Hakob Hakobian (poet)

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Hakob Hakobian (1866, Elisavetpol - 1937, Tbilisi) was a Soviet Armenian poet, the founder of Armenian proletary poesia. Communist party member from 1904. Awarded by the People's Poet of Armenia and Georgia official titles^[1]. He was considered as the "Armenian Maksim Gorky" by the Bolshevik press^[2].

Hakobian published his first book in 1899. He's the author of famous revolutionary poems that include "One more cut" (1905), "Revolution" (1905), "Died but didnt dissappeared" (1906), "Red waves" (1911), "Shir-Kanal" (1924) etc. Hakobian was appointed as the Bank's commissar of Soviet Georgia, he was a member of the government of Transcaucasian federation.

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• Луначарский А. В., А. Акопян, в его кн.: Статьи о советской литературе, М. (in Russian), 1958;
• Саркисян Г., А. Акопян, Ер., 1956.

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