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Azerbaijan and Russia compared
Two sourced records set beside each other — the figures each nation publishes, and the events each chronicle records of the other. Compared, never graded.
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- 9
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- 7
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- 2026-08-10
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Entangled histories
7 events in which either nation’s sourced chronicle names the other — including under earlier names of the same state. Each is the same record, with the same sources, as on its own chronicle; nothing here was written for this page.
- 1813
Treaty of Gulistan
Ending the Russo-Persian war of 1804–13, Persia ceded to Russia the eastern Caucasus khanates from Lankaran to Derbent, including Baku, Shirvan, Ganja and Karabakh.
War & Rupture · from the Azerbaijan chronicle · Persian khanates and Russian annexation · Treaty of Golestān (Gulistan), 1813, Azerbaijan: Russian suzerainty and the road to independence
- 1828
Treaty of Turkmenchay
The second Russo-Persian war ended with Turkmenchay, confirming Russian rule and adding Nakhichevan and Yerevan, fixing the Aras-river border that still divides the two Azerbaijans.
War & Rupture · from the Azerbaijan chronicle · Persian khanates and Russian annexation · Treaty of Turkmenchay, 1828, Azerbaijan: Russian suzerainty and the road to independence
- 1920
Azerbaijan SSR established
Following the Red Army's entry into Baku, the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic was formed, becoming a full union republic of the USSR from 1936.
Politics & Power · from the Azerbaijan chronicle · The Azerbaijan SSR · Azerbaijan: Russian suzerainty and the road to independence, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia: Country Studies (ed. Glenn E. Curtis)
- April 1920
Soviet annexation
The Red Army entered Baku in April 1920 against little resistance, ending the democratic republic and bringing Azerbaijan under Soviet rule.
War & Rupture · from the Azerbaijan chronicle · The Baku oil boom and the 1918 republic · Azerbaijan: Russian suzerainty and the road to independence
- 1923
Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous oblast created
The Armenian-majority mountainous region of Nagorno-Karabakh was constituted as an autonomous oblast within Soviet Azerbaijan, freezing a contested status that would later erupt.
Politics & Power · from the Azerbaijan chronicle · The Azerbaijan SSR · Nagorno-Karabakh: conflicts, map and people, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia: Country Studies (ed. Glenn E. Curtis)
- 1988
Karabakh dispute reignites
Under perestroika, Nagorno-Karabakh's Armenian majority demonstrated for transfer to Armenia, triggering intercommunal violence that grew into open conflict as the Soviet Union collapsed.
War & Rupture · from the Azerbaijan chronicle · The Azerbaijan SSR · Nagorno-Karabakh: conflicts, map and people
- 1989
Azerbaijan declares sovereignty
Azerbaijan declared its sovereignty in 1989 as Soviet authority weakened, a first step toward the restoration of independence two years later.
Independence · from the Azerbaijan chronicle · The Azerbaijan SSR · Azerbaijan: Russian suzerainty and the road to independence