The
Provisional Military Dictatorship of Mughan was a British-controlled anti-communist short-lived state founded in the
Lankaran regionLankaran is a rayon of Azerbaijan. It surrounds but does not include the city of Lankaran, which is technically a separate administrative region.- History :...
on August 1, 1918. The Mughan government did not support independence of
AzerbaijanAzerbaijan , formally the Republic of Azerbaijan , is a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia to the west, and Iran to the south...
and it was led by white Russian colonel V.T. Sukhorukov who acted under the protection of the British occupation of
BakuBaku , sometimes known as Baqy, Baky, Baki or Bakou, is the capital, the largest city, and the largest port of Azerbaijan and all the Caucasus. Located on the southern shore of the Absheron Peninsula, the city consists of two principal parts: the downtown and the old Inner City...
. Mughan declared to be an autonomous part of "single and indivisible Russia." On December 1918, it was reorganized as
Mughan Territorial Administration.
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The
Provisional Military Dictatorship of Mughan was a British-controlled anti-communist short-lived state founded in the
Lankaran regionLankaran is a rayon of Azerbaijan. It surrounds but does not include the city of Lankaran, which is technically a separate administrative region.- History :...
on August 1, 1918. The Mughan government did not support independence of
AzerbaijanAzerbaijan , formally the Republic of Azerbaijan , is a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia to the west, and Iran to the south...
and it was led by white Russian colonel V.T. Sukhorukov who acted under the protection of the British occupation of
BakuBaku , sometimes known as Baqy, Baky, Baki or Bakou, is the capital, the largest city, and the largest port of Azerbaijan and all the Caucasus. Located on the southern shore of the Absheron Peninsula, the city consists of two principal parts: the downtown and the old Inner City...
. Mughan declared to be an autonomous part of "single and indivisible Russia." On December 1918, it was reorganized as
Mughan Territorial Administration. On April 25, 1919, a violent protest organized by
talyshTalysh are an Iranian people who speak the Talysh language, one of the Northwestern Iranian languages. It is spoken in the northern regions of the Iranian provinces of Gilan and Ardabil and the southern parts of the Republic of Azerbaijan...
workers of pro-
BolshevikThe Bolsheviks, originally also Bolshevists were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903...
orientation exploded in
LankaranLankaran is a city in Azerbaijan, on the coast of the Caspian Sea, near the southern border with Iran. Has a population of 50,244 , at least half of which are Talysh. It is next to, but independent of Lankaran rayon...
and deposed the Mughan Territorial Administration. On May 15, the Extraordinary Congress of the "Councils of Workers' and Peasants' Deputies" of Lankaran district proclaimed the
Mughan Soviet RepublicThe Mughan Soviet Republic was a short-lived pro-Bolshevik state that existed in present-day southeastern Azerbaijan from March to June 1919. It was founded in opposition to the Musavatist Azerbaijani Government in Baku.-See also:...
.