[1][2] Hamdulla Afandi Afandizadeh, Kachak Mail, and ADR army officer Afandiyev were leaders of the uprising which lasted about three weeks.

[5] The military commissar of Guba sent troops including a machine gunner to restore Soviet power in the village of Kuzun.

[7][8] One of the strongest groups in Guba was led by Hamdulla Afandi Afandizadeh,[9] a former member of the Parliament of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic.

These uprising, which were dangerous for the Soviet regime, were seriously discussed at the plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan on September 9, 1920.

The appeal provided information about the uprising that took place in the district under the leadership of Hamdulla Efendi and Kachak Mail, as well as its suppression.

To prevent the uprising from escalating, Musabayov announced an amnesty on behalf of the Soviet government to the rebels and called on the militants to surrender their weapons.

The appeal also called on the population not to believe the propaganda against the Bolshevik forces, not to join the local Beys and Khans who took a stance against the Soviet government, and to hand over their weapons to the authorities.

[16] Hamdulla Efendi, the leader of one of the largest armed groups of the Guba rebels, which was hardly suppressed, retreated to the high mountain villages bordering Shamakhi.