Embassy of the Republic of Azerbaijan in the People`s Republic of China

In 1987 the 366th regiment was brought to Khankandi. It consisted of 1800 men. But in fact there served only 350 men in it. There were 100 armored cars in this regiment. Its chief was Yuri Zavrigarov. There were 54 Armenian officers and ensigns in this regiment's stuff. Battalion Commander of the II-nd (??) regiment was Seyran Oganyan - Armenian by nationality. Armored cars and soldiers were under his command.

At the beginning of February 1992 there was a talk between Elmira Gafarova - the chairman of the Supreme Soviet of Azerbaijan and marshal Shaposhnikov in Moscow. On February 12th she again met him in Minsk. She insisted on leaving of the 366th motor-rifle regiment, but Shaposhnikov didn't agree. He said that it had to be agreed with chiefs. On February 12th Ayaz Mutallibov -the president of independent Azerbaijan Republic flew to Minsk. 5 times he had meetings with Boris Yeltsin - the president of Russia. But he couldn't succeed the leaving of the regiment. Then deputy Araz Alizadeh flew to Moscow and made an agreement about the 3661 motor-rifle regiment. These are what he said: «Here I met with Yeltsin and we talked about 45 minutes, in my presence Yeltsin phoned to Shaposhnikov and gave him an order about leaving of the regiment. On February 24th Marshall Shaposhnikow called me on and said that the 366th regiment would leave soon. On February 25th I phoned him again. He said that the regiment was leaving Khankandi. But soon we understood that we had been deceived".

Till the last days Marshal Shaposhnikov didn't want to confess that the 366th regiment had been given to Armenians. Most of the officers and soldiers were moved to Georgia. After it the regiment assistant, commander of the Transcaucasian Military District troops, general-lieutenant Sufiyan Bappayev said some facts that proved the duplicity of Russian service men. He said that the regiment commander - lieutenant colonel Yuri Zavrigarov was given a command, but he acted in other way. When landing men wanted to prevent him, one of them was killed by Armenians. Commander of the 2nd battalion Seyran Ohanyan handed in Armenians a great number of military equipments, including 17 armored cars, 4 antiaircraft guns and others.