The Monument to Nizami Ganjavi in Saint Petersburg is located in a square situated between houses 25 and 27 on Kamennoostrovsky Prospekt.

[1] The sculpture had been founded in Baku and then presented to Saint Petersburg as a gift from Azerbaijan on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the city's origination.

[2] The sculpture was created by Gerush Babayev, an Azerbaijani sculptor, alumni of the Saint Petersburg Art and Industry Academy.

[3][4] The head of the Iranian Philology Department and the dean of the Oriental Faculty of St. Petersburg State University I. M. Steblin-Kamensky, speaking of this monument characterises the description of Nizami as an Azerbaijani poet as a fruit of nationalist tendencies and as an “outright falsification”.

Nizami Ganjavi is portrayed sitting on a bench under an arch, in the Eastern attire, with a book in hand.