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See also:	Other events of 1988 List of years in Armenia

The following lists events that happened during 1988 in Armenia.

Incumbents

• Prime Minister: Fadey Sargsyan

Events

February

• February 20 – The Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast votes to secede from the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic and join the Armenian SSR, triggering the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.

March

• March 9 – Gorbachev meets with the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan Karen Demirchyan and Kamran Baghirov in Moscow to discuss the public demands of unification of Armenia and Karabakh.

November

• November 20 – Soviet Armenian Supreme Council recognizes the Armenian genocide.

December

• December 7 – The 6.8 M_s Armenian earthquake leaves 25,000–50,000 dead and 31,000–130,000 injured.

Births

• June 2 – Rima Pipoyan, Armenian choreographer, director, dancer and dance teacher.

References

1. Verluise 1995, p. 89.
2. Verluise 1995, p. 97.
3. "Новая Стезя".

Bibliography

• Verluise, Pierre (1995). Armenia in Crisis: The 1988 Earthquake. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. ISBN 9780814325278.

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