Opening of an international scientific and practical conference on “Nasimi’s spiritual legacy in the historical and cultural context of the Orient in Middle Ages” took place in the building of the Asian and African Countries Institute under the Moscow State University named after M.V.Lomonosov, in the framework of the Nasimi – Poetry, Art and Morality Festival, organized by the Heydar Aliyev Foundation with the support of the Azerbaijani Embassy in Russia.