Armenian Encyclopedia Publishing House

Armenian Encyclopedia Publishing House («Հայկական հանրագիտարան» հրատարակչություն «Haykakan hanragitaran» hratarakch'ut'yun), formerly the main editorial office of the Armenian Encyclopedia (Հայկական հանրագիտարանի գլխավոր խմբագրություն Haykakan hanragitarani glkhavor khmbagrut'yun) 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? What is it? (Ո՞վ է, Ի՞նչ է) 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.

Heads

 * Viktor Hambardzumyan (1967—1974)
 * Abel Simonyan (1974—1979)
 * Makich Arzumanyan (1979—1988)
 * Konstantin Khudaverdyan (1988—1999)
 * Hovhannes Aivazyan (since 1999)

Creative Commons licensing
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:


 * 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)