Azerbaijan Technical University (AzTU) held an event dedicated to "Reading Day" in order to develop reading habits among students and increase interest in reading.

Habib Mirzayev, head of the Department of Humanities, spoke about the establishment and importance of "Reading Day" at the official part of the event. Habib Mirzayev also drew attention to the exceptional role of the book in the formation of personality, national-spiritual and universal values.

Gulshan Rzayeva, associate professor of the Department of Humanities, who spoke later, said that such events held for the purpose of improving reading habits and forming a reading culture are of great importance in terms of moral enrichment of students.

In the artistic part of the event, AzTU students performed a play of the same name based on the motifs of the play "Daughter's Father" by the writer-playwright, honored artist Afgan Askerov. Students also recited poems and songs from the works of folk poets Mammad Araz and Zalimkhan Yagub.