Russia, Iran, Kyrgyzstan and Azerbaijan mark the centenary of the birth of the poet Rasul Gamzatov

It is planned to hold festive events on the occasion of the centenary of the birth of the Russian Dagestan poet Rasul Gamzatov in Russia, Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan, Belarus and Azerbaijan.

As for Iran, it will inaugurate a bust of the poet.

This was stated by the Russian news agency “TASS”, the daughter of the poet Salha Rasulova.
She said, “The television competition entitled “Our Song” will be held at the Russian Embassy in Mongolia, in which artists who will perform Rasul Hamzatov’s songs will participate. It is also planned to hold the “Culture of the Peoples of the North Caucasus” festival and the “Granq” festival for military patriotic song” on the occasion of the centenary of Rasul Hamzatov’s birth in The capital of Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek.

As for the Republics of Belarus and Azerbaijan, next year, they will witness a number of cultural and literary events.

This year, professors and students at Allama Tabatabay University in Tehran plan to inaugurate a bust of Rasul Gamzatov at the university.

With regard to Russia, it will witness, within the framework of the festive campaign, festivals, parties, exhibitions, revival of plays, scientific seminars and literary evenings.

It is noteworthy that Rasul Gamzatov was born in 1923 in the Dagestani village of Tsada in the family of the well-known poet Hamza Tsadasa. In his youth, he taught in schools. In 1950 he graduated from the Gorky Institute of Literature in Moscow. His poetry is characterized by nationalism, romance and lyricism. And he said about his poetic creativity himself that the stages of his poetry are like three wives: “The first is cruel and stubborn, and she is in the Stalinist era that did not know mercy, and despite this wife’s stubbornness and cruelty, life was safe and majestic under her, the second is beautiful and drunk with her freedom and launch, and the third is the wife we ​​are looking for All… It is fair and calm, as you described it in the poem “The Black Box” and contains everything that is hidden and exciting in the life of the poet Hamzatov.

The poet was known in particular for his poems in which he sings of women: the mother, the wife, and the granddaughter. He was a member of the Union of Soviet Writers and a member of the Supreme Soviet, awarded the Lenin Prize, and was known for his social and cultural activities and support for young poets. His poems have been translated into Arabic repeatedly, and Hamzatov visited Egypt, Lebanon and Syria repeatedly.

Rasul Gamzatov passed away silently on November 3, 2003