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Operation Ring
Operation Ring (; , ), known in Azerbaijan as Operation Chaykand () was the codename for the May 1991 military operation conducted by the Soviet Army, Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (Soviet Union), Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) of the USSR and OMON units of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic, Azerbaijan SSR in the Goygol District, Khanlar and Goranboy District, Shahumyan districts of the Azerbaijani SSR, the Shusha District (NKAO), Shusha, Mardakert District (NKAO), Martakert and Hadrut District (NKAO), Hadrut districts of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast, and along the eastern border of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic, Armenian SSR in the districts of Goris, Noyemberyan District, Noyemberyan, Ijevan and Shamshadin District, Shamshadin. Officially dubbed a "Passport system in the Soviet Union, passport checking operation," the ostensible goal of the operation was to disarm "illegal armed formations" in and around Nagorno-Karabakh, re ...
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Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is an ethnic and territorial conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the region of Nagorno-Karabakh, inhabited mostly by ethnic Armenians until 2023, and seven surrounding districts, inhabited mostly by Azerbaijanis until their expulsion during the 1990s. The Nagorno-Karabakh region was entirely claimed by and partially controlled by the breakaway Republic of Artsakh, but was recognized internationally as part of Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan gradually re-established control over Nagorno-Karabakh region and the seven surrounding districts. Throughout the Soviet period, Armenians in the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast were heavily discriminated against. The Soviet Azerbaijani authorities worked to suppress Armenian culture and identity in Nagorno-Karabakh, pressured Armenians to leave the region and encouraged Azerbaijanis to settle within it, although Armenians remained the majority population. During the ''glasnost'' period, a 1988 Nagorno-Karabak ...
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Simon Achikgyozyan
Simon Achikgyozyan (, 6 February 1939 – 30 April 1991) was one of the earliest Armenian military commanders during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War. He is considered a hero in Armenia. Early life, education and career Achikgyozyan was born in the city of Galați, Kingdom of Romania to Hovhannes and Siranush from the Ottoman Empire, survivors of the Armenian genocide. In 1946, his family resettled in Soviet Armenia. Achikgyozyan graduated from the Yerevan State University in 1960 as an engineer-geologist. From 1961 to 1990, he worked at the Institute of Geological Sciences of the National Academy of Sciences of Armenia, earning a PhD in Geology in 1970. He is the author of over 70 scientific publications on geology and minerals of Armenia. First Nagorno-Karabakh War The Karabakh movement that started in February 1988 demanded the unification of the mostly Armenian-population Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast region of Soviet Azerbaijan with Armenia. The tensions between Armenians ...
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Armenia And Azerbaijan Through Peace And War
Armenia, officially the Republic of Armenia, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of West Asia. It is a part of the Caucasus region and is bordered by Turkey to the west, Georgia to the north and Azerbaijan to the east, and Iran and the Azerbaijani exclave of Nakhchivan to the south. Yerevan is the capital, largest city and financial center. The Armenian Highlands has been home to the Hayasa-Azzi, Shupria and Nairi. By at least 600 BC, an archaic form of Proto-Armenian, an Indo-European language, had diffused into the Armenian Highlands.Robert Drews (2017). ''Militarism and the Indo-Europeanizing of Europe''. Routledge. . p. 228: "The vernacular of the Great Kingdom of Biainili was quite certainly Armenian. The Armenian language was obviously the region's vernacular in the fifth century BC, when Persian commanders and Greek writers paired it with Phrygian. That it as brought into the region between the early sixth and the early fifth century BC, and that it immed ...
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