Taraggi Medal

Taraggi Medal
The Taraggi Medal ("Progress Medal") – 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.
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.
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
Ilkin Mammadov - Head of the International Relations Department of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan
Anar Baghirov – lawyer, chairman of the Azerbaijan Bar Association
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
Ramin Isayev
Elchin Safaraly-oghlu Babayev
Enes Cansever – Zaman Daily editor-in-chief
Iskandar Shirali – the head of Integrated Drilling Trust of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR)
Said Irandoust
Seven representatives from the Azerbaijan Red Crescent Society
Azerbaijan National Agency for Mine Action
Medical workers.
Employees of Azerbaijan National Library
Education workers of the Ganja State University
Teymur Hajiyev
Huseyn Gasimov – former head of finance, BP Azerbaijan 2009
German Zaharyaev – Azerbaijani born Russian billionaire
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.
Mushfig Guluyev – Ministry of Digital Development and Transport of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
Namig Mammadov – Azerbaijani public figure, businessman and maecenas.
Shakir Hasanov – Azerbaijani engineer
Gulshan Aliyeva-Kengerli – professor
References
Orders, decorations, and medals of Azerbaijan
Awards established in 1993
1993 establishments in Azerbaijan
Recipients of the Taraggi