We present an uniform construction of the solution to the Yang-Baxter equation with the symmetry algebra sℓ(2) and its deformations: the q-deformation and the elliptic deformation or Sklyanin algebra. The R-operator acting in the tensor product of two representations of the symmetry algebra with arbitrary spins ℓ 1 and ℓ 2 is built in terms of products of three basic operators S 1 , S 2 , S 3 which are constructed explicitly. They have the simple meaning of representing elementary permutations of the symmetric group S 4 , the permutation group of the four parameters entering the RLL-relation.1