State · 1920 – 1991
Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic
A state of 1920 – 1991 — 71 years in the Middle East and North Africa. It replaced Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic and followed Socialist Soviet Republic of Armenia. It was replaced by Armenia. The atlas records 17 things within it — people 17. Its line of rulers holds 20 people. Its own article says it was replaced.
For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.
- Stood
- 71 years
- 1920 – 1991
- Rulers
- 20
- the First Secretary of the Armenian Communist Party
- Within it
- 17
- recorded rows
- Symbols
- 7
- on record, with years
Where it sits in time
Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.
Before and after
The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.
Before it
- Socialist Soviet Republic of Armenia · follows
- Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic · replaces · 1922 – 1936
After it
- Armenia · replaced by · 1991 – present
How it ended, as its article says
Replaced. Read from the article's section “lead” by its grammar; the claim is only that the article says so.
It became part of the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic (TSFSR) along with neighboring Georgia and Azerbaijan, which comprised one of the four founding republics of the Soviet Union.
One sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rulers
The line of First Secretary of the Armenian Communist Party.
| Ruler | Reign | Length | How it ended · source | To the ruler before |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gevorg Alikhanyan | 1920 – 1921 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Ashot Hovhannisian | 1922 – 1927 | 5 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Haykaz Kostanyan | 1928 – 1930 | 2 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Aghasi Khanjian | 1930 – 1936 | 6 years | died by suicideWikidata's manner of death | |
| Petik Torosyan | 1933 – 1936 | 3 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Amatuni Amatuni | 1936 – 1937 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Armenak Hovsepyan | 1936 – 1937 | 1 year | died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone | |
| Rza Valibeyov | 1937 – 1937 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Grigory Arutinov | 1937 – 1953 | 16 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Safar Alimammadov | 1938 – 1940 | 2 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Kacik Hakobyan | 1941 – 1941 | under a year | ending not on record | |
| Aghasi Sargsyan | 1943 – 1946 | 3 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Suren Tovmasyan | 1953 – 1960 | 7 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Yakov Zarobyan | 1960 – 1966 | 6 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Anton Kochinyan | 1966 – 1974 | 8 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Karen Demirchyan | 1974 – 1988 | 14 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Suren Arutyunyan | 1988 – 1990 | 2 years | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Vladimir Movsisyan | 1990 – 1990 | under a year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Stepan Pogosyan | 1990 – 1991 | 1 year | left office aliveread off the dates alone | |
| Aram G. Sargsyan | 1991 – 1991 | under a year | ending not on record |
20 rulers, 20 with terms dated as terms, covering 1920 – 1991. Median reign 2 years. 3 of 19 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. The violent-handover count is withheld: power changed hands so often that any rising falls beside one (exposure 0.90, limit 0.6). A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.
Heads of government
The line of Prime Minister of Armenia, drawn and never measured: a cabinet is not a reign.
| Hamo Ohanjanyan | 1920 – 1920 |
| Simon Vratsian | 1920 – 1920 |
| Sarkis Hambarcumian | 1925 – 1928 |
| Abraham Guloyan | 1935 – 1937 |
| Sarkis Hambarcumian | 1937 – 1937 |
| Vazgen Manukyan | 1990 – 1991 |
Flags and arms, in order
Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.
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flag, to 1922Flag of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic (1922) · CC BY-SA 2.5 · Vectorization by Pacha Tchernof from The album of the RSFSR glags and foregn countires Fl… .png/120px-Flag_of_the_Armenian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_(1922-1937).png)
flag, 1922 – 1937Flag of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic (1922-1937) · CC0 .svg/120px-Flag_of_the_Armenian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_(1937%E2%80%931940).svg.png)
flag, 1937 – 1940Flag of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic (1937–1940) · Public domain %2C_Emblem_of_Armenia_(1990%E2%80%931992).svg/120px-Emblem_of_the_Armenian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_(1937%E2%80%931990)%2C_Emblem_of_Armenia_(1990%E2%80%931992).svg.png)
coat of arms, from 1937Emblem of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic (1937–1990), Emblem of Armenia (1990–1992) · Public domain .svg/120px-Flag_of_the_Armenian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_(1940%E2%80%931952).svg.png)
flag, 1940 – 1952Flag of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic (1940–1952) · Public domain .svg/120px-Flag_of_the_Armenian_Soviet_Socialist_Republic_(1952%E2%80%931990).svg.png)
flag, 1952 – 1990Flag of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic (1952–1990) · Public domain 
flag, from 1990Flag of Armenia · Public domain
What happened within it, by century
Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.
1900 – 199914 rows
- Karen Demirchyan · ruler · 1932 – 1999
- Aghasi Khanjian · ruler · 1901 – 1936
- Anton Kochinyan · ruler · 1913 – 1990
- Aram G. Sargsyan · ruler · 1949 – present
- Grigory Arutinov · ruler · 1900 – 1957
- Vladimir Movsisyan · ruler · 1933 – 2014
- Movses Gorgisyan · politician · 1961 – 1990
- Stepan Pogosyan · ruler · 1932 – 2012
and 6 more in the atlas.
Among all states
Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.
- How long it stood71 years
stood longer than 40% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
- Wars recorded per centurynone
had more wars on record per century than 44% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
- How long a reign lasted, at the median2 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 5% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
- Rulers on record20
has more rulers on record than 91% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.
What led to it, and what came of it
The investigation's own picture: 3 causes the record names and 2 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.
Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.
Theories that apply to its ending
Of 3 theories of why states fall, 1 has every condition present at this ending; each is applied by its own logic, condition by condition, and whether its authors named this case is a footnote.
Demographic-structural breakdown
Goldstone 1991 · Turchin & Nefedov 2009
Applies by its own logic: 2 of its 3 conditions held here (it needs 2), and this is the kind of outcome it predicts — unrest, adverse regime change or the state's ending.
- overlapping reigns — rival claimants — within 20 y, or 3 or more changes of ruler within 20 y, or 2 or more reigns of two years or less within 20 y, or a monarch deposed or killed within 20 y — handovers 5; shortReigns 3
- a war the state is fighting, still under way, or a war the state fought, ended within 10 y — warOngoing
Open in the atlas
- On the timeline, 1910 – 2001, with everything that stood beside it.
- On the map in 1956, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
- Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.
Wikidata Q132856 (CC0) · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · one sentence of the English Wikipedia article, CC BY-SA 4.0 · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.