In Azerbaijan, June 26 is widely known as a vacation – the Day of the Armed Forces.

Be aware that on today, 106 years in the past, the primary common army unit – the Particular Corps was arrange by the choice of the Council of Ministers of the Individuals’s Republic of Azerbaijan (1918-1920).

Following the restoration of Azerbaijan’s independence in 1991, the military vacation was celebrated on October 9 – when the primary battalion of the long run nationwide military was created. This was the case till 1998 when by the decree of President Heydar Aliyev, June 26 was declared the Day of the Armed Forces.

An necessary milestone within the fashionable historical past of the Azerbaijani armed forces proved to be the 44-day Karabakh conflict  autumn of 2020,  when Fuzuli, Jabrayil, Zangilan, Gubadli districts, part of the previous Agdara district, village of Hadrut and plenty of villages of the Khojavend district had been liberated from the Armenian occupation. The fruits of the army marketing campaign was a superb operation to liberate the fortress metropolis of Shusha.

After that, Armenia capitulated and withdrew its troops from Aghdam, Lachin and Kelbajar districts.