to promote the history of wine-producing in Azerbaijan. The festival featured a wine exhibition, a parade of wine producers, an exhibition of different types of folk art of Azerbaijani districts including copper craft, carpet weaving and pottery. Twin cities Iğdır, Turkey Notable natives Falaki Shirvani, poet, (1107, (Shamakhi – 1157, Shamakhi) Khagani Shirvani, poet, (1121/1122, Shamakhi – 1190, Tabriz) Imadaddin Nasimi, poet, (1369, Shamakhi – 1417, Aleppo) Zeynalabdin Shirvani, geographer, historian, ethnographer, philosopher and poet (16 August 1780, Shamakhi – 1838, near Jeddah) Seyid Azim Shirvani, poet, (10 July 1835 – 1 Iyun 1888) Alexander Shirvanzade (Movsisyan), novelist, playwright (18 April 1858, Shamakhi – 7 August 1935, Kislovodsk) Mirza Alakbar Sabir, poet (30 May 1862, Shamakhi – 12 July 1911, Shamakhi) Hovhannes Abelian, actor (23 October 1865, Shamakhi – 1 July 1936, Yerevan) Abbas Sahhat, poet (1874, Shamakhi – 11 July 1918, Ganja) Muhammed hadi, poet (1879, Shamakhi – 1920 Ganja) Zivar bey Ahmadbeyov, architect (1873 Shamakhi – 1925 Baku) Sultan Mejid Qanizade, teacher, writer Kostan Zarian, writer (2 February 1885, Shamakhi – 11 December 1969, Yerevan) Armen Ohanian, dancer, actress, writer, political activist (1887, Shamakhi – 1976, Mexico) Gallery References Further reading Каталог землетрясений Российской Империи (The Catalogue of the Earthquakes in the Russian Empire). Districts of Azerbaijan