Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia

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Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia

Set of all Armenian Soviet Encyclopedias published between 1974-1986
Country	Armenian SSR, USSR
Language	Armenian
Subject	General
Genre	Reference encyclopaedia

The Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia (Armenian: Հայկական սովետական հանրագիտարան, Haykakan sovetakan hanragitaran; ASE) publishing house was established in 1967 as a department of the Institute of History of the Armenian Academy of Sciences under the presidency of Viktor Hambardzumyan (1908–1996), co-edited by Abel Simonyan (1922–1994) and Makich Arzumanyan (1919–1988). In 1988–1999 the editor-in-chief was Konstantin Khudaverdyan (1929–1999) and since 1999 Hovhannes Aivazyan. It produced the Soviet Armenian Encyclopedia (also rendered Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia; Armenian: Հայկական Սովետական Հանրագիտարան, Haykakan sovetakan hanragitaran, Russian: Армя́нская сове́тская энциклопе́дия, Armyanskaya sovetskaya entsiklopediya АСЭ) from 1974–1986.

The AE publishing house also edited a children's encyclopedia, Who is it? What is it? (Armenian: Ո՞վ է, Ի՞նչ է) in 4 volumes (1984–87), the Russian-Armenian Polytechnical Dictionary (1988) and a Traveler's Encyclopedia (1990). Since Armenian independence (1991) publications include titles on topics of such current-day issues such as the first Nagorno-Karabakh War, the Armenian Question and the Armenian diaspora.

Creative Commons licensing[]

On 30 September 2011, the owner of "Armenian Encyclopedia" Publishing House SNCO and "School of Information Technologies" Foundation signed a cooperation agreement, which allowed the content of a number of Armenian encyclopedias to be in open circulation on the basis of Creative Commons BY-SA 3.0 or higher licenses used in Wikimedia projects.^[1] The following encyclopedias are subject to this contract:

• Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, 13 volumes, ch. ed. 1974-1987
•  [ha], 4 volumes, chapter editor, 1990-2003
• Armenian Question, 1 volume, head of the Armenian Encyclopedia ed. 1996
• Nature of Armenia, Armenian Encyclopedia ed. 2006
• Who is who? Armenian biographical encyclopedia, 2 volumes, Armenian Encyclopedia ed. 2005-2007
• Karabakh Liberation War 1988-1994 encyclopedia, Armenian Encyclopedia ed. 2004
• Great School Encyclopedia, 4 volumes, Armenian Encyclopedia ed. 2008-2010
• Armenian Diaspora Encyclopedia, 1 volume, Armenian Encyclopedia ed. 2003
• Armenian Diaspora Encyclopedia 2003 (djvu, Wikisource)
• Christian Armenia Encyclopedia, 1 volume, Chapter of the Armenian Encyclopedia. ed. 2002
• Christian Armenia Encyclopedia 2002 (djvu, Wikisource)

Series[]

Soviet Armenian Encyclopedia[]

The twelve volume set of the Soviet Armenian Encyclopedia and the supplementary volume, Soviet Armenia.

The first volume of the Soviet Armenian Encyclopedia (SAE) appeared in 1974, and the first edition in 13 volumes was complete by 1987. The SAE includes 38,767 articles, 15,263 images and 858 maps and over 100,000 copies have been printed.

See also[]

• Great Soviet Encyclopedia

References[]