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Nobel brothers set up oil-production company.
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Armenia regions of the Ottoman Empire fall to the Russian army.
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Civil War breaks out following the Bolshevik revolution in Russia.
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Independent Azerbaijan is republic declared.
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Independent Armenia emerges from defeat of Ottoman Empire in WW1.
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Kazakhstan becomes an autonomous republic of the USSR. Until 1925 it was called the Kyragz autonomous province to distinguish its people from the Cossacks.
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Red army invades. Georgia decalred a Soviet Socialist Republic.
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Armenia is incorporated in the Union of soviet socialist Republics USSR.
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Transcacasian soviet federative republic dissolved; Azerbaijan becomes full republic of the Soviet Union.
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Kazakhstan becomes a full Union Republic of the USSR
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the first nuclear test explosion is carried out at the Semipalatinsk nuclear test ground in eastern Kazakhstan.
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Heydar Aliyev becomes full member of Soviet Politburo and first deputy chairman of USSR council of ministers
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Armanian nationalist win parliamentary elections independence is declared, but ignored by Mascow.
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The supreme soviet elects Nursultan Nazarbaver first Kazakhstan president and on 25 october declares state sovereignty.
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A referendum sees 94% vote for secession from the Soviet Union
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After failed coup attempt in Moscow, Azerbaijan parliament votes to restore independence in elections boycotted by opposition Mr. Mutalilbov becomes president.
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Georgia has part of the transcaucasian soviet federative republic, becomes founder member of the Soviet Union.
