On May 19, the Nizami Square in Sumgait hosted the 3rd All-Republican Book Holiday. The book holiday was attended by the Culture and Tourism Minister of the Republic of Azerbaijan Abulfas Garayev, the Mayor of Sumgait Vagif Aliyev, town public, intellectuals, co-workers of cultural institutions.
The guests and holiday participants enjoyed exhibitions titled “A Well-Known Politician – Haydar Aliyev”, “Garabagh – our blood memory”, “Ou Rising Economy”, “Haydar Aliyev and our national culture”, “My native town – Sumgait”, “By the light of a poem”,”Folk Art”, “Classic Literature”, “Modern Azerbaijan Literature”, “World Literature”, “A present to Children”, “Nature, Ecology and we”, “New editions” and others.
The schoolchildren recited poems in the holiday. It featured also an exhibition of layouts of different books. A parade of tale heroes with the participation of little ones included the holiday. For the first time there was held a book fair for the first time.