Taraggi

The Taraggi Medal ("Progress Medal"; Azerbaijani: "Tərəqqi" medalı) – is the state award of Azerbaijan Republic. The award was created by Heydar Aliyev, the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, on December 6, 1993 by the Decree No. 758.

Taraggi "Tərəqqi" medalı
Awarded by President of Azerbaijan
Type	Individual Award
Eligibility	Azerbaijani government's civilian personnel, citizens and non-citizens, foreign civilians
Awarded for	Special contributions in the sphere of science, culture, literature, arts, public education and health, etc.
Status	Active
Clasps	1
Statistics
Established	December 6, 1993. Decree No. 758
Precedence
Next (higher)	Medal for Courage

Status

The Taraggi Medal is given to:

• Citizens of Azerbaijan Republic
• Foreign nationals and non-citizens of Azerbaijan Republic
• People without citizenship

The medal is given to distinguished persons for the following services:

• Special contributions in the sphere of industry and agriculture;
• Revelation and innovatory proposals of the great importance;
• Special contributions in the sphere of science, culture, literature, arts, public education and health;
• Special contributions on building and reconstruction of agricultural objects;
• Productive activity in development of physical culture and sport.

The medal also was given for particular merits. For example, from July 4, 2011 the medal was given to several persons in the sphere of development of Azerbaijani diaspora by Ilham Aliyev, the President of Azerbaijan Republic.[1]

The Taraggi medal is pinned to the left side of the chest and if there are other medals or orders of Azerbaijan Republic the Taraggi medal is followed Medal for Courage.

Description

The Taraggi Medal is made of brass metal in the form of oval and sharp-edged salient ornament with sizes of 51 mm along vertical line and 48 mm along horizontal line. There is a 51 mm diameter circle in the centre of the ornament framed with decorated stripe of 2,5 mm width, a stripe with curved endings on which is a relief inscription Taraggi, a bud like a branched tree against the background of the radiant Sun. And there is a seven edged star on the top. There are pictures of a crescent and eight-edged star on the rear top side of the medal. There is a stretched hexagon in the bottom for writing the awarding date. The medal is bordered with a salient ledge. All inscriptions and pictures are salient. With the help of eye ring the medal is attached to a tetragonal block. The block consists of 2 ornamented parts concatenated with moiré ribbon of brown color. The left top and bottom edges of the ribbon are olive and are intersected by golden lines of 1 mm width. The whole width of the ribbon is 19 mm. Size of the block is 46 mm x 22 mm.

Recipients

• Leyla Aliyeva – chief editor of "Baku" magazine, chair of Russian department of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation[2]
• Israfil Ashurlu – alpinist, president of Alpinism Federation of Azerbaijan
• Fazil Hasanov – chair of Azerbaijanis' Cultural Center
• Tale Heydarov – chair of European-Azerbaijani Society
• Namig Mamedov – professor of Russian Academy of Sciences
• Erich Feigl – Austrian] writer, journalist, documentary film-maker and film producer
• Rahid Alekberli – chief technical officer of Delta Telecom
• Ilgar Nazarov
• Elchin Safaraly-oghlu Babayev[3]
• Enes Cansever – Zaman Daily editor-in-chief[4][5]
• Iskandar Shirali[6] – the head of Integrated Drilling Trust of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR)
• Said Irandoust [7]
• Seven representatives from the Azerbaijan Red Crescent Society[8]
• Azerbaijan National Agency for Mine Action[9]
• Medical workers.[10]
• Employees of Azerbaijan National Library[11]
• Education workers of the Ganja State University[12][13]
• Teymur Hajiyev[14]
• Huseyn Gasimov – former head of finance, BP Azerbaijan 2009
• German Zaharyaev – Azerbaijani born Russian billionaire[15]
• Pasha Kerimov – doctor of philology sciences, deputy director of ANAS Institute of Manuscripts
• Rashad Nabiyev – chair of the board and chief executive officer of Azercosmos.
• Namig Mammadov – Azerbaijani public figure, businessman and maecenas.[16]

References

1. "Azərbaycan diasporunun inkişafındakı xidmətlərinə görə bir qrup şəxsin təltif edilməsi haqqında Azərbaycan Respublikası Prezidentinin Sərəncamı". president.az.
2. "В Баку проходит третий съезд азербайджанцев мира". vestikavkaza.ru.
3. "Shamakhy Astrophysical Observatory". Archived from the original on October 24, 2016. Retrieved October 24, 2016.
4. "jeanpaulleblanc.com - jeanpaulleblanc Resources and Information". Retrieved October 24, 2016.
5. Azerbaijan Awards State Medal to Zaman Daily
6. https://azertag.az/xeber/AZARBAYCAN_RESPUBLIKASININ_NEFT_SANAYESI_ISCHILARININ_TARAQQI_MEDALI_ILA_TALTIF_EDILMASI_HAQQINDA_AZARBAYCAN_RESPUBLIKASI_PREZIDENTININ_SARANCAMI-452615
7. "AIT president receives Medal of Progress from Azerbaijani president". 2006.
8. Azerbaijan Red Crescent Society
9. http://www.anama.baku.az/pictures/_anamanews/awards_to_anama.pdf%5B%5D
10. "Azerbaijan's President signs executive order on awarding medical workers". Archived from the original on June 19, 2008. Retrieved October 24, 2016.
11. "Azerbaijani President awards employees of National Library". Retrieved October 24, 2016.
12. "Azerbaijani President Decrees To Award Taraggi Medal To Educational Workers". The Journal of the Turkish Weekly. 22 April 2009. Archived from the original on 15 June 2011. Retrieved 16 May 2009.
13. Azerbaijan’s President issues orders to award employees of Ganja State University Archived February 25, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
14. Azerfon employee is awarded with the Taraggi medal Archived October 9, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
15. Holding, APA Information Agency, APA. "A group of persons were awarded for their merits in the development of the Azerbaijani diaspora". Retrieved October 24, 2016.
16. İlham Əliyev (February 6, 2014). "Azərbaycan Respublikasında informasiya-kommunikasiya və kosmik sənaye sahələrində çalışan şəxslərin təltif edilməsi haqqında Azərbaycan Respublikası Prezidentinin Sərəncamı". president.az (in Azerbaijani). Archived from the original on May 19, 2017. Retrieved May 19, 2017.