Chairman of the Union of Cartoonists of Azerbaijan Bayram Hajizada has been elected Member of Honor of Russian Art Academy. Making a speech at the presentation ceremony, the President of Russian Art Academy Zurab Chereteli, member of the Presidium Tahir Salahov, Igor Smirnov and Aleksandr Lyubavin, Rector of the Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after Surikov have highly appreciated the activity of Bayram Hajizada on the study, research and promotion of cartoon history, as well as his services in development of this kind of art.          

In the oncoming months, the artist's anniversary exhibition will be held in Moscow at the hall of the Russian Academy of Arts.