DUSHANBE, September 3, Asia-Plus — The best draft for reconstruction of the Dushanbe Central Park named after Abduabdulloh Rudaki will be announced today, Shavkat Saidov, a spokesman for the capital mayor, said.
We will recall that Two Tajik sculptors – Amriddin Aminov, who currently lives in France, and Shahriyor Mukhtorov – have been selected to work out drafts of the Rudaki memorial complex.
The Dushanbe city authorities noted that the monument should be seven meters in height and reflect philosophy and democratic nature of Tajik people.
Due to funds provided by the Dushanbe mayor’s office for the Rudaki monument the competition winner will be able to set up professional studio in Dushanbe, the spokesman said.
Abuabdulloh Jafar Ibn Mohammad Rudaki (858-941) was a Tajik-Persian poet, and the first great literary genius of modern Tajik-Persian language
, who composed poems in the “New Persian” Perso-Arabic alphabet script. Rudaki is considered a founder of Tajik-Persian classical literature
. He was born in the village of Rudak in the district of Panjakent, Tajikistan, in 858. Most of his biographers assert that he was totally blind
, but the accurate knowledge of colors shown in his poems makes this very doubtful. He was the court poet to the Samanid ruler Nasr II (914-943) in Bukhara, but he eventually fell out of favor and ended his life in poverty.
