 On 26 July 1918, a coup d'état overthrew the Bolsheviks in Baku.The new body, the Central Caspian Dictatorship, wanted to arrest Stepan Shahumian, but he and his 1,200 Red Army troops seized the local arsenal and 13 ships, and began heading to Astrakhan.The Caspian fleet, loyal to the new government, turned them back.