The Greater Caucasus region is considered climatically suitable for the Pallas's cat. In Armenia, an individual was killed near Vedi in the mountains of the Ararat Province in the late 1920s. In January 2020, an individual was sighted about farther north in the Tavush Province; the habitat at this location transitions from semi-desert to montane steppe at an elevation of about . Records in Azerbaijan are limited to a Pallas's cat skin found in Karabakh and a sighting of an individual in Julfa District, both in the late 20th century. -->