The Armenian Separate Rifle Regiment would be founded on 16 October 1920 in Baku, attached to the 32nd Division, led by its commander Ivan Panfilov and military commissar Garegin Yesayan.
Over the next two months, the Armenian Red Army would continue to engage in hostilities with varying success, fighting in the Daralagyaz, Artashat, Vedi, Khulukhanlu, Aghbash, Charbakh, Shengavit, Etchmiadzin regions.
He subsequently established radio communications with the 11th Army, which sent reinforcements and led to the recapture of Yerevan on April 4 from the directions of Kanaker, Shengavit, and Etchmiadzin, causing rebelling ARF forces to retreat to Zangezur.
On April 12, on the request of the Soviet 11th Red Army, Turkish troops under the command of Kazim Karabekir Pasha also left Alexandropol.
It was renamed to the 76th Voroshilov Mountain Red Rifle Armenian Division in 1935 and became part of the Transcaucasian Military District when the Separate Caucasus Army was reorganised.