the prosecutor general's office of the first republic of armenia began to operate on 6 december 1918, when the ruling council adopted the law "on the application of the laws of the former russian empire on the territory of armenia”. in december 1922, during a period when the soviet union began to created its own government institutions and legal system, a prosecutor’s office in the ussr supreme court, with a subdivision of that office being created in the transcaucasian socialist federative soviet republic, which was one of the predecessors to what is now armenia. on 20 july 1933, the office of public procurator of the ussr was founded by a joint decision of the central executive committee of the soviet union and the council of people's commissars, which resulted in the creation of republican affiliate units in soviet republics. on 27 february 1959, a board was established in the soviet prosecutor’s office headed by the chief prosecutor of the armenian ssr. on 5 july 1995, the first constitution of armenia in close to 80 years was adopted. as a result, an independent  military prosecutor's office was established on 5 october of that year. the agency became a full member of the coordinating council of prosecutors general of commonwealth of independent states in 1999 and became a member of the international association of prosecutors and the conference of prosecutors general of europe in 2005.