A statue of the 16th-century Azerbaijani poet, writer, and thinker Fuzuli forms a major monument in the city of Baku.

[1] For this work, sculptors Tokay Mammadov and Omar Eldarov were awarded silver medals by the USSR Academy of Arts.

The project was jointly prepared by Tokay Mammadov and Omar Eldarov, who studied together at the Repin Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, and who together with architect Haji Mukhtarov won the competition.

Eldarov created the marble portrait of the 19th-century Azerbaijani poet and daughter of the khan of Karabagh Khurshidbanu Natavan in the 1950s.

Soon he was ordered to create the bronze statue of Natavan by the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, the People's Writer of Azerbaijan, Mirza Ibrahimov.