The Guba district included the present-day Guba, Gusar, Shabran, Khachmaz, and Siyazan districts. The center of the area was the city of Guba. This territorial division existed in Tsarist Russia, the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, and the Azerbaijan SSR until 1929.
The 1916 statistical data “Tifliskiye Vedomosti” show the national composition of Guba district as follows:
Of the total 198,204 people of Quba area, 64.15% were Azerbaijanis and Tatars, 24.72% were Lezghins, Kyrgyz, Buduks, Czechs, Avars, etc., 7.58% were Jews and 2.71% were Russians. , 0.78% were others.
The section shows a map of Guba district compiled during the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic.On that map, the villages that were subjected to genocide in 1918 are marked with special red labels.167 villages were exposed to massacre. 38 villages were destroyed in Guba , 27 in Gusar, 65 in Khachmaz, 21 in Shabran and 16 in Siyazan
