Remembrance Day (Azerbaijan)
| Remembrance Day | |
|---|---|
| Official name | Azerbaijani: Azərbaycanda Anım Günü |
| Also called | Remembrance Day in Azerbaijan |
| Observed by | Azerbaijan |
| Type | National |
| Significance | for honoring and mourning the military personnel who have died while serving in the Azerbaijani Armed Forces during the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war |
| Date | 27 September |
| Next time | 27 September 2025 |
| Frequency | Annual |
| Related to | 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war |
The Remembrance Day in Azerbaijan (Azerbaijani: Azərbaycanda Anım Günü) is a public holiday in Azerbaijan for honoring and mourning the military personnel who have died while serving in the Azerbaijani Armed Forces during the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, officially labelled as The Patriotic War. Established by the decree of the President of Azerbaijan, dated 2 December 2020, the holiday is held on 27 September, the day when the war began.
During the war, the government of Azerbaijan did not reveal the number of its military casualties. On 3 December, Azerbaijan stated that 2,783 of its soldiers had been killed during the war.