Fuad Salayev

Fuad Salayev is an Azerbaijani sculptor.

He was born in 1943. He firstly graduated from Azerbaijan State Art School named after A. Azimzade. Then he goes to Moscow and here he graduates from Surikov Moscow Art Institute. He got involves many exhibitions of the Soviet Union, and he had a lot of creative projects with the Russian Academy of Arts. He created the monument of Sergei Yesenin. It was his first major work. But the poet's monument in Russia at that time was not raised yet. He is the vice-rector of the Academy of Arts now. He is People's Artist. Fuad Salayev was honoured with Shohrat Order. Professor Fuad Salayev was named an academician of the Russian Academy of Arts.