Lankaran Uprisings

Lankaran Uprising
Part of Red Army invasion of Azerbaijan
Date July 1920 – February 1922 Location Astara, Lerik, and Lankaran, Azerbaijani SSR, Soviet Union Result Soviet victory
Belligerents
Russian SFSR Azerbaijani SSR	Azerbaijani guerillas
Commanders and leaders
Mikhail Levandovsky Matvei Vasilenko Anatoli Gekker	Yusuf Cemal Bey Najafgulu Khan Shahveran Ahmed Khan Atakhan Rashid Khan
Units involved
Red Army 11th Army (until 1921) Naval Forces
Strength
At least 3 regiments 1 cruiser ship 2 destroyer ships 5 transport ships	At least 10 detachments
Casualties and losses
At least 196 killed At least 153 wounded	Unknown

The Lankaran Uprisings (Azerbaijani: Lənkəran üsyanları) were a series of several armed uprisings in the southern districts of Azerbaijan against the Soviet regime starting from July 1920.^[1] The early attempts of rebellion were successful, bringing crushing blows upon the local Soviet forces and taking control of many districts in the southernmost districts of the Azerbaijani SSR. But additional Soviet forces were sent to the region via Baku in 1921 and the guerillas couldn't compete with the Soviet naval support from the Caspian Sea. Two more uprisings were commended until 1922, when the Soviet authority finally got full control of the region.