Dear David Nikitich!

I congratulate you on the occassion of your glorious 75 jubilee, I wish you health, happiness and further creative successes.

The Kalmyk literature which has brought the powerful contribution to the treasury of world-wide culture, by the right is proud of you as genuine national poet. The important problems of our century are embodied in your private fate, works and public work. Your poetry which was formed on spiritual traditions of the Kalmyk nation, in all stages of history always served to the ideals of good, humanism, common to all mankind values.

As a singer of the nation`s friendship you could keep faithfulness in your secret subject and in complicated conditions of the postsoviet area, defending successive the development of many-sided cultural relations. At the same time philosophical and civil understanding of reality, great humanistic ideas of the world-wide literature have obtained the new sounding.

The strong and courageous Heros of your works continued the ascending antiquity tradition of Kalmyk eposes, singing of heroic spirit and patriotism. Coming to the literature as romantic, you could keep in your creative work that faithfulness to the ideals of youths in your poems which became the lessons of moral and spiritual perfection for succeeding generations.

The old friendship connects you with Azerbaijan. I am sure that the modern stage of our history will add a lot of new pages to the further development of Azerbaijani-Kalmyk cooperation in all fields.

May your life be long!

I embrace you strong.

Yours Heydar Aliyev, the Azerbaijani President