Mughan Soviet Republic

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| conventional_long_name = Mughan Soviet Republic

| native_name = Muğan Sovet Respublikası
Муганская Советская Республика

| common_name = Mughan

| p1 = Azerbaijan Democratic Republic

| flag_p1 = Flag of Azerbaijan.svg

| p2 = Provisional Military Dictatorship of Mughan

| flag_p2 = Flag of Russia.svg

| s1 = Azerbaijan Democratic Republic

| flag_s1 = Flag of Azerbaijan.svg

| image_flag = Socialist red flag.svg

| flag_caption = Flag

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| capital = Lankaran

| common_languages = Russian, Azerbaijani, Talysh

| government_type = Soviet republic

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| era = Russian Civil War

| date_start = 15 May

| year_start = 1919

| date_end = 2 June

| year_end = 1919

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| leader_name1 = D. D. Chirkin

| leader_title1 = Chairman of the Board

| leader_title2 = Political Commissar of the Revolutionary Military Council

| leader_name2 = T.I. Ulyantsev-Otradnev

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The Mughan Soviet Republic was a short-lived pro-Bolshevik state that existed in present-day southeastern Azerbaijan from March to June 1919. It was founded in opposition to the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic in Baku. It was proclaimed mostly by the ethnic Russian part of the population of the region,{{cite book |last1=Ермоленко |first1=Татьяна |last2=Морозова |first2=Ольга |title=Погоны и будёновки: Гражданская война глазами белых офицеров и красноармейцев |date=2013 |publisher=РГНФ |url=http://www.belrussia.ru/kontent/litera/pogib.pdf |access-date=19 January 2022 |language=ru}} and ceased to exist when the army of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic took control over the region.{{Cite web |date=2018-04-10 |title=Ghost nations of Russia's civil war |url=https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/ghost-nations-of-russias-civil-war/ |access-date=2024-05-09 |website=Big Think |language=en-US}}