Dance Of Boys

He was born in the Armenian-populated village of Chaltyr in the Rostov Region of the Russian Federation. He spent his childhood in Rostov-on-Don, and then settled in Yerevan. In 1971 he graduated from the M. Gorky Literary Institute in Moscow. He was head of a department at the "Hayastan" publishing house. In 1957 his first book of poems was published. In 1980 he received the Hovhannes Tumanyan literary prize of the Writers' Union of Armenia, and later the Avetik Isahakyan and Vahan Tekeyan literary prizes. He died in Yerevan.