During the years of Soviet rule, a broad healthcare system was created in Armenia, providing the population of the republic with all types of medical care. Socio-economic transformations have put an end to epidemic diseases. Compared to 1913, the number of hospital beds has increased by more than 100 times. In 1980, there were 171 hospital facilities with 26 thousand hospital beds. In 1980, 11.1 thousand doctors worked in the republic (in 1913 there were only 73 doctors), the number of secondary medical personnel was 26.6 thousand people. New hospital facilities, dispensaries, polyclinics have been put into operation, and the network of resorts and rest homes has expanded.

Hundreds of thousands of people were treated and rested annually in 89 sanatoriums, rest homes, boarding houses and tourist bases. The resorts of Arzli, Jermuk, Dilijan, Sevan, etc. are known far beyond the borders of the republic.

Sports were widely developed. By the beginning of 1981, there were 24 stadiums in the republic. 89 football fields and 979 volleyball, basketball and tennis courts. The total number of physical education students is 720 thousand people. Since 1970, the republican stadium "Hrazdan" has been operating, accommodating up to 75 thousand spectators.

The center of the development of scientific thought in the republic was the Academy of Sciences of the Armenian SSR, founded in 1943. As part of the Academy in 1980, it worked

88 academicians and corresponding members. There were hundreds of scientific institutions of various profiles in the republic. In Soviet Armenia, such problems of modern science as astrophysics, radio engineering, electronics, cybernetics, biochemistry and physiology, biophysics, bionics, etc. were developed. The Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory was world famous.

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