Poems

Gevorg Emin was born in Ashtarak. In 1940 he graduated from Karl Marx Institute of Polytechnic, Faculty of Hydraulic Engineering. From 1942 to 1944 he participated in the Great Patriotic War. From 1949 to 1950 he studied at the Armenian Writers' Studio of the Moscow Literary Institute. From 1951 to 1954 he was a correspondent for "Litteraturnaya Armenia" (Literary Armenia) newspaper. From 1954 to 1956 he took higher education courses in literature at the USSR Writers' Union. From 1968 to 1972 he was the editor of "Litteraturnaya Armenia" monthly magazine. From 1973 he worked as a senior researcher at the ASSR Institute of Art. In 1979 he was awarded the Order of Friendship of Peoples and in 1984 the Order of the October Revolution. He died in Yerevan.