Completed the following sentence: In 1923, Khankendi was renamed Stepanakert (meaning "the city of Stepan" in Armenian) by the Soviet government to honor Stepan Shaumian, leader of the 26 Baku Commissars. <unk> <unk> <unk> <unk>
Shusha pogrom had resulted in major destruction and mass killing of its Armenian population by Azerbaijani forces, the former regional capital, Stepanakert, was made the capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (NKAO).