[1] Some groups of Caucasian Kurds were deported to Central Asia in 1937, 1938, and 1944 by the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin, with most of their descendants now residing in Kazakhstan.

[12] The Shaddadids were the first Kurds who lived in the Caucasus, hailing from the Hadhabani Tribe, which itself occasionally had a presence in Dvin (medieaval Armenia) during the 10th century.

[13][14] The first Kurdish presence in the Caucasus region (specifically the Transcaucasus) can be traced back to the mid-10th century when the Shaddadids established themselves at Dvin by its first emir Muhammad ibn Shaddad.

[1][7] According to Grigory Chursin, at the time of the Ottoman–Safavid War (1578–1590) a wave of Kurdish immigration in western parts of modern Azerbaijan may have taken place in 1589 when soldiers chose to stay in the conquered lands.

In the late 19th and early 20th century, Yazidis who fled from the Ottoman Empire due to religious persecution settled in the Russian Transcaucasus.

[20] After the dissolution of the First Republic of Armenia and the founding of the Socialist Soviet Republic of Armenia (later Armenian SSR), the soviet policy of Korenizatsiia was enforced, leading to the founding of radio, press and education in Kurdish (Kurmanji), alongside the creation of a Kurdish alphabet using the Armenian script in 1922 followed by a Latin version in 1927 and under Stalin in 1945 a Cyrillic one too.

[24] Between 1992 and 1994 the Kurdish minority of the Lachin and Kelbajar districts of Azerbaijan was forced to flee due to the Armenian invasion during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.

[26] In 1923, the Central Executive Committee of the Azerbaijan SSR created the administrative unit Kurdistan Uezd, 73% of its population was Kurdish and 26% was Azeri.

In November 1998, the State Duma sent President Boris Yeltsin a recommendation to grant Öcalan political asylum in Russia, but to no avail.

[33] The number of Kurds in Georgia fluctuated throughout the 20th century, between 1944 and 1948 under the Soviet Union parts of the kurdish population were deported to Central Asia.

The Shaddadid Dynasty reached its greatest extent in 1030, during which it included territories from modern-day Armenia and Azerbaijan.

The Shaddadid State (of Dvin & Ganja) was fully annexed in 1075 by the Seljuk Sultan Alp Arslan and the dynasty survived in Ani through Manuchihr ibn Shavur.

[39][2] The administrative unit of Kurdistan Okrug only existed for around 2 months before being dissolved, which was due to it straining relations between the Soviet Union, Iran and Turkey.

It was backed by Armenia, and when their support stopped due to political change in late 1992 the Republic was dissolved.

[35] In November 1944, multiple ethnicities from Southwestern Georgia SSR were deported to Central Asia, among them Caucasian Kurds.

[35] The Kurdish population in Kazakhstan has descended from Caucasian Kurds from Azerbaijan and Georgia, who have been deported to Central Asia in 1937, 1938 and 1944 by Joseph Stalin.