ABSTRACT
Like other republican nations of the Soviet Union, the Armenians have a bifurcated sociocultural center. 1 Armenia and Nagorniy Karabakh are the main ethnic territory of Armenians in the Soviet Union. Yerevan is the capital of Armenia. However, Moscow shnes political, social, and cultural centrality with Yerevan. The Armenians’ situation in this respect is quite different from that of the Russians whose capital city, Moscow 1 , is the center of their nation and of Russian cultural life as well as the capital of the Soviet Union. In ethnic terms, Moscow is a Russian city. As the capital of a huge centralized state, Moscow offers attractive economic and cultural opportunities to Armenians who must, however, relocate in order to obtain them. 3
