Rasul Gamzatov

Rasul Gamzatov studied at Maxim Gorky Literature Institute. The recorded working language is Russian and Avar. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are verse, narrative poetry and long poem. Positions recorded include member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR and people's deputy of union of socialist soviet republics. Distinctions recorded are Hero of Socialist Labour, Lenin Prize, Stalin Prize, 3rd degree and Maxim Gorky RSFSR State Prize.

• Name — Rasul Gamzatov • Born — 8 September 1923 • Birthplace — Cada, Khunzakhsky District, Dagestan ASSR, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union • Died — 3 November 2003 • Place of death — 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)

Gamzatov was born on 8 September 1923 in the Avar village of Tsada 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. 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. In 1939 he graduated from Pedagogical College. He had various jobs serving as a school teacher, an assistant director in the theater, a journalist in newspapers and a radio host. From 1945 to 1950 he studied at the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute. Gamzatov was awarded the State Stalin Prize in 1952, The Lenin Prize in 1963, and Laureate Of The International Botev Prize in 1981. Gamzatov died on 3 November 2003 at the age of 80 in the Moscow Central Clinical Hospital. He was buried in the old Muslim cemetery in Tarki, next to the grave of his wife. A monument to Gamzatov was unveiled on 5 July 2013 on Yauzsky Boulevard in central Moscow. One of his poems, The Oath, has later become the anthem of Dagestan in 2016, translated into Russian by Nikolay Dorizo.

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