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The Russian Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States, Rossotrudnichestvo, has awarded Honored Art Worker of Azerbaijan, founder and curator of the Baku Miniature Books Museum Zarifa Salahova with a Badge of Honour "for friendship and cooperation", AzerTac state news agency reported.

At the awarding ceremony, Zarifa Salahova expressed her gratitude to Russian ambassador to Azerbaijan Vladimir Dorokhin.

Salahova highlighted the activities of the library. She noted that 5,240 miniature books from 71 countries were being demonstrated at the museum.

The Baku Miniature Books Museum -is the only museum of miniature books in the world, settled in the old part of Baku, called Inner City. It was founded on April 23, 2002. Exhibits of the museum have been collected by Zarifa Salahova over the period of 30 years.

The collection includes miniature books published in post-revolutionary Russia and in the Soviet period. It also features books of Moldova, Georgia, Ukraine, Belarus as well as Middle Asian and European countries.

The museum also showcases books of Russian writers and poets Chukovsky, Barto, Gogol, Dostoyevsky, and Pushkin, as well as miniature books of outstanding Azerbaijani classics, such as Vagif, Khurshidbanu Natavan, Nizami Ganjavi, Nasimi, Fizuli, Samed Vurgun, and Mirza Fatali Akhundov.