TheArmenie Soviet Socialist Republic (Armenie:ՀայկականՍովետականՍոցիալիստականՀանրապետությունHaykakan Sovetakan Soc’ialistakan Hanrapetut’yun;Roushie:Армя́нская Сове́тская Социалисти́ческая Респу́бликаArmjanskaja Sovetskaja Sotsialističeskaja Respublika), kent as theArmenie SSR orSoviet Armenie an aw, wis ane of the fifteenrepublics that made up theSoviet Union in Dizember 1922. It wis establisht in Dizember 1920, when the Soviets teuk ower control o the short-livitDemocratic Republic o Armenie an lastit till 1991. It is sometimes cried the Seicont Republic o Armenie, follaein the Democratic Republic o Armenie's demise (which wis kent as the First Republic o Armenie an aw).
As pairt o the Soviet Union, the Armenie SSR transformit frae a lairgely agricultural hinterland tae an important industrial production center. On 23 August 1990, it wis renamit the Republic o Armenie, but remained in theSoviet Union till its offeecialproclamation o unthirldom on 21 September 1991. Efter thedissolution o the Soviet Union, the state o the post-Union Republic o Armenie existit till the adoption o the newconstitution in 1995.
