Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev is to mediate a meeting of the Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders in Sochi on 23 January.
Ilham Aliyev and Serzh Sargsyan will have bilateral meetings with Dmitriy Medvedev in Sochi, the Russian presidential website reported.
The same day all three presidents will meet to discuss resolution of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh, the website said.
The summit is likely to be the last mediated by Medvedev in his capacity as Russian president, since elections will be held in March.
Medvedev has mediated nine meetings of Serzh Sargsyan and Ilham Aliyev since 2008.
The last trilateral summit, held in June 2011, ended without agreement.
The Karabakh conflict began in 1988 when Armenia made claims on the Azerbaijani territory of Nagorno-Karabakh. In a bitter war Armenian armed forces occupied a swathe of Azerbaijani land, including the Nagorno-Karabakh region and seven surrounding districts. Despite a ceasefire in 1994, no long-term peace agreement has been reached. The two sides' troops are separated by the contact line running through Azerbaijani territory.
The nub of the conflict remains unresolved - the competing claims of territorial integrity, which Azerbaijan insists takes precedence in the case of Karabakh, and self-determination, which Armenia wants to see for the Armenians of Karabakh.
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