Chairman of the Board of Writers' Union of Daghestan, member of the USSR Supreme Soviet Presidium and Hero of Socialist Labor poet Rasul Gamzatov (1923) (left) and Kirghiz writer Chinghiz Aitmatov (1929) (second from left) at a press conference for Soviet and foreign journalists at the 25th CPSU congress press center (February 24-March 5)24.02.1976#849095
Rasul Gamzatov, People's Poet of Dagestan, winner of the USSR Lenin and State Awards, Hero of Socialist Labor, while reading his poems.01.06.1977#826186
From left, South African novelist Alex La Guma, Russian poet Anatoly Sofronov, Dagestani poet Rasul Gamzatov and Kyrgyz novelist Chinghiz Aitmatov at the 5th conference of Afro-Asian Writers in Alma Ata, Kazakhstan, 1973.01.09.1973#689593
Drawing "Poet Rasul Gamzatov" by painter T. Salakhov (born in 1928). Pencil, gouache. 1978. Reproduction.01.07.1978#505936
From left, center: The prominent Avar poet and writer Rasul Gamzatov (1932-2003) and Mikhail Gorbachev, the Secretary General of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and Politburo members during the 28th Communist Party congress in the Kremlin.13.07.1990#429991
Rasul Gamzatov, people's poet of the Daghestan ASSR, a Hero of Socialist Labor, a winner of the State Prize of the USSR (1951), a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. The RSFSR, the Daghestan ASSR.01.05.1986#422122
The fifth session of the Seventh USSR Supreme Soviet [Parliament]. Foreground from left: People's Poet of Dagestan Rasul Gamzatov and Ivan Vorobyov, foreman of construction/assembly administration No. 2 building the Chirkeiskaya hydropower plant in the Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.10.12.1968#415171
Russian President Vladimir Putin awarding the Order of Andrew the First Called to poet Rasul Gamzatov on the poet's 80th birthday. 08.09.2003#163521
Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Dagestani poet Rasul Gamzatov at Bocharov Ruchei residence in Sochi, wished him a happy 80th birthday and presented Gamzatov with the order of St. Andrew the First-Called. 01.10.2003#160002
Classic Avar poet Rassul Gamzatov's grave in the Tarki village cemetery, Makhachkala05.05.2005#116583
Avar Soviet poet Rasul Gamzatov, People's Poet of the Dagestani ASSR, Hero of Socialist Labor, Lenin Prize winner, deputy of the USSR Supreme Soviet. 01.01.1977#98106
Rasul Gamztov, an Avar Soviet poet, people's poet of Daghestan, Hero of the Socialist Labour and winner of the Lenin's prize, deputy of the USSR Supreme Soviet.18.04.1977#60465
Rasul Gamzatov, a Dagestani poet (right), talking with the elders from his native village.01.04.1966#36489
Dagestani poet Rasul Gamzatov, Soviet Writers' Union Board Secretary, talks to 26th Soviet Communist Party Congress delegates. 24.02.1981#26295
Rasul Gamzatov (right), a Soviet poet, Lenin Prize winner, People's Poet of Dagestan, winner of the USSR State Prize, chairman of the Dagestan Writers Union, member of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Council, giving autographs to delegates at the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League 18th Congress (VLKSM).27.04.1978#24493
People's poet of Dagestan Rasul Gamzatov (second right) and composer Yan Frenkel (first left) are singing their songs to the residents of the village Tsada.04.07.1983#9173
Rasul Gamzatov, People's Poet of Daghestan, Hero of Socialist Labor, and Lenin and State Prize winner, in his native village. 12.09.1975#4787
Deputy chairman of the Soviet committee for Asia and Africa's solidarity, Dagestan's poet, Lenin Prize laureate Rasul Gamzatov speaking at the 5th Soviet conference on solidarity with Asian and African nations.06.09.1984#4520
