Replenishment of the composition of the units in the garrisons was deemed necessary, since the size of the 11th Red Army, which had entered the South Caucasus, was small in numbers.

[14] In pursuance of this decision, on 11 May, a decree was issued by the commander of the 11th Red Army, Mikhail Levandovsky, the member of the Revolutionary Military Council (RMC), Konstantin Mekhonoshin, and chief of staff, Alexander Remezov to transfer the Azerbaijani troops stationed in Aresh, Zakatal and Nukha districts to the 2nd Cavalry Corps in operational and combat terms.

[7] At about the same time, by the decree of the NKVM, the Azerbaijani Military School was renamed the Red Command Courses.

[18] Aliheydar Garayev then replaced Chingiz Ildyrym as the People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs.

Garayev, who played an important role in the creation of the Azerbaijani Red Army, began to lead the state body.

[22] On 17 August, Azrevcom issued its first decree on mobilization into the Red Army, according to which all citizens born in 1898–1902 inclusive, living in Baku District, were subject to conscription.

[24] The Extraordinary Military Mobilization Commission formed for this purpose began to engage in political work among the population.

The People's Commissariat for Military Affairs of the Azerbaijani SSR was assigned the right to establish the uniform of servicemen of the AzKA and AzVMF.

After the dissolution of the Caucasian Front, further relations between the Azerbaijani and Russian armed forces was planned to be determined by a subsequent agreement.

[26] In November 1920, the division, which was in the stage of formation, was reorganized into a Separate Consolidated Azerbaijani Brigade, headquartered in Baku.

[27] On 17 August of the same year, Azrevcom issued a decree, signed by Aliheydar Garayev and Nariman Narimanov, on mobilizing citizens to replenish the army.

[29] In August 1922, Bakinsky Rabochi, a Bolshevik newspaper based in Baku, published the memoirs of the then chairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Azerbaijani SSR Samad aga Agamalioglu in two issues.

[30] According to these memoirs, during his trip to Moscow, he managed to arrange a meeting with Vladimir Lenin, who at that time was very ill, as in May 1922, he had his first stroke.

During the meeting, Lenin inquired about the size of the Azerbaijani Red Army, and Agamalioglu, as he did not remembered the exact number, gave an approximate figure.

However, Agamalioglu explained that it was very difficult to create a large proletarian army in a poor country like Azerbaijan.

For the team of officers in training, "mastering the instructions from the field manual and understanding the existing examples of the civil war" was considered a priority.

[35] The People's Commissariat for Military and Naval Affairs of the Azerbaijani SSR faced certain difficulties while forming the national command staff.

The Bolshevik government of Azerbaijan, in turn, raised the issue of these officers serving in the army to the Soviet authorities.

With a special telegram from Sergo Ordzhonikidze, these two officers were sent to the order of the People's Commissariat for Military Affairs of Azerbaijan.