Miralasgar Mirgasimov

He is the author of the monuments to Jafar Jabbarli (Baku), Nariman Narimanov (Sumgayit), Jalil Mammadguluzade (Nakhchivan).

Later he recovered, but soon, as a result of the atrophy of the auditory nerve, the little Miralasgar completely lost his hearing ability.

Despite the risk of the speech loss, thanks to his mother, who constantly communicated with her son and, using a special method she had invented, she has taught her son the alphabet, abandoning the ABC book for the deaf and dumb, consequently Miralasgar did not become dumb, therefore Miralasgar was not sent to a special school for the deaf.

He very boldly navigates in any environment having some kind of a special and inherent sense, a skill to quickly catch and understand everything.

[5] Under Sabsai's guidance, Miralasgar created, by memory, from clay, a sculpture of a lion seen in a menagerie, and afterwards a human figurine.

In some workshops, the temperature is kept at zero degrees...In another letter to his mother, Mirgasimov wrote that at that time he had the highest marks at the sculpture department.

Thus, Miralasgar Mirgasimov became the first Azerbaijani sculptor who received a full specialized higher education.

[2] Also, Miralasgar Mirgasimov became the author of a bronze bust of the twice Hero of the Socialist Labor - Basti Bagirova, which was installed in her homeland, the Goranboy region, a portrait of his father, the academician Mirasadulla Mirgasimov, a half-figure of Nariman Narimanov in Sumgayit, a portrait of his mother, etc.

The People's Artist of Azerbaijan, Togrul Narimanbeyov, wrote about the work of the sculptor:[4] The creativity of Miralasgar Mirgasimov is characterized by a high romance, a poetic vision of the world, an inexhaustible optimism, admiration for the man’s beauty, and by his rich spiritual world.A great place in the images created by Mirgasimov was occupied by the theme of the inherent struggle in such works where the sculptor portrayed Bahram in the combat with an angry leopard, the African breaking the chains of the slavery, and Icarus (the conqueror of the air) on take-off.

The images of a lion, a walrus, a horse tearing apart, a gazelle are the examples of the artist's animalistic sculptures.

[7] To create the image of Icarus at the time of take-off, Mirgasimov was inspired by the flight of the first man into space.

[4] In 1982, a monument to the prominent Azerbaijani poet and playwright Jafar Jabbarli, made of pink granite by Mirgasimov, was raised in Baku.

[4] The decision to establish the monument to the playwright on the square in front of the Baku railway station was made in 1959.

[4] Despite the fact that the sculptor had already begun the work, the strive for minimalism, widespread during those years of Khrushchev's rule, and the fight against "excesses", suspended the process for a long time.

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

At the disposition of Heydar Aliyev, the personal doctor of the first secretary was in charge of the artist's health.

[4] The last decades of his life, Miralasgar Mirgasimov spent together with his family in a house located on Nariman Narimanov Avenue in Baku.

People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR
People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR
Honoured Art Worker of the Azerbaijan SSR
Honoured Art Worker of the Azerbaijan SSR
The house in Baku where Mirgasimov spent his childhood.
Repin Institute that Mirgasimov graduated from in 1951 (the building nowadays).