YEREVAN, JUNE 28, NOYAN TAPAN. The memorial plaque of the great Armenian lyric poet of the second half of the 20th century Hamo Sahyan was opened on June 28 at 3 Kasian Street (Yerevan) where the poet lived in 1960-1973. Sculptor Getik Baghdasarian is the author of the memorial plaque. In the words of the Chairman of the Union of Writers of Armenia Levon Ananian, Hamo Sahyan's unique poetry is infinitely modern and it always accompanies all that is human and beautiful. The poet managed "to restore and enrich our centuries-old lyric poetry, and in his works he put new word and new spirit into the Armenian literature". The Director of the Hamo Sahyan cultural center Shchors Davtian said that H. Sahyan was the innovator of modern Armenian literature. By his definition, by his aesthetic and philosophical comments on interrelations of man and nature, H. Sahyan extended the place of nature in the development of the modern civilization. "Thanks to the perfection of his language and the great significance of his works Hamo Sahyan entered the orbit of poetry, having "contact edges" with both old and modern lyric poets," S. Davtian said.

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