They conducted campaigns against the Russian Caucasus territories to create a safe area for Muslim people, and to establish the Republic of Azerbaijan with their commander Nuri Pasha.

After the Battle of Baku, Nuri Pasha returned to the capital, while Süleyman İzzet and his army captured the Dagestani cities of Derbent and Port-Petrovsk.

In the battle of 13 October the guns of the Kars and Ardagan gunboats, as well as field and heavy artillery guns from the Primorskaya valley, suppressed the Turkish batteries with crossfire, three battalions attacked the enemy's positions in the foothills, and the Cossacks made a deep flank coverage, passing through the mountains.

[2] On 30 October, Armistice of Mudros came into force, The Turks did not stop the fighting and took advantage of the panic in the rear of the Russians, launching a general offensive.

In the battle of 4–5 November in the western mountain sector of defense — the heights of Tarki-Tau — the Russians stopped the enemy after the third counterattack, and on the morning of the 5th broke through his front in the direction of Kizil-Agach.

In this battle, the Ural officer's Cossack fifty, which turned out to be passing through Port-Petrovsk and came to the aid of the defenders of the city, as well as the 2nd amphibious detachment of sailors of the Caspian Flotilla, were almost completely killed.

The Turks, with a large number of machine guns and supported by field artillery from closed positions to the west of the plateau, counterattacked steadily, and in places climbed the heights of Tarki Tau, the last Russian defensive line.

The Russians lost 80 men killed and wounded in this attack, and two artillery soldiers went mad with terror and threw themselves from the cliff into the abyss.