Black January, also known as Black Saturday or the January Massacre, was a violent crackdown on Azerbaijani nationalism and anti-Soviet sentiment in Baku on 19–20 January 1990, as part of a state of emergency during the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
January 20 monument
Maneuvers of the Soviet Army in Baku, 20 January 1990
Victims of Black January in Martyrs' Lane, Baku.
Azerbaijani stamp with photos of Black January
Dmitry Timofeyevich Yazov was a Marshal of the Soviet Union. A veteran of the Great Patriotic War, Yazov served as Minister of Defence from 1987 until he was arrested for his part in the 1991 August Coup, four months before the fall of the Soviet Union.
Yazov was the last person to be appointed to the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union on 28 April 1990, the only Marshal born in Siberia, and at the time of his death on 25 February 2020, he was the last living Marshal of the Soviet Union.
Yazov in 2013
Yazov in 1941.
Minister of Defense Dmitry Yazov during a visit to the United States in 1989