As part of a wide program of events in Uzbekistan dedicated to the 300th anniversary of the Turkmen poet and philosopher Magtymguly Fragi, on the 2nd of the May, the Turkmen National Cultural Centre of Tashkent together with the Union of Writers of the Republic of Uzbekistan organized a creative event entitled «Magtymguly Fragi - the common heritage of the Turkmen and Uzbek peoples» («Magtymguly Pyragy – türkmen we özbek halklarynyň umumy mirasy»).
A Turkmen delegation led by the executive secretary of the National Commission of Turkmenistan for UNESCO was sent to Tashkent to participate in the event. Hero of Turkmenistan Chynar Rustemova. The delegation included two employees of the Institute of Language, Literature and National Manuscripts named after Magtymguly of the Academy of Sciences of Turkmenistan, a senior lecturer at the Department of Turkmen Literature of the Turkmen State University named after Magtymguly, artists representing creative groups of the Mukams Palace of the State Cultural Centre of Turkmenistan and the Ashgabat Hakimlik, as well as musicians-teachers children's art schools in Dashoguz velayat.
The event showed that despite all the features of the national cultures of the Turkmen and Uzbek peoples, they are united by a common and indivisible heritage. Many Uzbek folk songs are based on Magtymguly’s poems; the unsurpassed works of the great poet and philosopher are regularly published in large editions in Uzbekistan. In memory of Magtymguly Fragi, memorial complexes were erected in Tashkent and Khiva, which became a place of attraction for admirers of his work. And today, when a new stage has begun in the history of relations of friendship and good neighborliness between Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, the immortal artistic heritage of Magtymguly Fragi acquires even more importance for the two fraternal peoples.
