штиглица; abbreviated as СПГХПА) is the ...
. Felix Romanovskiy, Honoured artist of the
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is the author of a pedestal's project. The pedestal was made in “Kombinat-skulptura” enterprise of Petersburg.
Vladimir Putin Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin; (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who holds the office of president of Russia. Putin has served continuously as president or prime minister since 1999: as prime min ...
, the president of Russia and
Heydar Aliyev Heydar Alirza oghlu Aliyev ( az, Һејдәр Әлирза оғлу Әлијев, italic=no, Heydər Əlirza oğlu Əliyev, ; , ; 10 May 1923 – 12 December 2003) was a Soviet and Azerbaijani politician who served as the third president of Aze ...
, the then president of Azerbaijan also participated in the opening ceremony of the monument. In his speech made at the opening ceremony Russian President Vladimir Putin said, “A very happy and solemn event is taking place now – we are unveiling a monument to the prominent son of East, to the prominent son of Azerbaijan – poet and thinker Nizami.Сайт президента России. Выступление на открытии памятника Низами, Санкт-Петербург, 9 июня 2002 года.
Невское время. 11 июня 2002. В Баку — Пушкин, у нас — Низами.
/ref> The head of the Iranian Philology Department and the dean of the Oriental Faculty of St. Petersburg State University I. M. Steblin-Kamensky, speaking of this monument characterises the description of Nizami as an Azerbaijani poet as a fruit of nationalist tendencies and as an “outright falsification”.Стеблин-Каменский Иван Михайлович (заведующий Кафедрой иранской филологии, декан Восточного факультета Санкт-Петербургского государственного университета)
Восточный факультет давно готов сотрудничать с Западом
. «''Мы готовили таких специалистов <в „новообразованных государствах“>, но, как показывает наше с ними общение, там очень много националистических тенденций, научных фальсификаций. (…). В их трудах присутствует националистическое начало, нет объективного взгляда, научного понимания проблем, хода исторического развития. Подчас — откровенная фальсификация. Например, Низами, памятник которому воздвигнут на Каменноостровском проспекте, объявляется великим азербайджанским поэтом. Хотя он по-азербайджански даже не говорил. А обосновывают это тем, что он жил на территории нынешнего Азербайджана — но ведь Низами писал свои стихи и поэмы на персидском языке!''
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Architecture

The bronze 5 meter sculpture of the poet was made in an oriental style. Nizami Ganjavi is portrayed sitting on a bench under an arch, in the Eastern attire, with a book in hand. Words “Nizami Ganjavi” ( az, Nizami Gəncəvi) is written on the pedestal in
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See also

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Campaign on granting Nizami the status of the national poet of Azerbaijan Campaign on granting Nizami the status of the national poet of Azerbaijan (the term Azerbaijanization Регнум. 17:05 18.03.2006 «''Все написанное бывшим президентом Ирана Мухаммедом Хатами о ...


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