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In 1977 on the Academician M. Nersisyan’s initiative in the Institute of History was established the department of the Armenian-Russian historical relations. Although based on the ideological and political situation the department did not officially engaged in the problems of the history of the Armenian Issue and the Armenian Genocide, but in these areas were carried out some works as these issues were among scientific interests of M. Nersisyan. M. Nersisyan headed the department until 1999. After the proclamation of the independence of the Republic of Armenia, in 1992 in the Institute were done some structural changes. There were created new thematic research groups. In the department was created a new thematic group "Armenian Issue, the Armenian Genocide and the Great States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries", the head of which was appointed Doctor S. Stepanyan. Then on the basis of this thematic group was created the department of the history of the Armenian Issue and the Armenian Genocide. From 1999 to 2010 the department was headed by Prof. S. Stepanyan. In 2010 Doctor R. Gasparian was appointed in the head of the department. In 2011 Maruqyan Armen was elected as the head of the department. The research workers of the department have published many scientific works concerning various aspects of the Armenian Issue and the Armenian Genocide.
Under the M. Nersisyan’s edition was published the collection of documents and materials "Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Empire” (in 1966, 1982 in Russian, in 1991 in Armenian), which was the first scientific publication of documents concerning the Armenian genocide. Many articles of M. Nersisyan are also devoted to the Armenian Issue and the Armenian Genocide. In the collection of articles and research "Pages from the New History of the Armenian people" are included the rebellion of Zeithun of 1862 and the materials concerning the massacres of the Armenians. 
Academician Hr. Simonyan published monographs and other works – “Ideology and Policy of the Turkish National Bourgeoisie” (Yerevan, 1986, in Armenian), “In the Ways of the Liberation Struggle” (Yerevan, 2009, in Armenian), “From the History of Turkish-Armenian Relations” (Yerevan, 1991, In Armenian).
R. Gasparyan published the following works - “The Armenian of Cilicia in the Early 20th century” (Yerevan, 1999, in Armenian), “The Massacres of the Armenians (in the nineties of 19th to 1921)” (Yerevan, 2005, in Armenian).
Professor S. Stepanyan published the following works – “Armenia in the Policy of Imperialist Germany (end of 19th and the beginning of 20th centuries)”, (Yerevan, 1975, in Russian), “German Sources on the Armenian genocide. Collector, author of the foreword, notes, and editor S. Stepanyan”, (Yerevan, 1991, in Russian), “Armin Wegner and Ernst Werner on the Armenian Genocide”, (Yerevan, 1996, in Armenian), “Iohannes Lepsius and Armenia”, (Yerevan, 1998, in Armenian), “The First Genocide of the 20th century: the Problem of International Recognition, Overcoming of the Consequences of Genocide and Historical Lessons”, (Yerevan, 2005, in Russian), “The Trial of Talaat Pasha”, (Compiler of the book, with a preface and notes by S. Stepanyan, Yerevan, 2007, in Russian).
Advanced researcher of the Department, Doctor N. Sarukhanyan published the following works – “The Armenian Issue in the Social-Political Thought and Historiography of Pre-Soviet Armenia”, (Yerevan, 1997, in Armenian), “Leo and the Armenian Issue”, (Yerevan, 1998, In Armenian), “Aleksey Djivelegov as a Historian and the Armenian Issue”, (Yerevan, 2008, in Armenian).
Senior researcher of the Department A. Marukyan published the following works – “The Armenian Issue and the Policy of Russia (1915-1917)”, (Yerevan, 2003, in Russian), “Russia and the Armenian Genocide in 1915-1917”, (collection of documents, Yerevan, 2004, In Armenian), “The Problem of the Armenian Genocide in Modern Genocidology”, (Yerevan, 2010, in Russian).
Advanced researcher of the Department V. Poghosyan published the following works – “The Massacres of the Armenians in Cilicia in 1909 by the Assessment of French Historical Scholarship”, (Yerevan, 2009, in Armenian), “Les massacres des arméniens de Marache en 1920” (Yerevan, 2010).
Senior researcher of the Department L. Honvhannisyan published the monograph “The Armenian Issue and the Great States in 1914-1917”, (Yerevan, 2002, in Armenian).
Senior researcher of the Department B. Poghosyan published the following works – “Pro-Armenian Movement in the United Kingdom by Documents (1918-1923)”, (Yerevan, 2002, in Armenian), “The Activities of the Committee Britain-Armenia (1913-1924)”, (Yerevan, 2003, in Armenian), “Pro-Armenian Movement in the United Kingdom by Documents (1914-1923)”, (Yerevan, 2005, in Armenian), “Turkish - American Relations and the Issue of USA Recognition of the Armenian Genocide in 1991-2007”, (Yerevan, 2011, in Armenian).
Senior researcher of the Department H. Boyajyan published the monograph “Poghos Nubar Pasha and the Problem of Reforms in Western Armenia in 1912-1914”, (Yerevan, 2010, in Armenian).
The primary task of the department is making of cadres. The department is also involved in the preparation of volumes III and IV of the multivolume history of Armenia.