Background
He was born in the village Nij, Azerbaijan and was Udi by ethnicity.
He was born in the village Nij, Azerbaijan and was Udi by ethnicity.
He worked at the Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic. His thesis defense was held at the Philological Faculty of Tbilisi State University. The head of the research project was Jeyranishvili (Udi from Zinobiani). Of particular note is his release in 1974 of the "Udi-Azerbaijani-Russian Dictionary", which remains today the only large body of vocabulary of both modern Udi languages, Nij and Vartashen dialects.
He is also author of many articles on Udi language.
He is Buried in the village Nij.
In 1965 he defended his thesis on the phonetic and morphological features of the Udi "Nij" dialect. In 1973 Gukasyan became a Doctor of Philology, defended at the Institute of Linguistics of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic Academy of Sciences study on "The relationship of Azeri and Udi languages".