8 Jun in 21:00 Oleg Kusov. Exclusively for Vestnik Kavkaza
2023 will be announced in Russia as the Year of the poet and thinker Rasul Gamzatov. Dagestan will become the center for celebrating its centenary, but events will be held throughout the country. Rasul Gamzatov was born on September 8, 1923 in the village of Tsada in the Khunzakh region of Dagestan. Dozens of his poetic, prose and journalistic works were published in the Avar and Russian languages and in many languages of the world. After graduating from the M. Gorky Moscow Literary Institute in 1950, Gamzatov was appointed chairman of the board of the Writers Union of Dagestan, where he worked until his death in November 2003.