UDC

94(47).084.3:94(479)24

Authors

Aydyn N. Gadzhiev
The Northern Institute of Business; ul. Suvorova 2, Arkhangelsk, 163001, Russian Federation;
e-mail: west011@bk.ru
Valeriy K. Belov
The Northern Institute of Business; ul. Suvorova 2, Arkhangelsk, 163001, Russian Federation;
e-mail: west011@bk.ru

Abstract

This article explores the struggle for the Nakhichevan and Kars Regions after the establishment of the Soviet rule in Azerbaijan in April 1920. On 8 May, 1920, the People’s Commissariat of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic made an appeal to the Armenian government concerning the events in southwestern Caucasus. It pointed out the alarming situation in Nakhichevan, Sharur-Daralagez, Novo- Bayazet, and Echmiadzin counties, where the armed Armenian-Muslim conflict persisted, resulting in a massacre which the leaders of Dashnaktsutyun (Armenian Revolutionary Party) were accountable for. On 10 May, 1920, the Azerbaijani Revolutionary Committee urged the Armenian government to start negotiations about the disputed areas, but the proposal was rejected. The leaders of Soviet Russia, in their turn, launched military operations in Nakhichevan: on 28 July, 1920, Soviet Russia established its rule in the region, which, however, was first cleared from all Armenian troops as late as in December. Having entered the sphere of influence of a new political power, Nakhichevan became part of a geopolitical space based on new ideology. At the same time, the contradictions between the Transcaucasian Soviet republics of Armenia and Georgia, on the one hand, and Turkey, on the other, forced Soviet Russia to promote an agreement between these parties. On 13 October, 1921, they signed the Treaty of Kars, mediated by Soviet Russia. According to the treaty, the Nakhichevan Region became an autonomous territory within Soviet Azerbaijan.

Keywords

Azerbaijan SSR, Nakhichevan, Kars Region, Soviet power in Transcaucasia, Treaty of Alexandropol (1920), Treaty of Kars (1921)

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