The Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic, also known as the Armenian SSR, Soviet Armenia, or simply Armenia, was one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union, located in the Caucasus region of E
Lenin Monument on Yerevan's Lenin Square (today Republic Square)
First Secretary Aghasi Khanjian, a native of Van, was killed in 1936 by Lavrentiy Beria
Great Patriotic War memorial near Kapan
In a speech in Yerevan in 1954, Anastas Mikoyan called for the rehabilitation of Yeghishe Charents, beginning the Khrushchev Thaw in Soviet Armenia.
Armenian victims of the Great Purge included Armenian intellectuals, writers, artists, Bolshevik and later Soviet statesmen, military commanders, and religious figures. Orchestrated by Joseph Stalin,
The Statue of Stalin in Yerevan, removed in 1962 and replaced by Mother Armenia in 1967.
Vaganian 1925o
Sargis Kasyan portrait