On February 11, the Azerbaijan State Young Spectators Theatre hosted a commemoration evening "People's Bakhtiyar" devoted to the memory of People's poet Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh. Professor Nizameddin Shamsizadeh made an opening speech and said that B. Vahabzadeh was one of the prominent figures of the 20th century. ...

Azerbaijan Writers Union hosted the presentation ceremonies of two books - "People's writer Chingiz Abdoullayev's prose work "The Valley of Confessions" and poet Salim Babullaoglu's collected poems "Nobody writes to Colonel". ...

Azerbaijan Federation of Aerial and Extreme Sports President Huseyngulu Bagirov presented three books dedicated to the first Azerbaijan-Antarctic expedition - "Antarctic Diary", "Climate of Antarctica. ....

President Ilham Aliyev signed an executive order on including the "Complex of Shirvanshahs Palace" in "Icherisheher" State Entity on Historic and Architecture Preservation under the Cabinet of Ministers of the Azerbaijan Republic.
According to the signed document, the "Complex of Shirvanshahs Palace" has been operating since 1964. The historicity, architectural and aesthetic appearance of the State Museum on Historic and Architecture Preservation displays a special importance. ...

The Day of Azerbaijan was held on February 9 in Budapest City Library named after Szabo Ervin. ...

The employee of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of ANAS, candidate of historical sciences Badisabah Rajabova's book "From Traditional Mastership Product and Production History of Azerbaijan (IV-XVII)" has been published. ...

On February 10, "Ali and Nino" café hosted a ceremony devoted to announcement of "Top 10" for National Book Award. ...

On February 10, New Azerbaijan Party (NAP) has organized the presentation ceremony of the book "Iravan Khanate". It is a joint project of the Institute of History named after A.A. Bakikhanov of ANAS and "Development of Regions" Public Union. YAP Executive Secretary Ali Ahmadov opened the ceremony and said the book was about the Iravan Khanate which played important role in the history of South Caucasus. ....

Natavan' Club of Azerbaijan Writers Union (AWU) will host a meeting with poetess Mahira Abdoulla on February 19, AWU informed on it. Young people, students of universities of the meeting will have possibilities to meet the poetess and ask questions. ...

Employee of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of ANAS, candidate of historical sciences Ruslan Rahimli's book "South Caucasus factor in Azerbaijani-Russian relations" has been published. ....

A literary-art evening devoted to the 85th jubilee of prominent writer, playwright, publicist and poet Nabi Khazry was held at the Republic Art Gymnasium on February 9. Addressing the evening, People's poet of Azerbaijan Nariman Hasanzadeh noted that Nabi Khazri's love for sounds of plane tree, khazry (wind), waves made him to choose the pen-name "Khazry". ....

The Institute of Manuscripts named after M. Fuzuli of ANAS has published a collection of photocopies of poems in Turkish and manuscripts of Sadig bey Afshar, the author of poems and prose works who lived in the16th century....

Secondary school № 23 hosted a competition "Fables of I.A. Krylov and S.A. Shirvani". The competition was supported by the Russian Cultural and Information Centre, the centre informed on it. Pupils of the fourth-form participated in the literary competition held in the format of Club of Merry and Witty People. The program of the competition included works by famous Russian fabulist I.A. Krylov and satirist known in the East S.A. Shirvani. ...

A new newspaper "The Capital Culture" has been published in Azerbaijan. The new issue started to operate under the motto "Quality in Production, Economization in Consumption, Politeness in Treatment!" ....

The second improved edition of the book "History and Theory of Culture" prepared by employees of Azerbaijan State University of Culture and Arts for high schools has been published. ....