The Mughan government did not support the independence of Azerbaijan and it was led by White Russian colonel T. P. Sukhorukov, who acted under the protection of the British occupation of Baku.

Mughan declared to be an autonomous part of "single and indivisible Russia".

On 25 April 1919, a violent protest organized by Talysh workers of pro-Bolshevik orientation exploded in Lankaran and deposed the Mughan Territorial Administration.

On 15 May the Extraordinary Congress of the "Councils of Workers' and Peasants' Deputies" of Lankaran district proclaimed the Mughan Soviet Republic.

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