Rasul Gamzatov

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Rasul Gamzatov
Rasul Gamzatov receiving Order of St. Andrew
Born	(1923-09-08)8 September 1923 Cada village, Khunzakhsky District, Dagestan ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died	3 November 2003(2003-11-03) (aged 80) Moscow, Russia
Occupation	Poet
Title	Hero of Socialist Labour (1974)
Awards	Order of St. Andrew (Russia) Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" (Russia,3rd class) Order of Lenin (USSR,×4) Order of the October Revolution (USSR) Order of the Red Banner of Labour (USSR,×3) Order of Friendship of Peoples (USSR) Order of the Golden Fleece (Georgia) Lenin Prize (1963) USSR State Prize (1952)

Rasul Gamzatovich Gamzatov (Avar: ХӀамзатил Расул, IPA: [ħamzatil rasul]; Russian: Расу́л Гамза́тович Гамза́тов, IPA: [rɐˈsul ɡɐmˈzatəvʲɪtɕ ɡɐmˈzatəf] (listen); 8 September 1923 – 3 November 2003) was a popular Avar poet. Among his poems was Zhuravli, which became a well-known Soviet song.^[1]

Life[]

Gamzatov was born on 8 September 1923 in the Avar village of in the north-east Caucasus. His father, Gamzat Tsadasa, was a well-known bard, heir to the ancient tradition of minstrelsy still thriving in the mountains.^[2] He was eleven when he wrote his first verse about a group of local boys who ran down to the clearing where an airplane had landed for the first time. A number of different poems by him also became songs, such as Gone Sunny Days.

Gamzatov was awarded the State Stalin Prize in 1952, The Lenin Prize in 1963, and Laureate Of The International Botev Prize in 1981.

A monument to Gamzatov was unveiled on 5 July 2013 on Yauzsky Boulevard in central Moscow.^[3]

Honours and awards[]

Stamp of Russia, 2013

Vladimir Putin and Sergey Sobyanin in opening ceremony of the monument to the poet Rasul Gamzatov in Yauzsky Boulevard in Moscow.

Monument to Rasul Gamzatov in Makhachkala

• Hero of Socialist Labour (27 September 1974)
• Order of St. Andrew (8 September 2003) - for outstanding contribution to the development of national literature and public activities^[4]
• Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 3rd class (18 April 1999) - for outstanding contribution to the multinational culture of Russia
• Order of the Friendship of Peoples (6 September 1993) - for outstanding contribution to the development of the multinational Soviet literature and productive social activities
• Four Orders of Lenin
• Order of the October Revolution
• Order of the Red Banner of Labour, four times
• Order of Saints Cyril and Methodius (Bulgaria)
• Lenin Prize (1963) - for the book "High Star"
• Stalin Prize, third class (1952) - a collection of poems and the poems "The year of my birth"
• State Prize of the RSFSR, Gorky (1980) - for the poem "Take care of mothers'
• People's Poet of Daghestan
• International Award for "Best Poet of the 20th century"
• Writers Award in Asia and Africa "Lotus"
• Jawaharlal Nehru Award
• Ferdowsi Award
• Award of Hristo Botev
• International Prize Sholokhov in art and literature
• Award Lermontov
• Award Fadeeva
• Award Batyr
• Award Mahmoud
• C. Award Stalskiy
• G. Award Tsadasy
• Order of the Golden Fleece (Georgia)

References[]

External links[]

• http://www.gamzatov.ru - Official site, coordinated by Ministry of national politics, information and foreign affairs of Dagestan (in Russian and in English).
• Gamzatov poetry
• http://gazeta.ru/2003/11/03/umerrasulgam.shtml - Necrology at http://gazeta.ru (in Russian)
• https://web.archive.org/web/20040707115614/http://www.dagpravda.ru/ob/rasul01-11-03.htm - Obituary in "Dagestanskaja Pravda" (in Russian)