The outstanding Soviet historian and Caucasus expert Joseph Abgarovich Orbeli (1887-1968) wrote: It is impossible to correctly perceive the optimism and eternal desire for self-affirmation inherent in the Armenian people, without knowing the origins of this worldview, which accompanied the Armenians at all times of their history, helped to fight against the vicissitudes of fate, persistently forge your happiness. Therefore, the book of Armenian fables will become a reference book for everyone who wants to touch and become familiar with the origins of the Armenian national culture. Armenian fables fascinated I. Orbeli even in his student years, and having become a venerable scientist, he devoted a significant place to them in his work, rewriting folk fables, adapting and translating them into Russian. Read them! Surprisingly fresh, wise and bright scraps of folk poetry will delight the reader.