Armenia • Հայաստան (Hayastan)

30.05.1918-02.12.1920: Democratic Republic of Armenia • Հայաստանի Դեմոկրատական Հանրապետություն (Hayastani Demokratakan Hanrapetut'yun)
20.11.1920: Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic • Հայկական Սոցիալիստական Խորհրդային Հանրապետություն (Haykakan Sots'ialistakan Khorhrdayin Hanrapetut'yun) • Социалистическая Советская Республика Армении (Socialističeskaja Sovetskaja Respublika Armenija)
12.03.1922: part of the Transcaucasian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
30.12.1922: T.S.F.S.R. founding component of the Soviet Union
05.12.1936: T.S.F.S.R. dissolved; Armenian S.S.R. becomes a full union republic
23.08.1990: Republic of Armenia • Հայաստանի Հանրապետություն (Hayastani Hanrapetut'yun)
21.09.1991: declaration of independence
02.03.1992: member of United Nations

Area: 29,800 km²
Population: 3,002,594 (2001)
Capital: Երեւան (Yerevan)
Currency: 1919 ռուբլի (rubli, Armenian ruble) → 1923 Soviet ruble (ռուբլի, rubli) = 100 kopecks (կոպեկ, kopek) → 1993 դրամ (dram, AMD, դր.) = 100 լումա (louma)
GDP per capita: 4,270 $ (2005)
Ethnic groups: Armenians 97.9%, Yazidis 1.3%, Russians 0.5%, other (Assyrians, Ukrainians, Kurds, Greeks...) 0.3%
Official language: Armenian

Merchant marine: none
Coastline: none (inland country)
Waterways: Lake Sevan (Sevana lich): 940 km²

President: R'obert K'ocharyan (04.02.1998)
Prime Minister: Tigran Sargisyan (09.04.2008)
Defence Minister: General-gndapet Yuri Grigor Khachaturov (15.04.2008)

Major wars & other armed conflicts

03.1918-11.1920: war against Azerbaijan
12.1918: border conflict with Georgia
09.1920-12.1920: war against Turkey

02.1988-05.1994: "Nagorno-Karabakh War" against Azerbaijan
No regular naval forces - however, some boats were (and are) in use at Lake Sevan. In 1919-1920 years, there was a tiny sailing flotilla:

• Աշոտ Երկատ (Ashot Erkat) - two-mast motor sail ship, armed with one light gun & 2x MGs
• Գեղանուշ (Geghanoush) - one-mast motor sail ship (probably armed with 1-2x MGs)
• another small one-mast sail ship
• few motorboats (?)
• commander: Hovhannes (Ivan Stepanovič) Isakov


Now (probably 1992/93) there are two boats used by Military Police (part of army) and civilian water administration:

 2 proj. 376У "Ярославец"
32/38 t, 21×3.9×1.4 m, 150 hp = 10 kt, unarmed, 6 p. Both based in Geghark'unik'.
 Vazgen Sparapet Վազգեն Սպարապետ 1960s;1980s military police
name unknown civilian


Democratic Republic of Armenia

Chairmen of the National Council (Khorhrdi nakhagah):
30.05.1918-01.08.1918 Avetis Aharonyan
01.08.1918-05.08.1919 Avetik' Isahakyan
Chairman of Parliament (Khorhrdarani nakhagah):
05.08.1919-02.12.1920 Avetis Aharonyan

Prime ministers:
30.05.1918-28.05.1919 Hovhannes Rouben K'achaznuni (Igitkhanyan)
28.05.1919-05.05.1920 Alek'sandr Khatisyan
05.05.1920-25.11.1920 Hamazasp "Hamo" Ohanjanyan
25.11.1920-02.12.1920 Simon Vrats'yan

Ministers of War:
30.05.1918-28.05.1919 Gen. Drastamat "Dro" Kanayan
28.05.1919-10.1920 Rouben Ter-Minasyan
25.11.1920-02.12.1920 Gen. Drastamat "Dro" Kanayan

Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic

Chairman of the Revolutionary Council (Hejap'okhut'yan khorhrdi nakhagah):
29.11.1920-04.12.1920 Avetis (Akop) Nuridzrhanyan
Chairmen of the Military Revolutionary Committee (R'azmakan hejap'okhut'yan komitei nakhagah):
04.12.1920-05.1921 Sargis Kasyan (Ter-Gasparyan)
05.1921-02.02.1922 Alek'sandr Myasnikyan (Aleksandr Fedorovič Mjasnikov)
Chairman of the Central Executive Committee (Kentronakan Gortsadir Komitei nakhagah):
02.02.1922-24.06.1925 Sargis Hambardzumyan

Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars (Zhojovrdakan Komisarneri Khorhrdi nakhagah):
21.05.1921-29.04.1922 Alek'sandr Myasnikyan
29.04.1922-24.06.1925 Sergej Luk'janovič Lukašin (Sargis Srap'onyan)

Republic of Armenia

Chairman of the Supreme Council (Geraguyn khorhrdi nakhagah):
04.08.1990-11.11.1991 Levon Ter-Petrosyan
Presidents (Nakhagah):
11.11.1991-03.02.1998 Levon Ter-Petrosyan
04.02.1998-09.04.2008 R'obert K'ocharyan (acting till 09.04.1998)
09.04.2008- Serzh Azat Sargisyan

Prime ministers (Varchapet):
13.08.1990-22.11.1991 Vazgen Manukyan
22.11.1991-30.07.1992 Gagik Harut'yunyan
30.07.1992-02.02.1993 Khosrov Harut'yunyan
02.02.1993-04.11.1996 Hrant Bakratyan
04.11.1996-20.03.1997 Armen Sargisyan
20.03.1997-10.04.1998 R'obert K'ocharyan
10.04.1998-11.06.1999 Armen Darbinyan
11.06.1999-27.10.1999 Vazgen Sargisyan
29.10.1999-03.11.1999 vacant
03.11.1999-02.05.2000 Aram Sargisyan
02.05.2000-12.05.2000 vacant
12.05.2000-25.03.2007 Andranik Margaryan
26.03.2007-09.04.2008 Serzh Azat Sargisyan
09.04.2008- Tigran Sargisyan

Defence ministers (Pashtpanut'yan nakhararner):
02.1992-20.10.1992Vazgen Sargisyan
20.10.1992-21.08.1993 Vazgen Manukyan
21.08.1993-26.07.1995 Serzh Azat Sargisyan
26.07.1995-15.06.1999 Vazgen Sargisyan
15.06.1999-02.05.2000 General-leytenant Vagharshak Harut'yunyan
02.05.2000-20.05.2000 General-leytenant Mik'ayel Harut'yunyan (acting)
20.05.2000-04.04.2007 Serzh Azat Sargisyan
04.04.2007-14.04.2008 General-gndapet Mik'ayel Harut'yunyan
14.04.2008- General-gndapet Seyran Ohanyan

Chiefs of the General Staff (Glchavor Shtabi peter):
10.08.1992-08.11.1993 General-leytenant Norat Ter-Grigoryan
08.11.1993-21.07.1994 General-leytenant Hrachya Andreasyan
22.07.1994-04.04.2007 General-gndapet Mik'ayel Harut'yunyan
05.04.2007-14.04.2008 General-gndapet Seyran Ohanyan
15.04.2008- General-gndapet Yuri Grigor Khachaturov
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