 The Yezidi movement erupting in Armenia in 1988 appealed to the 3rd All-Armenian Yezidi Assembly convened on 30 September 1989 (the two previous Assemblies occurred at the dawn of the Armenian SSR's history, in 1921 and 1923) to challenge the Government for the official recognition of their identity.As a result, the Yezidis were presented as a separate minority in the USSR population census of 1989.According to this very census, the total count of Yezidis in Armenia was 52,700.