RASUL HAMZATOV PASSED AWAY
The well-known Avar poet with world famous, Hero of Socialist Labor, Lenin and State Prize winner Rasul Hamzat oglu Hamzatov has passed away. He was born in 1932 in the Sada village of the Khunzakh region of Daghestan, in the family of the People’s Poet Hamzat Sadasa.
His first verses Rasul Hamzatov wrote when he was 11.
Later he has published tens of books of verses that have translated into many languages, including Azerbaijani.
Rasul Hamzatov, whose 80th jubilee was recently celebrated, had many friends in Azerbaijan, among the Azerbaijani poets and writers.
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