Because of the scale of atrocities against the Armenians as an ethnic group the pogrom was immediately linked to the Armenian Genocide of 1915 in the Armenian national consciousness . A number of international and Soviet sources also describes the events as genocide of the Armenian population . Sumgait pogrom is commemorated every year on February 28 in Armenia , Nagorno-Karabakh , and the Armenian diaspora
Armenian Genocide
Armenian Genocide
Sumgait pogrom