Taras Shevchenko – Baku, Azerbaijan

Monument to Great Ukrainian Poet

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height: 3,5 m

Baku, Azerbaijan, 2008

Chief Architect of Baku and Deputy Mayor Akif Abdullaev

Project architect Goncha Manafova

TARAS SHEVCHENKO MONUMENT

President of Ukraine Victor Yushchenko and President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev took part in the ceremony of opening (June 2008)

Officials of Ukraine who took part in the opening ceremony:

Ambassador of Ukraine in Azerbaijan Boris Klymchuk, Minister of Culture Vasyl Vovkun, Minister of Foreign Affairs Volodymyr Ogryzko, Ex-Ambassador of Ukraine in Azerbaijan Stepan Volkovetskiy, Deputy Head of President Administration Olexander Chaliy