On September 29, 2026, the Oriental Literature Center of the Russian State Library held the ceremonial evening dedicated to the heritahe of the classical Persian poet Nizami Gyanjevi. The event was held with the assistance of Ibn Sina Foundation.
The ceremony was opened by the speeches by the General Director of the Russian State Library V.V. Douda, the Head of the National Library and Archive of the Islamic Republic of Iran Gholamreza Amirkhani and the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotaniary of the Islamic Republic of Iran in the Russian Federation Kazem Jalali. The Iranian Deputy Minister of Science and Education Ehsan Ghaboul presented the report “Image of Russia in the Persian Literature “. The Advisor to the Iranian Ministry of Science Ahmadreza Khizri announced his proposals considering cultural cooperation between two countries.
The President of Ibn Sina Foundation Hamid Hadavimoghaddam played an active role in the program being a moderator of the discussion. He shared his experience of cultural diplomacy with the auditory.
The Head of the Cultural Scientific Research Institute Ehsanollah Shekarollahi delivered a report dedicated to the poetry by Nizami Gyanjevi. University teachers of the Institute of Asian and African Countries of the Moscow State University M.L. Reisner and A.V. Gromova also spoke at the event. Students of the mentioned university declamated a part of the poem “Leili and Majnoun” in Persian.
Ibn Sina Foundation and the Oriental Literature Center of the Russian State Library are long-standing partners. For many years they used to hold joint lectures and master classes, screens of documentaries created by the Foundation and its books’ presentations.
