May 10 city center will be closed

Baku/07.05.14/Turan : In connection with the celebration of Flower Holiday by the authorities on May 10, the center of the capital will be closed. According to the Traffic Police Department of the capital, from 08:00 am until evening to traffic  in the parliamentary avenuewill be closed. This is done for the convenience of those who will visit the grave of Heydar Aliyev.

Traffic in front of Bulbul  Street in front of Heydar Aliyev Palace , where the main festivities take place, will also be closed.  The traffic will be blocked  in  Shamsi Badalbayli Street  at the crossing of this  street with R.Beybutov Street.

Police called on citizens not to use personal transportation in these places.

Traffic in the Bul Bul Street  has been blocked for several days because of  trailers  in front of the Heydar Aliyev Palace, which have brought a huge amount of imported flowers. Foreign suppliers and employees of  design companies for several days are  engaged in making stands, on  all sorts of flowers will be placed. This year, the scale of the holiday will extended to Winter Boulevard behind  Heydar Aliyev Palace.

Special pride of the authorities is a huge stand , which creates a portrait of flowers Aliyevmade  of flowers. The  authorities prefer not to speak  about the source of million of manats spent on  the  holiday. This holiday has been celebrated for a few years and is  dedicated to the birthday of Heydar Aliyev with the motivation that he was very fond of roses. -02/16В