A literary club was held in Moscow to honor the People's Poet of Tajikistan Loik Sherali

MONDAY, 30.10.2026 /Khovar National Information Agency/. On the initiative of the Embassy of the Republic of Tajikistan in the Russian Federation, in cooperation with the Moscow State University of Linguistics (MGLU), a scientific and practical conference dedicated to the 85th anniversary of the People's Poet of Tajikistan Loik Sherali was held. In this regard, the correspondent of Khovar National Information Agency in Russia reports.

A wide range of scholars, writers, resident diplomatic corps of the country of residence, members of the Public Council under the Embassy and Tajik students took part in the cultural event.

The Ambassador of the Republic of Tajikistan to the Russian Federation, Davlatshah Gulmahmadzoda, referring to the poet's tireless services in the development of modern Tajik literature and culture, emphasized that Ustad Loiq Sherali recognized his mission in singing original poetry and reviving the originality of national poetry, and achieved full success in fulfilling this goal.

The head of the diplomatic mission mentioned the literary initiatives of the President of the Republic of Tajikistan, the Leader of the Nation, Emomali Rahmon, in terms of the magnificence of the works of master Loiq Sherali, and considered the popularity of the poet's poetry in Tajikistan and neighboring countries as proof of the continuity and immortality of the works of this speaker of the times.

Rector of the Moscow State University of Linguistics, Irina Kraeva, proudly spoke about the Tajik Language and Culture Center, which has been operating at the University since 2013. He emphasized the importance of learning the language and culture of friendly and brotherly states that have a strategic partnership.

Also, director of the Diplomatic Academy of Moscow State University of International Relations (MGIMO) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Shitkov, adviser of the Iranian Embassy in Russia, head of the Cultural Center Abdulreza Reshad, famous Russian poet, translator, literary critic, historian of Russian literature, recipient of the Tajik State Prize in the field of literature Mikhail Sinelnikov, orientalist, political scientist and leading employee of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences Viktor Nemchinov, candidate philological sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Language and Culture of the Peoples of the CIS, Military University of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Khurshed Saidumarov, director of the Tajik Language and Culture Center of the Moscow State University of Linguistics Nikita Kuzin and others spoke.

It should be said that in 2018, with the initiative and guidance of the Leader of the Nation, a great palace of culture was opened in the city of Panjakent and named after this visionary poet, which is considered to be the expression of the status of this great orator in strengthening unity and protecting national interests during the independence period.

Today, this magnificent palace is known as "Loiq Palace", and the people of ancient Panjakent regularly hold meetings with teenagers and young people in this place of enlightenment and actively promote the ideas of statehood, strengthening of peace and stability and the values of national culture.

At the event, it was emphasized that Ustad Laiq Sherali is one of those speakers who, with his high-content poems, praised the message of peace, courage and masculinity, love for the motherland, self-awareness and unity of the nation, and promoted the people to the prosperous future of the nation.

At the conference, it was revealed that one of the factors that made Master Laiq Sherali a popular poet was to awaken a warm feeling of patriotism and self-awareness in the reader, to strengthen the ideas of godliness, which in the past required extraordinary personal and literary courage from the poet.

Speakers of the club emphasized that Laiq Sherali's poems originated from the spiritual life of the Tajik people, and reflected not only the bitter and difficult moments of the Tajik nation, but also its glory and the fate of famous children, for example, the series of poems "Hoki Watan" and "Ilham az Shahnoma".

At the same time, in this event, it was especially expressed that Laiq Sherali wrote separate poems in honor of the great children of the Tajik nation, including the head of Tajik and Persian classic literature, Abu Abdullah Rudaki, Abul Qasim Firdavsi, Abul Qasim Ibn Sina, Umar Khayyam, Hafiz Shirozi, Saadi Shirozi, Ahmadi Donish, Sadriddin Aini, Abul Qasim Lohuti, Babajon Ghafurov and Mirzo Tursunzoda. has forgiven

At the end of the event, the students of the country of residence, who study Tajik language at MGLU, recited the poems of Loiq Sherali in Tajik language.