Hakob Hakobian ( hy, Հակոբ Հակոբյան; often transliterated from Russian as Akop Akopian; 29 May 1866, in
Elisavetpol – 13 November 1937, in
Tbilisi
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), was a
Soviet Armenia
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n poet, the founder of Armenian proletarian poetry.
Communist party
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member from 1904. Awarded with the titles
People's Poet
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of Armenia and People's Poet of Georgia. He was considered as the "Armenian
Maksim Gorky
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" by the
Bolshevik
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press.
[газета "Путь правды", 13 сентября 1914 (in Russian)]
Hakobian published his first book in 1899. He's the author of revolutionary poems that include ''One more cut'' (1905), ''Revolution'' (1905), ''Died but didn't disappear'' (1906), ''Red waves'' (1911), ''Shir-Kanal'' (1924) etc. Hakobian was appointed as the Bank's commissar of
Soviet Georgia
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, he was a member of the government of
Transcaucasian Federation.
Books
* Луначарский А. В., А. Акопян, в его кн.: Статьи о советской литературе, М. (in Russian), 1958;
* Саркисян Г., А. Акопян, Ер., 1956.
References
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1866 births
1937 deaths
Writers from Ganja, Azerbaijan
20th-century Armenian poets
Russian people of Armenian descent
Burials at Armenian Pantheon of Tbilisi
Armenian male poets
20th-century male writers