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Many legislative reforms including the ratification of the new Azerbaijan SSR Constitution of 1977 took place. After the demands of the Armenian SSR to transfer the NKAO region of Azerbaijan to Armenia, the parliament was largely passive and indifferent. On October 18, 1991 the Supreme Soviet passed a resolution confirming the restoration of ...
Rank Name Photo Birth date Birthplace Death date Death place Political commissar: Jabir Aliyev: 1902 1938 Baku, Azerbaijan SSR, USSR: Warrant officer: Heydar Vazirov: 1893 Babek District, Erivan Governorate, Russian Empire
After the approval of the Constitution of Azerbaijan SSR by the All-Azerbaijan Congress of Soviets in 1921, Azerbaijan Revolutionary Committee was revoked and Central Executive Committee was selected as a supreme legislative body. [9] According to the Constitution Azerbaijan SSR in 1937, the legislative body switched to a new phase.
The Sumgait pogrom [note 1] was a pogrom that targeted the Armenian population of the lakeside town of Sumgait in the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic in late February 1988. The pogrom took place during the early stages of the Karabakh movement .
Black January (Azerbaijani: Qara Yanvar), also known as Black Saturday or the January Massacre, was a violent crackdown on Azerbaijani nationalism and anti-Soviet sentiment in Baku on 19–20 January 1990, as part of a state of emergency during the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
One instance occurred in February 1988, when the government in Nagorno-Karabakh, a predominantly ethnic Armenian region in the Azerbaijan SSR, passed a resolution calling for unification with the Armenian SSR. Violence against local Azerbaijanis was reported on Soviet television, provoking massacres of Armenians in the Azerbaijani city of Sumgait.
26 Commissars Memorial was a symbol of Azerbaijan SSR. In 1920, the remains of the commissars were exhumed and reburied as Soviet martyrs in a central square in Baku. [ 22 ] They remained their until 2009 when Azerbaijani authorities began demolishing the city's 26 Commissars Memorial . [ 23 ]
According to official estimates of Azerbaijan 147 civilians were killed, 800 people were injured and five people went missing. In a resolution of 22 January 1990, the Supreme Soviet of Azerbaijan SSR declared that the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of 19 January, used to impose emergency rule in Baku and military ...