TEHRAN – The Iranian cultural attaché’s office in Moscow signed an agreement with the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute.
The rector of the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute
Boris Tarasov and the Iranian cultural attaché Seyyed Hossein Tabatabaei signed the agreement, Iran’s Islamic Culture and Relations Organization announced in a press release on Tuesday.
According to agreement, both sides should organize joint cultural and academic programs in the near future.
Holding mutual tours for writers and publishing articles by Iranian and Russian scholars have also been discussed in the agreement.
The Maxim Gorky Literature Institute is an institution of higher education in Moscow. Founded in 1933 on the initiative of Maxim Gorky, it received its current name at the time of Gorky’s death in 1936.
The institute’s curriculum includes courses in the humanities and social sciences, and seminars on a variety of literary genres, including prose, poetry, drama, children’s literature, literary criticism, writing for the popular press and literary translation.
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