Anastas Mikoyan, Joseph Stalin, and Sergo Ordzhonikidze Published June 28, 2015 at 700 × 495 in How Moscow views Nagorny Karabakh Anastas Mikoyan, Joseph Stalin, and Sergo Ordzhonikidze, Tbilisi, 1925. Though often held chiefly responsible for assigning Nagorny Karabakh to Azerbaijan, Stalin’s actual influence was not a major factor in the final decision.