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.
Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan was a Soviet statesman, diplomat, and Bolshevik revolutionary who served as the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, the head of state of the Soviet Union. As a m
Sanahin, Mikoyan's native village, in the Debed River valley of Armenia
1925 Soviet poster: "We will never forget the 26 murdered by English imperialists. 1918, September 20."
The Caucasus trio in 1925. From left to right: Mikoyan, Joseph Stalin and Sergo Ordzhonikidze