Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic

union republic of the Soviet Union

December 1988 earthquake in Armenian SSR, USSR

square in Yerevan

cultural heritage monument of Armenia

flag used in the Armenian SSR from 1952 till 1990

pogrom that targeted the Armenian population of the seaside town of Sumgait in Soviet Azerbaijan in late February 1988

coat of arms

national anthem

political event

codename for the May 1991 military operation conducted by Soviet Internal Security Forces and OMON units in the Armenian populated regions of Western Azerbaijan in the Lesser Caucasus mountains, the Shusha, Martakert and Hadrut regions

Yerevan protests

pogrom in Kirovabad, formerly Ganja

military unit

forced resettlement and ethnic cleansing of Azerbaijanis from Armenia

cultural heritage monument of Armenia

1921 uprising in Armenia

1922–24 Soviet reform of the Armenian orthography

soviet military area

pogrom directed against the ethnic Azerbaijani inhabitants in Armenia

Soviet deportation

expulsion of Armenians from Shusha and Azerbaijanis from Stepanakert