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Martiros Saryan
Martiros Saryan was an Armenian painter.He was born into an Armenian family in Nor Nakhijevan . In 1895, aged 15, he completed the Nakhichevan school and from 1897 to 1904 studied at the Moscow School of Arts, including in the workshops of Valentin Serov and Konstantin Korovin...
, a famous Armenian painter and was adopted in 1937 by the government of the Armenian SSR
Armenian SSR
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The coat of arms prominently features Mount Ararat
Mount Ararat
Mount Ararat is a snow-capped, dormant volcanic cone in Turkey. It has two peaks: Greater Ararat and Lesser Ararat .The Ararat massif is about in diameter...
, regarded as the national symbol of the Armenia. The grapes shown immediately beneath Ararat represent the traditional Biblical account of the first vineyard that Noah
Noah
Noah was, according to the Hebrew Bible, the tenth and last of the antediluvian Patriarchs. The biblical story of Noah is contained in chapters 6–9 of the book of Genesis, where he saves his family and representatives of all animals from the flood by constructing an ark...
planted upon his descent from his ark
Noah's Ark
Noah's Ark is a vessel appearing in the Book of Genesis and the Quran . These narratives describe the construction of the ark by Noah at God's command to save himself, his family, and the world's animals from the worldwide deluge of the Great Flood.In the narrative of the ark, God sees the...
as a sign of rebirth of humanity
Human Race
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. The inner rim on the sides of the grapes includes wheat, symbolic of the land and natural resources of Armenia. Above Mount Ararat is the hammer and sickle
Hammer and sickle
The hammer and sickle is a part of communist symbolism and its usage indicates an association with Communism, a Communist party, or a Communist state. It features a hammer and a sickle overlapping each other. The two tools are symbols of the industrial proletariat and the peasantry; placing them...
with the red star
Red star
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behind it. Printed on the outer rim are the words "Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic" in Armenian
Armenian language
The Armenian language is an Indo-European language spoken by the Armenian people. It is the official language of the Republic of Armenia as well as in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The language is also widely spoken by Armenian communities in the Armenian diaspora...
(Հայկական Սովետական Սոցիալիստական Հանրապետություն) while in the center outer rim is the motto "Workers of the world, unite!
Workers of the world, unite!
The political slogan Workers of the world, unite! is one of the most famous rallying cries of communism, found in The Communist Manifesto , by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels...
" in both Armenian (Պրոլետարներ բոլոր երկրների, միացե'ք) and Russian (Пролетарии всех стран, соединяйтесь!).
The inclusion of Mount Ararat brought objections from Turkey
Turkey
Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...
because the mountain is part of its territory. The Kremlin
Moscow Kremlin
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retorted that although the Turkish symbol was the crescent
Crescent
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, surely it did not mean that they laid claim to the moon.
The emblem was changed in 1992 to the present coat of arms of Armenia
Coat of arms of Armenia
The national coat of arms of Armenia consists of an eagle and a lion supporting a shield. The coat of arms combines new and old symbols...
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