Supreme Council of Armenia

The Supreme Soviet of the Armenian SSR, later renamed as the Supreme Council of the Republic of Armenia, was the Supreme Council of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic and later the independent Republic of Armenia. It was superseded by the National Assembly in 1995 when Armenia adopted the Armenian Constitution.

The Supreme Council was preceded by the Armenian National Council (1917–1918) and then a Khorhurd (legislature), before Armenia became part of the Soviet Union in 1920.

Convocations

• 1st convocation (1938–1946)
• 2nd convocation (1947–1950)
• 3rd convocation (1951–1954)
• 4th convocation (1955–1959)
• 5th convocation (1959–1962)
• 6th convocation (1963–1966)
• 7th convocation (1967–1970)
• 8th convocation (1971–1974)
• 9th convocation (1975–1979)
• 10th convocation (1980–1984)
• 11th convocation (1985–1989)
• 12th convocation (1990–1995)

Chairperson of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Armenian SSR

• Matsak Papyan (1938–1954)
• Shmavon Arushanyan (1954–1963)
• Nagush Arutyunyan (1963–1975)
• Babken Sarkisov (1975–1985)
• Grant Voskanyan (1985–1990)

Notable members

Members included:

• Levon Ter-Petrosyan, President of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Armenia at the time of nation's independence in 1990
• Serzh Sargsyan
• Karapet Rubinyan
• Ara Sahakian, secretary in 1990 when he signed the Declaration of Independence of Armenia with president Ter-Petrosyan
• Samand Siabandov

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