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Azerbaijanis, it will be right to, are mentality, gifted people according to these indicators.

Our ancestors, in ancient times were eager to express somehow the way of their existence, creative activity and their living way.

Even when they didn’t possess writing notes, they showed their thoughts, actions, and desires by scraping figures on the rock and stones.

Time passed, they began to express their creative works on leather cloth using different sings and marks.

The first Azerbaijan-turkish book became “Kitabi Dada-Korkut” which told about the deeds, relations, feelings of Azerbaijan people.

When Azerbaijanis learned to work with metal the Azerbaijan jewelers’ masters created beautiful jewelry things, decorations, dishes, crockery, and they liked to decorate their homes with those things and exported them to other countries.

The Renaissance Age touched Azerbaijan national culture too. Azerbaijan Renaissance epoch- rebirth became the main part of muslim Renaissance.

During this epoch a lot of mektebs and medreces  were opened. Science and philosophy became the favorite activing of educated people in Azerbaijan.

Medicine found its development among Azerbaijanis and they used natural plants in their treatment. There appeared such scientist like Eynalguzat Miyanechi, Khatib Tebrisi, Fazil Faridaddin Shirvani and others.

Timely Azerbaijan language became the major mean of communication throughout the whole country.

The famous architecture A.Adjami created his unrepeatable architecture masterpiece “Mominat Khatun” a grave- monument which could be considered as the symbol of mathematics, geometry, art, and history.

Besides Mardakyan gala, Karabaglar gal, Maiden tower architecture shedeurs had been built along the Kaspian seashore.

Among the doctors of those time the famous of them became Muhammad Nakhichevani, who considered the health of the human as the main base of mental and physical creation of the nation.

He opened “dar-ush-shafa” houses for the health protection.

He advices us to protect the people’s health with much more attention, to warn the illness in order not to cure it after it happened.

Touching decorative and applied art we can take for example Tebriz Guba, Shirvan, Gandja-Kazah carpet makers, miniature school which brought up great masters of miniature.

The miniature Azerbaijan masterpieces are famous in the calligraphy was used widely in Azerbaijan.

From ancient times Azerbaijan music was very creative. Azerbaijan poet-ashug (folk inger)

Alaskyar had become well-known around the Eastern countries for his sweet song accompanied by saz- the single kind of delightful musical instrument.

The Azerbaijan literature undoubtedly became famous in the world with the name of the genius-poet of Azerbaijan nation- Nazami Gyandjevi, who belongs to the constellation of the greatest poets and thinkers of all times.

Nizami was a profound and original thinker whose ideas anticipated the concept of the Renaissance age with the ideas of humanism, exalted love, self-sacrifice, necessity to struggle for establishing justice.

All his ideas were concentrated inn his famous literary work “Khamsa” which includes 5 poems in it.

Nizami’s heritage became inexhaustible source of inspiration for philosophical thought.

He was the first to introduce into poetry the problems associated with prosperity and happiness of every individual man and of a human society as a whole.

We told you a short story of historical mental and spiritual development of Azerbaijan nation but contemporary art, culture of Azerbaijan people has sprang much more wider throughout the world.

The well-known Azerbaijan composer Kara Karayev’s music, symphonies are played, we can freely say, by the musicians and conductors of all continents.

Fikret Amirov, Arif Melikov addressed to the humanist works of poets and writers having world fame, and created a lot of musical masterpieces.

The famous Azerbaijan composer Uzeyir Gadjibekov made Azerbaijan folk-mugams familiar to the whole world civilization by his musical language.

Presently musicians and composers of many countries try to analyze mugams and mix their native music with mugam tones, I would dare to call mugam as the origin of music itself because you can find mugam tones in all kind of music.

Our opera singers and ballet dancers often perform on foreign scenes successfully.

Azerbaijan painters rebirth and renew the traditions of miniature and silk painting as well as portrait and landscape paintings.

There are a great number of painters in Azerbaijan whose exhibitions had been held in different countries.

Tahir Salakhov, Sattar Bahlulzadeh, Asaf Djafarov, Maral Rahmanzadeh.

Among young painters there are such ones who attract the attention with their miniatures and multisided exposition and compositions.

Tarana Mammadova Rahman kizi is one of the young artists whose activity attracts the attention not only in artistic multisided activity but with her knowledge of architecture details as well.

I think, consequently she hold been chosen the member of the Artists Union and the Union of Architectures.

Our city is becoming the city of sky-scrapers and houses of native architecture such Architectures as Elbek Kuliev.

Ali Novruzi take part in the reconstruction of Baku and try to put innovations inn it.

Now, I think, most of you are theatre goers and lovers.

I would like to state that Azeri theatre has its traditions for a period of more than a century.

Azerbaijan theatre stage performs the plays of contemporary and classic dramaturges of the world as well as native ones.

Azerbaijan has its own conservatory which prepares composers singers and musicians, schools in our republic.

The musical schools work even in the remotest corners of our country which do their best to develop the nation’s intellect.

The famous Azerbaijan pianist and Jazz musician and composer Vagif Mustafazadeh is well-known in the music world for his synthesis the folk mugams with jazz.

Which is followed by his daughter a great musician Aziza Mustafazdeh.

 Azerbaijan art, music, education system is cooperating with glorious “UNESCO” organization and our charming lady Mehriban Alieva enters “UNESCO” as a glorious and good-welled ambassador of Azerbaijan.

We have got a number of well-equipped concert halls, philharmonic, song theatres, drama and opera theatre.

Azerbaijan  people is a very hospitable, good-willed, friendly nation and may be therefore a lot of different nations with different languages live in our country. If those nations don’t speak Azerbaijan we try to learn their own languages and make them feel comfortable here.