Word: kirovabad
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...months of the calendar. But the communists carried the process to extremes, both to honor their heroes and to Russify the hard-to-pronounce appellations of the territories, like Georgia and Central Asia, that they added to their polyglot empire. Thus, the ancient Azerbaijani trading city of Gyandzha became Kirovabad to honor Sergei Kirov (he got a ballet company too), who headed the Communist Party in the republic in the 1920s. Nizhni Novgorod was renamed Gorky, for the chronicler of the working class, Maxim...
...official press reported that in one incident alone in Armenia's Artashat region, some 3,000 people raided police headquarters and seized 106 automatic weapons, 30 carbines and more than 3,200 cartridges. In the Azerbaijani city of Kirovabad, extremists stormed the local agricultural institute, capturing 80 automatic guns, two machine guns and 27 rifles with bayonets...