The second great uprising against the Soviet regime had happened in Karabakh.At that time, horse and foot regiments of the National Army in the amount of 6 thousands of soldiers and officers were kept under the control of Karabakh. Two divisions of the 11th Red Army were sent for the disarmament of these military units. On June 5, 1920, Azerbaijani troops began military operationsagainst these forces in Terter, Aghdam and Shusha. The enemy suffered heavy losses. In order to unite all anti-Soviet forces, prominent Turkish General Nuru Pasha with the troops came to support the defenders of Shusha. The National Army regiment, with the participation of Turkish troops overthrew Soviet power in Karabakh, and Nuru Pasha was declared the governor of Karabakh. However, receiving additional forces, the Red Army suppressed the uprising on June 15 and, along with the Armenians massacred the population. The surviving part of the national army went to the South Azerbaijan, who at that time was under the control S.M. Khiyabani. The next uprising started in Zagatala, on June 5, 1920 and the main forces of this anti-Soviet uprising were local peasants. The National Army cavalry regiment, located in the region, joined them. Hafeez Efendiyev and Ahmediyev led rebellion. The rebels, defeating the Bolsheviks, took the first Zagatala and then Qakh. After the 11th Red Army received additional military support, the uprising was suppressed on June 18 1920, and Zagatala had been re-occupied by the Russian troops. In the summer of 1920, another insurrection rose in Shamkir district against the Soviet regime, where along with men, women and even children fought heroically. Only with the arrival here additional four divisions of military forces the Soviet authorities managed to suppress the uprising with great difficulty. Soviet army was able to suppress the Lankaran uprising, started in 1920, only the beginning of 1921.
