There was held an event in Baku State University on May 20 dedicated to the 100th jubilee of a prominent literary critic Jafar Khandan. Prior to a scientific-practical conference dedicated to the literary critic’s jubilee, the event participants attended the opening of an auditorium named after Jafar Khandan and his bás-relief. They highly appraised Jafar Khandan’s contribution to the development of Azerbaijan literature.