Omar Faig Nemanzade's 150th anniversary will be celebrated
Omar Faig Nemanzade's 150th anniversary will be celebrated.
Qazet.az reports that President Ilham Aliyev signed an order in this regard.
According to the order, the Ministry of Culture together with the Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences will prepare and implement a plan of events for the 150th anniversary of Omar Faig Nemanzadeh.
In December 2022, it was mentioned in the decree that the 150th anniversary of the birth of Omer Faig Nemanzadeh, a great representative of the national press of Azerbaijan, a prominent publicist, a well-known educator and a public figure, has been completed.
It was stated that Omar Faig Nemanzadeh wrote bright pages in the history of the Azerbaijani press at the beginning of the 20th century and played an exceptional role in its development to a qualitatively new stage by guiding its development in extremely complex conditions. The creation of the "Geyrat" printing house, which became an important event in the literary and cultural life, and the famous "Molla Nasreddin" magazine, which had a strong influence on the strengthening of democratic tendencies in the literature of Middle Eastern countries, are inseparable components of the intense and effective activity of the writer.
It was emphasized that the wide erudite, selfless writer who considered love for mother tongue as the most important condition of love for the motherland fought hard for the sake of the cultural revival, independent and happy future of his native people without sparing his knowledge and skills. The constant coverage of all fateful issues of national importance against the background of the leading ideas of the time from the front of Azerbaijani ideology formed the main leitmotif of Omer Faig Nemanzade's journalistic legacy, rich in national ideas and having a deep political and social content.
Like many patriotic personalities of the time, Omar Faig Nemanzade was one of the victims of the repression of the totalitarian Soviet regime in the 1930s.