Quba Uprising— the uprising by Azerbaijanis against the Soviet occupation in 1920. Hamdulla Afandi Afandizadeh, Kachak Mail, and ADR army officer Afandiyev were leaders of the uprising which lasted about three weeks. Aliheydar Garayev and Levan Gogoberidze were delegated to the region to suppress the uprising. After weeks of unequal clashes, the rebels were defeated. During the uprising, many villages were burned and 400-500 peasants killed. About Outbreak of the uprising On August 23, 1920 residents of the village of Kuzun (Küzün) in the Guba district of Azerbaijan staged an armed uprising. By killing 2 policemen, they declared their disobedience to the new Soviet government. To prevent this uprising, the district committee sent a detachment of 45 armed forces (30 cavalry, 15 infantry) from the 4th Cavalry Regiment to the Kuzun village. However, the detachment was unable to quell the revolt and suffered heavy losses. Only six people survived the detachment. The military commissar of Guba sent troops including a machine gunner to restore Soviet power in the village of Kuzun. On August 26, a new battle broke out between the rebels in the village of Kuzun and Soviet forces. The villagers again resisted the Soviet forces. On August 29, 1920, a new battle took place between Soviet forces and the rebels at four versts of Guba. Soviet troops of a hundred men suffered heavy casualties. By the end of August and the beginning of September, an armed rebel group had already been formed. There were also Turkish officers in the group led by Lieutenant Colonel Afandiyev of the Republican Army. The rebels seized a large number of machine guns and five-barreled rifles. At 7 am on September 3, 1920 the rebels attacked Davachi-Khachmaz region. There they clashed with the seventh cavalry detachment. After a fierce battle, Soviet-Bolshevik fighters were able to maintain their positions. However, four of them were killed and four Lewis machine guns were seized. An armored train of the Bolsheviks was placed near Khachmaz which was increasing their chances to attack. However, the rebels were in positions that could not be reached by artillery fire of the train. According to the intelligence, the locals who were also against the new regime formed an armed group in Charkhi station. One of the strongest groups in Guba was led by Hamdulla Afandi Afandizadeh, a former member of the Parliament of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic.Sattar Afandiyev, a national army