| Hakob Hakobian | |
| Birth Date: | 1866 5, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Elisavetpol, Tiflis Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Death Place: | Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Occupation: | poet |
| Nationality: | Armenian |
Hakob Mnatsakani Hakobian (Armenian: Հակոբ Մնացականի Հակոբյան; often transliterated from Russian as Akop Akopian; 29 May 1866 – 13 November 1937) was a Soviet Armenian poet. He was regarded as the founder of Armenian proletarian poetry. Awarded with the titles People's Poet of Armenia and People's Poet of Georgia.[1] He was considered the "Armenian Maxim Gorky" by the Bolshevik press.[2]
Hakobian published his first book in 1899. He authored revolutionary poems such as "One More Cut" (1905), "Revolution" (1905), "Died but didn't disappear" (1906), "Red waves" (1911), and "Shir-Kanal" (1924). Hakobian was appointed as the Bank's commissar of Soviet Georgia, he was a member of the government of Transcaucasian Federation.