[1] The decision to raise a monument to the dramatist on the square in front of the Baku railway station was made in 1959.

For the pedestals material, Mir-Ali Mir-Gasimov together with his wife Gultekin khanym went to Ukraine, to the Novo-Danilovsky quarry.

Soon, the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan, Heydar Aliyev, intervened in the situation.

On Aliyev's instructions, the personal doctor of the first secretary took care of the artists health.

The monument was opened on 23 March 1982 by Heydar Aliyev himself, delivering a speech at the ceremony.