Editing Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic (section)

==== Declaring independence ====
On Saturday, January 20, 1990,<ref>{{cite book|editor-last=Vogt-Downey|editor-first=Marilyn|title=The USSR 1987–1991: Marxist Perspectives|date=1993|publisher=Humanities Press|location=London|page=190|isbn=9780391037724|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q1FpAAAAMAAJ&q=nakhchivan+declared+independence}}</ref> the [[Supreme Soviet]] of the Nakhchivan ASSR issued a declaration stating the intention for Nakhchivan to [[secede]] from the USSR to protest the Soviet Union's actions during [[Black January]].<ref>{{cite news |last=William|first=Nick B. Jr.|title= Soviet Enclave Declares Independence|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-01-21-mn-1001-story.html|work=Los Angeles Times|date=January 21, 1990|access-date=April 22, 2022}}</ref> Iranian Press Agency, [[Islamic Republic News Agency|IRNA]], reported that upon its independence, Nakhchivan asked Turkey, Iran, and the [[United Nations]] to come to its aid.<ref>{{cite book|editor-last1=Gwertzman|editor-first1=Bernard M.|editor-last2=Kaufman|editor-first2=Michael T.|title=The Decline and Fall of the Soviet Empire|date=1992|publisher=Times Books|location=New York|page=229|isbn=9780812920468|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AzhpAAAAMAAJ}}</ref> It was the first part of the Soviet Union to declare independence,<ref>{{cite magazine |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Asian Event/USSR|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pEQnAAAAMAAJ&q=nakhchivan+declared+independence|magazine=Asian Bulletin|location=Taiwan|publisher=APACL Publications|page=73|volume=15|issue=1–6|date=1990|access-date=April 22, 2022}}</ref> preceding [[Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic|Lithuania]]'s declaration by only a few weeks.<ref>{{cite book|editor-last=Kanet|editor-first=R.|title=Russia:Re-Emerging Great Power|series=Studies in Central and Eastern Europe|date=2007|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|location=New York|page=140|isbn=9780230590489|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jriDDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA140}}</ref> Subsequently, Nakhchivan was independent from Moscow and Baku but was then brought under control by the clan of [[Heydar Aliyev]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://jamestown.org/program/iranian-influence-in-nakhchivan-impact-on-azerbaijani-armenian-conflict/|title=Iranian Influence in Nakhchivan: Impact on Azerbaijani-Armenian Conflict|website=Jamestown}}</ref>