Statue of Fuzûlî (Baku)  A statue of medieval Azerbaijani poet, writer, and thinker Fuzûlî forms a major monument in the city of Baku. The statue was prepared by Azerbaijani sculptors Tokay Mammadov and Omar Eldarov between 1958 and 1963. The architect of the statue is Haji Mukhtarov. For this work, sculptors Tokay Mammadov and Omar Eldarov were awarded silver medals of the USSR Academy of Arts. In 1958, a competition for the establishment of a statue to Azerbaijani poet Mohammed Fuzuli was proclaimed on the occasion of the 400th anniversary of the death of the poet. The project was jointly prepared by Tokay Mammadov and Omar Eldarov, who studied together at St. Petersburg State Academy of Fine Arts, Sculpture, and Architecture named after I. E. Repin, together with architect Haji Mukhtarov won the competition. Before working on the statue of Fuzuli, both Tokay Mammadov and Omar Eldarov established some "poetic" works. So, Tokay Mammadov worked on the portrait of Nizami Ganjavi in those years. This portrait, the first wooden portrait in the Azerbaijani sculpture, is kept in the Museum of Azerbaijan Literature named after Nizami Ganjavi. Omar Eldarov was working on the marble portrait of the 19th century Azerbaijani poet and daughter of Karabagh's khan Khurshidbanu Natavan in the 1950s. Soon he was ordered to establish the bronze statue of Natavan by the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, the People's Writer of Azerbaijan, Mirza Ibrahimov. The opening of the statue took place in 1962. The statue of Mohammed Fuzuli consists of a bronze part on the granite pedestal and a fountain located in front of it. The height of the sculpture is 12 meters. The lines of the poet's faces, frown on his forehead, and between his eyebrows describes his life with intense thoughts and excitements. For the first time, Fuzuli's artistic image was created by Azerbaijani sculptor Fuad Abdurahmanov. Thus, when the facade of the building of the Azerbaijan Literature Museum named after Nizami Ganjavi was being developed, one of the facades decorates was intended to be a statue of Fuzuli. Fuad Abdurrahmanov's project won the competition declared for the statue of the poet.