Soviet Armenian Encyclopedia

The ''Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia'' ( hy, 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''; '' hy, Հայկական Սովետական Հանրագիտարան'', ', ''russian: Армя́нская сове́тская энциклопе́дия'', ' ) from 1974–1986.

The AE publishing house also edited a children's encyclopedia, ''Who is it? What is it?'' ( hy, italic=yes, 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. Cooperation contract between Armenian Encyclopedia & IT School signed on 30.09.2011 on the Armenian Wikipedia The following encyclopedias are subject to this contract:

*''Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia'', 13 volumes, ch. ed. 1974-1987
*', 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 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

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Publishing companies established in 1967
Armenian literature
Book publishing companies
Armenian-language encyclopedias
Publishing companies of the Soviet Union
1967 establishments in Armenia
Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic
National Soviet encyclopedias
20th-century encyclopedias