811th Lachin Alpine Rifle Regiment

The regiment was abolished by the decree of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Defence on 30 April 1992, two weeks before the Armenian forces occupied Lachin.

In the late 1980s, ethnic and territorial conflict broke out between the Armenians and Azerbaijanis in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.

Initially, the Armenians carried out small attacks on the villages of Lachin District and buried primitive mines on the roads, which was mostly populated by the Azerbaijanis and Kurds.

[1] İn late September 1991, the Azerbaijani authorities instructed local military officials to select several people from Karabakh and send them to Baku.

[4] The regiment was abolished on 30 April 1992, by the decree of the then Azerbaijani Minister of Defence, Rahim Gaziyev, and was subordinated to the 704th Brigade, which was commanded by Elbrus Orujov.

Naghiyev stated that the regiment, which included policemen from Lachin, moved inside Shusha to assist the Azerbaijani forces, but they were not commanded by anyone.