Ganja, Azerbaijan
In July 1920, the Armenian Regiment was formed in Ganja, Azerbaijan within the 20th Division of the RSFSR's 11th Army, which was sent to Baku on July 27 to reinforce the 32nd Division. The Armenian Regiment had a strength of 750 soldiers, mostly participants of the pro-Bolshevik May Uprising. The Armenian Separate Rifle Regiment would be founded on 16 October 1920 in Baku, attached to the 32nd Division, led by its commander Ivan Panfilov and military commissar Garegin Yesayan. The Regiment moved into Armenia with the 20th Rifle Division in November and then entered Yerevan with the 11th Red Army via Kanaker.