Cika wannan jumlar: A shekara ta 1923, gwamnatin Soviet ta canja sunan Khankendi zuwa Stepanakert (ma'ana "birnin Stepan" a Armeniyanci) don girmama Stepan Shaumian, shugaban Kwamishinoni 26 na Baku. Tun lokacin da
Shusha pogrom ya haifar da babbar lalacewa da kisan gilla na yawan Armeniya da sojojin Azerbaijan suka yi, tsohon babban birnin yankin, Stepanakert, an sanya shi babban birnin lardin Nagorno-Karabakh mai cin gashin kansa (NKAO).