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Rasul Gamzatovich Gamzatov (Avar: ХӀамзатазул Расул ХӀамзатил вас, romanized: Ħamzatazul Rasul Ħamzatil vas, IPA:[ħamzatilrasul]; [Расу́л Гамза́тович Гамза́тов] Error: {{Langx}}: invalid parameter: |a= (help); 8 September 1923 – 3 November 2003) was a Russian poet who wrote in Avar. 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 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.[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.
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 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.[3]
Order of the Friendship of Peoples (6 September 1993) – for outstanding contribution to the development of the multinational Soviet literature and productive social activities
http://www.gamzatov.ru – Official site, coordinated by Ministry of national politics, information and foreign affairs of Dagestan (in Russian and in English).
