Provisional Military Dictatorship of Mughan

The Provisional Military Dictatorship of Mughan was a short-lived British-controlled anti-communist state founded in the Lankaran region (present-day Azerbaijan) on 4 August 1918, amid the Mughan clashes.

Provisional Military Dictatorship of Mughan (1918–1918) Mughan Territorial Administration (1918–1919)
1918–1919
Left: Flag of the White movement Right: Union Jack
Location of Lankaran District
Capital	Goytepe
Common languages	Russian Azerbaijani Talysh
Government	Military dictatorship
Leader
• 1918	T. P. Sukhorukov
Historical era	Russian Civil War
• Established	1 August 1918
• Reorganized as Mughan Territorial Administration	December 1918
• Disestablished	25 April 1919
Succeeded by Mughan Soviet Republic
Today part of	Azerbaijan

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". In December 1918, it was reorganized as the Mughan Territorial Administration. 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.^[1]