Renowned French actor Gerard Depardieu visited the Heydar Aliyev Foundation on Tuesday.
The actor was told the main goal of the Foundation, which was established in the memory of the Azerbaijani people`s national leader, to study and popularize rich heritage of prominent political figure Heydar Aliyev, give an idea to the future generations and foreign visitors about his large-scale activity to achieve Azerbaijan`s socio-economic, cultural progress, and assist projects promoting history and culture of the country.
The Foundation performs huge projects, makes contribution to the realization of dreams of the national leader, who dedicated his honest life to the strengthening and popularization of his motherland, whose deep faith in statehood is a sample to generations. The guests familiarized themselves with pictures and exhibits covering leadership of the great leader in the Republic.
The actor viewed exhibits taken from the archive of the great leader and reflecting his childhood, youth, university years and career, pictures covering the very various moments of his life and giving a comprehensive idea of the whole history of Azerbaijan, books written on the national leader, gifts presented to him by world-famous political figures, photos taken with figures of science, culture and art, leaders of different countries.
He signed the Foundation`s guest book.
Then, Gerard Depardieu saw a film on national leader Heydar Aliyev`s services to the Azerbaijani people and large-scale projects in various spheres carried out by the Foundation in the country.

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