page_title: Postage stamps and postal history of Azerbaijan
section_title: Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic
hierarchical_section_title: Postage stamps and postal history of Azerbaijan / Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic
caption_attribution_description: English: Transcaucasian Federated Republic 2-kopeck stamp of 1923
context_page_description: The postage stamps and postal history of Azerbaijan describes the history of postage stamps and postal systems in Azerbaijan, which closely follows the political history of Azerbaijan, from its incorporation to the Russian Empire in 1806, to its briefly obtained independence in 1918, which it lost to the Soviet Union in 1920 and re-acquired it in 1991 after the fall of the Soviet Union.
context_section_description: On 12 March 1922, Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia were federated as the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic (TSFSR). Azerbaijani stamps were overprinted first in Azeri currency, then Transcaucasian rubles. Overprinted country-wide Soviet stamps were issued in 1923. From 1 October 1923 ASSR stamps were replaced completely by stamps of the TSFSR which were used until the dissolution of the TSFSR and the second refounding of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic (ASSR) in 1936. The stamps of the ASSR were issued again along with the country-wide Soviet stamps which were used until the dissolution of the ASSR and the Soviet Union in 1991.
caption: Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic stamp, 1923
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