Avetik Isahakyan

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Avetik Isahakian (Armenian: Ավեթիգ Իսահագիան; Russian: Аветик Саакович Исаакян; October 31 [O.S. October 19] 1875), Kazarapat, near Aleksandropol, current Gyumri – October 17, 1957, Yerevan) was an Armenian lyric poet.

Isahakian was educated at the Kevorkian seminary in Echmiadzin and later at Leipzig University, where he studied philosophy and anthropology. He was exiled from the Russian Empire in 1911 due to his revolutionary ideas and actions, and settled in Europe. He would later return to the Armenian SSR in 1936. Isahakian became the president of the Armenian Writer's Union.

His poems are those of love and sorrow. His best work is "Abu-Lala Mahari" (1909–1911), while his other well-known works include "Songs and Novels" and "The Mother's Heart". He became a member of the Armenian SSR Academy of Sciences in 1943. During the Great Patriotic War Isahakian wrote patriotic poems, for which he was awarded the USSR State Prize in 1946.

His face appears on the Armenian 10,000 dram bill.

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Avetik Isahakian:Notebooks of a Lyric Poet; translated, introduced, and annotated by Leon D. Megrian; Lanham, Md: University Press of America, 1991, ISBN 0-8191-8051-3

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Biography of Avetik Isahakian

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Leaders of Armenia since 1918

Democratic Republic of Armenia (1918-1920): Avetis Aharonian • Avetik Isahakyan • Avetis Aharonian

Soviet era (1921-1991): as part of Transcaucasian SFSR (1922-1936), Armenian SSR (1936-1991), First Secretaries: Sergey Lukashin • Ashot Hovhannisyan • Haik Ovsepyan • Aykaz Kostanyan • Agasi Khandzhan • Amatuni Vartapetyan • Grigory Arutyunov • Suren Tovmasyan • Yakov Zarobyan • Anton Kochinyan • Karen Demirchyan • Suren Arutyunyan • Vladimir Movsisyan • Stepan Pogosyan • Aram Sargsyan