Beautiful Yerevan

He was born in the village of Kartsakh in the Akhalkalaki district. In 1958 he graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Yerevan State University. In the same year the poet's collection of poems "Im garuny" (My Spring) was published. He translated works by Schiller and Heine into Armenian, and translated a number of poetry collections from Russian. He also wrote works for young children. He wrote many literary parodies, epigrams, puns and feuilletons. For many years he worked at the satirical magazine "Vozni" (Hedgehog). Many of his works were turned into songs. He collaborated with the composers Robert Amirkhanyan and Areg Lusinyan. He wrote the lyrics of the song for the programme "Hekiatn e kanchum" (The Fairy Tale Is Calling), broadcast by the Public Television of Armenia. His works have been translated into Russian, Ukrainian, Romanian and other languages. He died in Yerevan.