Culture
The city has a wide range of cultural activities, amenities and museums. It has a cultural center called Heydar Aliyev Palace, which has a permanent local painting exhibition and a theatre hall for an audience of 1000 people, and a recently restored Soviet-time Opera Theatre where the Naxçıvan Dövlət Musiqili Dram Teatrı (Nakhchivan State Musical Drama Theatre) realises theatre plays, concerts, musicals and opera.
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