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Rasul Gamzatovich Gamzatov
Расул Гамзатов
Birth at
8 September 1923
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Russia, 08.09.1923 - 03.11.2003
Rasul Gamzatovich Gamzatov was born on September 8, 1923 in the Avar village of Tsada (Khunzakh district, Dagestan), in the family of a national poet, classic of Avar literature Gamzat Tsadas. His father was his first teacher in poetry. Rasul Gamzatov wrote his first poem at the age of 11. After graduating from the local school, he entered the pedagogical school. In 1940 he returned to his school as a teacher, but did not work there for long. Then he changed several
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Russia, 08.09.1923 - 03.11.2003
Rasul Gamzatovich Gamzatov was born on September 8, 1923 in the Avar village of Tsada (Khunzakh district, Dagestan), in the family of a national poet, classic of Avar literature Gamzat Tsadas. His father was his first teacher in poetry. Rasul Gamzatov wrote his first poem at the age of 11. After graduating from the local school, he entered the pedagogical school. In 1940 he returned to his school as a teacher, but did not work there for long. Then he changed several jobs: he was an assistant director in the Avar mobile theater, collaborated in the newspaper "Bolshevik Mountains", worked on the radio. In 1943, the first collection of poems by Rasul Gamzatov “Fiery love and burning hatred” was published. In 1945-50 he studied in Moscow at the Gorky Literary Institute. In 1947, the first book of Gamzatov’s poems in Russian was published. Since then, about thirty books have been published in the Russian and Avar languages: The Word of the Big Brother (1952), The Dagestan Spring (1955), The Mountaineer (1958), My Heart in the Mountains (1959), High Stars (1962), Beads of Years, Two Shali, Letters and many others. The world fame of the poet brought the song to his poems “Cranes” that appeared in 1969, written by Jan Frenkel on the initiative of Marc Bernez.
In 1954, Rasul Gamzatov received the Stalin Prize for the book The Year of My Birth, in 1963 he was awarded the Lenin Prize, and in 1974 he was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor. In 2003, in connection with the 80th anniversary, the poet was awarded the highest order of Russia - the Order of Andrew the First-Called. Rasul Gamzatov died after a serious illness on November 3, 2003.