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On 5 February 1991, Azerbaijan SSR was renamed the Republic of Azerbaijan according to the Decision No.16-XII of Supreme Soviet of Azerbaijan approving the Decree of the President of Azerbaijan SSR dated 29 November 1990, [3] remained in the USSR for the period before the declaration of independence in October 1991.
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 ...
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 .
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
Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic — 20th century communist republic of the Soviet Union in Azerbaijan. Subcategories. This category has the following 12 ...
As a result of the invasion, the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic was dissolved, and the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic was established. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] During 1919–1920, Azerbaijan was grappling with a severe political and socio-economic crisis, and the internal political situation was highly volatile.
The Azerbaijan SSR supplied much of the Soviet Union's gas and oil during World War II, and was a strategically important region. [191] Although the June 1941 German invasion of the Soviet Union reached the Greater Caucasus in July 1942, the Germans did not invade Azerbaijan. [ 192 ]
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 ]