Gor Haykasari Hakobyan was born on March 21, 1992 in the village of Jiliza, Lori region. He studied at Jiliza Secondary School after M. Muradyan with honours, then on a free basis he was admitted to the Vanadzor Pedagogical Institute’s Department of Fine Arts and Drawing, graduating with honours. Gor was a painter by profession. He has many works of art (about 100). The exhibition of painter Gor Hakobyan’s art was posthumously held at the Artists’ Union in 2021. March 12-14, which was Gor’s long-awaited dream and 2022 June 9 in Vanadzor Museum of Fine Arts. From 2012 to 2014, Gor spent his term of service on a voluntary basis in Artsakh, serving excellently.
During the service he painted a miraculous picture on the wall of the Martakert military unit and presented it to the military unit. He used the service protocol 7 times. He returned from the service with the title of “senior”. Without rest, he decided to continue his service, passing to the contract service of the NSS border troops. Prior to the war, he was awarded the Badge of Excellence for Outstanding Service.
He volunteered, took part in the forty-day war in April, and served in Horadiz for a month. During this war he again went to the battlefield, presenting his name in the list of those going to the battlefield. He left for Artsakh, Kovsakan, on October 31. He took part in the battles for Kovsakan. He died on November 8, hours before the ceasefire, when he was hit by an ATS, while saving the life of a comrade-in-arms. He was posthumously awarded the “Combat Service” medal by the President of the Republic of Armenia.
He called once every two days for one second and always said: “Mom dear, do not think, whose dog is the Turk, we will win… “Gor’s motto was. My life to my homeland, my soul to God, my honour to me… He often repeated… and we still have to change the world, we have to make the world colourful…
Excerpts from Gor’s term service notebook. All nations must be patriotic, the small ones more than the big ones. We, more than the others… Half of living is to die with honour. The world, the homeland, freedom, everything is strong. To live and fight for what is worth dying for, only to die only for what is worth living for.
Gor had a talent for painting from a young age. He was only 3 years old when he started painting. He painted where it was possible, with what it was possible. He painted with chalk, pencil, pen, coal, and even grains of sand. Everyone called it a small encyclopaedia. He attended the first grade at a younger age for the sake of a friend. Gor loved Armenian history very much, he was deepening in the folds of Armenian history…
He was drawing the map of his dreams of a free, independent Armenia. Gor’s goals were endless… he dreamed of establishing a garden, which he partially realized, built a house, renovated the half-destroyed church in his native village of Jiliza. He loved all Armenian films. He loved the works of Paruyr Szak, Hamo Sahyan. He was a supporter of Garegin Nzhdeh. Gor was the talented artist of our small village. Gor’s body is buried in the family cemetery of his native village, next to his father.
