State · 1920 – 1991

Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic

A state of 1920 – 1991 — 71 years in the Middle East and North Africa. It replaced Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic and followed Azerbaijan Socialist Soviet Republic. It was replaced by Azerbaijan. The atlas records 29 things within it — wars and battles 2 · unrest and atrocity 3 · people 24. Its line of rulers holds 32 people.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the state.

Stood: 71 years; 1920 – 1991
Rulers: 32; the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan
Within it: 29; recorded rows
Symbols: 18; on record, with years

Where it sits in time

Five thousand years, 3000 BCE to 2026; the state in gold, what it replaced or followed and what replaced or followed it in grey.

Before and after

The states the record files it as replacing or following, and those that replaced or followed it - Wikidata's own statements, each read from this state's side.

Before it

Azerbaijan Socialist Soviet Republic · follows
Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic · replaces · 1922 – 1936

After it

Azerbaijan · replaced by · 1991 – present

Rulers

The line of First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan.

died in officeleft alive by a regular roada second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared throne

Ruler	Reign	Length	How it ended · source
Mirza Davud Huseynov	1920 – 1920	under a year	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Elena Stasova	1920 – 1920	under a year	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Sergei Kirov	1921 – 1926	5 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Levon Mirzoyan	1926 – 1929	3 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Nikolai Gikalo	1929 – 1930	1 year	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Vladimir Polonsky	1930 – 1933	3 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Ruben Rubenov	1933 – 1933	under a year	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Mir Jafar Baghirov	1933 – 1953	20 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Huseynbala Aghaverdiyev	1935 – 1936	1 year	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Mir Bashir Gasimov	1938 – 1949	11 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Saleh Gojayev	1940 – 1941	1 year	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Əzizağa Əzizbəyov	1941 – 1946	5 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Nazar Heydarov	1949 – 1954	5 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Teymur Guliyev	1953 – 1953	under a year	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Mir Teymur Yagubov	1953 – 1954	1 year	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Mirza Ibrahimov	1954 – 1958	4 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
İlyas Abdullayev	1954 – 1958	4 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Imam Mustafayev	1954 – 1959	5 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
İlyas Abdullayev	1958 – 1959	1 year	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Махмуд Мамедов	1958 – 1960	2 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Saftar Jafarov	1959 – 1961	2 years	died in office, manner not recordedread off the dates alone
Vali Akhundov	1959 – 1969	10 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Rza Sadıqov	1960 – 1962	2 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Mamed Iskenderov	1961 – 1969	8 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Ali Ibrahimov	1965 – 1970	5 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Heydar Aliyev	1969 – 1982	13 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Gurban Khalilov	1969 – 1985	16 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
İsmayıl İbrahimov	1970 – 1978	8 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Suleiman Tatliev	1978 – 1985	7 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Kamran Baghirov	1982 – 1988	6 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Suleiman Tatliev	1985 – 1989	4 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Abdurrahman Vazirov	1988 – 1990	2 years	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Elmira Gafarova	1989 – 1990	1 year	left office aliveread off the dates alone
Ayaz Mutallibov	1990 – 1991	1 year	left office aliveread off the dates alone

32 rulers, 32 with terms dated as terms, covering 1920 – 1991. Median reign 3.5 years. 20 of 33 handovers irregular - a killing, a deposition, a rival claimant, a rising or a coup beside it. The violent-handover count is withheld: power changed hands so often that any rising falls beside one (exposure 1.00, limit 0.6). A blank in the last column means no kin on record, which is coverage, never “unrelated”.

Flags and arms, in order

Each symbol with the years its own statement gives; the timeline flies the one of the year on screen.

coat of arms, 1920 – 1921Unofficial Emblem of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (1920-1921) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Vector Version: Felipe Fidelis Tobias
flag, 1920 – 1920Flag of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (1920) · Public domain
flag, 1920 – 1921Flag of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (1920–1921) · Public domain
coat of arms, 1921 – 1926Emblem of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (1921–1926) · Public domain
flag, 1921 – 1922Flag of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (1921–1922) · Public domain
flag, 1922 – 1924Flag of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (1922–1924) · Public domain
flag, 1924 – 1927Flag of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (1924–1927) · Public domain
coat of arms, 1926 – 1930Emblem of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (1926–1930) · Public domain
flag, 1927 – 1931Flag of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (1927–1931) · Public domain
flag, 1931 – 1937Flag of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (1931–1937) · Public domain
coat of arms, 1931 – 1937Emblem of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (1931–1937) · Public domain
flag, 1937 – 1940Flag of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (1937–1940) · Public domain

6 more in the atlas.

What happened within it, by century

Every row the atlas hosts under this state, by the century it began in: wars and battles in red, risings, regime changes and massacres beside them, everything else in grey. A tall bar is a century the record is full for, which is partly a fact about Wikipedia.

1900 – 199918 rows · 2 wars and battles · 3 risings, regime changes and massacres

Black January · battle · 1990
Nagorno-Karabakh conflict · war · 1988
Sumgait pogrom · atrocity · 1988
Mirza Ibrahimov · ruler · 1911 – 1993
Baku pogrom · atrocity · 1990
Imam Mustafayev · ruler · 1910 – 1997
Elmira Gafarova · ruler · 1934 – 1993
Kirovabad pogrom · atrocity · 1988

and 10 more in the atlas.

Among all states

Each measure against the states that carry it, never against all of them: a bar is the share of those states below this one.

How long it stood71 years
stood longer than 40% of 3,187 states with a recorded end or still standing.
Wars recorded per century1.0
had more wars on record per century than 94% of 3,187 states, counting the wars the atlas hosts under each.
How long a reign lasted, at the median4 years
had longer reigns, at the median, than 13% of 967 states whose dated line can carry a median.
Rulers on record32
has more rulers on record than 95% of 1,968 states with a line of rulers.

What led to it, and what came of it

The investigation's own picture: 2 causes the record names and 2 results, the strongest six of each at their own years, joined to the state by the kind of claim - a recorded statement solid, the article's sentence dashed, a theory dash-dot.

linkedcoincidence

Open the investigation: every row with its evidence, the conditions at the time, the theories condition by condition, and the succession analysed.

Theories that apply to its ending

Of 3 theories of why states fall, 1 has every condition present at this ending; each is applied by its own logic, condition by condition, and whether its authors named this case is a footnote.

Demographic-structural breakdown
Goldstone 1991 · Turchin & Nefedov 2009
Applies by its own logic: 2 of its 3 conditions held here (it needs 2), and this is the kind of outcome it predicts — unrest, adverse regime change or the state's ending.
- overlapping reigns — rival claimants — within 20 y, or 3 or more changes of ruler within 20 y, or 2 or more reigns of two years or less within 20 y, or a monarch deposed or killed within 20 y — rivalClaimants -1; handovers 6; shortReigns 2
- a war the state is fighting, still under way, or a war the state fought, ended within 10 y — warOngoing; warEnded

Open in the atlas

On the timeline, 1910 – 2001, with everything that stood beside it.
On the map in 1956, live: scrub the year and watch its borders move.
Investigate it: what led to it, what came of it, and its succession analysed.

Wikidata Q131337 (CC0) · symbols from Wikimedia Commons, each credited above · data built 2026-10-06 · Pastlas v2.9.1, by Oleh Voronko. The published atlas and its data are for non-commercial use.