Vagif Mausoleum

Vagif Mausoleum was built in honor of Molla Panah Vagif, a poet, distinguished statesman and diplomat and vizier - the overseas minister of the Karabakh Khanate. The mausoleum is placed inside the metropolis of Shusha in Karabakh place of Azerbaijan. The production of the mausoleum began within the 1970s and became finished in 1982.

It becomes inaugurated by using then the First Secretary of Communist Party of Azerbaijan, Heydar Aliyev. The mausoleum become built with the aid of sculptor A. Mustafayev based totally at the design by member of the National Academy of Sciences Abdul Vakhav Salamzade and widely known architect E.I. Kanukov. It is positioned inside the southwestern a part of Shusha, via the Jidir Duzu simple, where the poet became killed and is a part of Shusha State Historical and Architectural Reserve. The layout of the mausoleum follows the pattern of Azerbaijani mausoleums architectural compositions inclusive of Nizami Mausoleum in Ganja. It rises to 18 meters in top.