Armenian Encyclopedia Publishing House
The Armenian Encyclopedia Publishing House, formerly the main editorial office of the Armenian Encyclopedia is a publishing house in Yerevan that was established in 1967 and published the Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia in 1974–1986 and other encyclopedias in Armenian language later. It was founded as a department of the Institute of History of the Armenian Academy of Sciences under the presidency of Viktor Hambardzumyan. The AE publishing house also edited a children's encyclopedia, Who is it?
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Armenian Encyclopedia Publishing House

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- 1967
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- Victor Ambartsumian
- Headquarters
- Yerevan
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The Armenian Encyclopedia Publishing House, formerly the main editorial office of the Armenian Encyclopedia is a publishing house in Yerevan that was established in 1967 and published the Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia in 1974–1986 and other encyclopedias in Armenian language later. It was founded as a department of the Institute of History of the Armenian Academy of Sciences under the presidency of Viktor Hambardzumyan. The AE publishing house also edited a children's encyclopedia, Who is it?
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What is it? 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.
• Viktor Hambardzumyan (1967—1974) • Abel Simonyan (1974—1979) • Makich Arzumanyan (1979—1988) • Konstantin Khudaverdyan (1988—1999) • Hovhannes Aivazyan (since 1999)
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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. The following encyclopedias are subject to this contract: • Illustration — The twelve volume set of the Soviet Armenian Encyclopedia and the supplementary volume, Soviet Armenia. • Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, 13 volumes, ch. ed. 1974-1987 • Armenian Concise Encyclopedia, 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)
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• 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
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- 1.Cooperation contract between Armenian Encyclopedia & IT School signed on 30.09.2011 on the Armenian Wikipedia
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