Hakob Hakobian
Hakob Hakobian
Born	(1866-05-29)29 May 1866 Elisavetpol, Tiflis Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	13 November 1937(1937-11-13) (aged 71) Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union
Nationality	Armenian
Occupation	poet

Hakob Mnatsakani Hakobian (Armenian: Հակոբ Մնացականի Հակոբյան; often transliterated from Russian as Akop Akopian; 29 May 1866 – 13 November 1937) was a Soviet Armenian poet. He was regarded as the founder of Armenian proletarian poetry. Awarded with the titles People's Poet of Armenia and People's Poet of Georgia.^[1] He was considered the "Armenian Maxim Gorky" by the Bolshevik press.^[2]

Hakobian published his first book in 1899. He authored revolutionary poems such as "One More Cut" (1905), "Revolution" (1905), "Died but didn't disappear" (1906), "Red waves" (1911), and "Shir-Kanal" (1924). Hakobian was appointed as the Bank's commissar of Soviet Georgia, 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.

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