Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia

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 Nagorno-Karabakh War, the Armenian Question and the Armenian diaspora.

Series

Name	Year	Volumes
Armenian Concise Encyclopedia	1990–2003	4
A children's encyclopedia Voskeporik (Golden Belly)	1993–1999	3
The Armenian Question	1996	1
Armenian Diaspora Organisations	2001	1
The Armenian Church. Hierarchical Sees and Dioceses	2001	1
Christian Armenia Encyclopedia	2002	1
The War of Karabakh. 1988–1994	2005	1
Family Encyclopedia Series	1997–	3

Soviet Armenian Encyclopedia

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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.

Volume	Year	Names	Articles	Pages	Images	Maps	Number of copies
1	1974	Ա-ԱՐԳԻՆԱ	3,442	720	1,294	75	100,000
2	1976	ԱՐԳԻՇՏԻ-ԳԵՂԵՐՎԱՆ	3,503	720	1,798	75	100,000
3	1977	ԳԵՂԵՑԻԿԸ-ԶՈՒՐԱԲՅԱՆ	3,509	720	1,726	53	100,000
4	1978	Է-ԽԱՂԽԱՂ	3,451	720	1,228	53	100,000
5	1979	ԽԱՂՈՂ-ԿՈՒԼԻՍՆԵՐ	3,694	720	1,326	68	100,000
6	1980	ԿՈՒԼԶՈՐ-ՁՈՒԼՈՒԿ	3,108	720	1,097	64	100,000
7	1981	ՁՈՒԼՈՒՄ-ՄՈՆՈՊԽՈՆՔ	3,250	720	1,436	46	100,000
8	1982	ՄՈՆՈՊՈԼԻԱ-ՉԵՉԵՐԵԿ	3,145	720	1,274	70	100,000
9	1983	ՉԵՉՔԱՐ-ՌՍՏԱԿԵՍ	3,185	720	1,046	60	100,000
10	1984	ՌՍՏԱՄ-ՍՍՀՄ	2,009	736	1,065	61	100,000
11	1985	ՍՈՎԵՏԱԿԱՆ-ՏԻԵԶԵՐՔ	2,970	720	958	67	100,000
12	1986	ՏԻԵՊՈԼՈ-ՖՈՒՔՍԻՆ	3,501	752	1,015	96	100,000
TOTAL (1–12)	1974–1986	Ա-ՖՈւՔՍԻՆ	36,767	8,688	15,263	858	1,200,000
13	1987	ՍՈՎԵՏԱԿԱՆ ՀԱՅԱՍՏԱՆ

See also

• Great Soviet Encyclopedia