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=== Passing to Imperial Russian rule === After the last [[Russo-Persian War (1826–1828)|Russo-Persian War]] and the [[Treaty of Turkmenchay]], the Nakhchivan Khanate passed into Russian possession in 1828 due to [[Qajar dynasty|Iran's]] forced ceding as a result of the outcome of the war and treaty.<ref>Timothy C. Dowling [https://books.google.com/books?id=KTq2BQAAQBAJ&pg=PA728 ''Russia at War: From the Mongol Conquest to Afghanistan, Chechnya, and Beyond''] pp 728 ABC-CLIO, December 2, 2014 {{ISBN|1598849484}}</ref> With the onset of Russian rule, the [[Tsar]]ist authorities encouraged resettlement of Armenians to Nakhchivan and other areas of the [[Caucasus]] from the [[Qajar Empire|Persian]] and [[Ottoman Empire]]s. Special clauses of the Turkmenchay and [[Treaty of Adrianople (1829)|Adrianople]] treaties allowed for this.<ref>[http://bse.sci-lib.com/article112961.html Туркманчайский договор 1828], [[Great Soviet Encyclopedia]]</ref> [[Alexandr Griboyedov]], the Russian envoy to [[Persia]], stated that by the time Nakhchivan came under Russian rule, there had been 290 native Armenians families in the province excluding the city of Nakhchivan, the number of Muslim families was 1,632, and the number of the Armenian immigrant families was 943. The same numbers in the city of Nakhchivan were 114, 392, and 285 respectively. With such a dramatic influx of Armenian immigrants, Griboyedov noted friction arising between the Armenian and Muslim populations. He requested Russian army commander Count [[Ivan Paskevich]] to give orders on resettlement of some of the arriving people further to the region of Daralayaz to quiet the tensions.<ref>{{in lang|ru}} [http://feb-web.ru/feb/griboed/texts/fom88/ps88_150.htm A.S. Griboyedov. Letter to Count I.F.Paskevich].</ref> The Nakhchivan Khanate was dissolved in 1828 the same year it came into Russian possession, and its territory was merged with the territory of the [[Erivan khanate]] and the area became the [[Nakhichevan uezd]] of the new [[Armenian oblast]], which later became the [[Erivan Governorate]] in 1849. According to official statistics of the Russian Empire, by the turn of the 20th century Tatars (later known as [[Azerbaijanis]]) made up roughly 57% of the ''uezd''<nowiki/>'s population, while Armenians constituted roughly 42%.<ref name="Brockhaus"/> At the same time in the western half of the [[Sharur-Daralayaz uezd]], the territory of which would form the northern part of modern-day Nakhchivan (Sharur District), Tatars constituted 70.5% of the population, while Armenians made up 27.5%.<ref>{{in lang|ru}} [https://dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/brokgauz_efron/114846/Шаруро Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary. "Sharur-Daralagyoz uyezd".] St. Petersburg, Russia, 1890–1907</ref> During the [[Russian Revolution of 1905]], conflict erupted between the Armenians and the Tatars, culminating in the [[Armenian-Tatar massacres]] which saw violence in Nakhchivan in May of that year.<ref name="Croissant-9">Michael P. Croissant. ''The Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict: Causes and Implications'', p. 9. {{ISBN|0-275-96241-5}}</ref>
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