Abolqasem Lahouti

Abulqosim Ahmadzoda Lohuti (; 12 October 1887 – 16 March 1957) was an Iranian-Soviet poet and political activist who was active in Iran during the Persian Constitutional Revolution and in Tajikistan in the early Soviet era.

Biography Born on 12 October 1887 in Kermanshah to an Iranian cobbler and religious poet named Mirza Ahmad Elhami, and in his twenties his poems were published in several prestigious publications. he was unable to initiate a coup d'etat against the central government of Iran, so he gave up and moved to USSR where he remained until his final days.

Lohuti is the author of the Anthem of the Tajik Soviet Socialist Republic lyrics. Other works of his include Kaveh the Blacksmith (, 1947), Kremlin (, 1923), The Crown and the Flag (, 1935), among many others. His collection of poetry, in six volumes, was published between 1960 and 1963.

He died on 16 March 1957 at the age of 69 in Moscow.