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.