Şirvan
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State : | Azerbaijan | |
City with rayon status: | Şirvan | |
Coordinates : | 39 ° 56 ' N , 48 ° 55' E | |
Height : | 5 m below sea level | |
Residents : | 77,000 (2014) | |
Time zone : | AZT ( UTC + 4 ) | |
Telephone code : | (+994) 2121 | |
Postal code : | AZ1800 | |
License plate : | 18th | |
Community type: | City (şəhər) | |
Mayor : | Mardan Jamalov | |
Şirvan ( Russian Ширван Shirvan ) is a city with the status of a rayon in Azerbaijan . In 2014 there were over 77,000 inhabitants in the city. Until 2008 the city was called Əli Bayramlı.
geography
The city is located southwest of the Azeri capital Baku on the left bank of the river Kür (Kura) in the plain of Şirvan (Shirvan steppe) or the historical region of the same name Shirvan . The district of the city, which also includes the municipality of Hacıqəhrəmanlı with 2600 inhabitants, has an area of 30 km².
traffic
Şirvan is located on the M6 expressway, which runs in a south-westerly direction near the border with neighboring Iran . Furthermore, the European route 60 runs near the city , which runs from Brest in France to Irkeschtam in Kyrgyzstan and connects the north-west of Azerbaijan near the border with Georgia with the east of Azerbaijan on the Caspian Sea .
history
The place where the city is today was originally called Karachuchar. In the 19th century, Russian resettlers founded a settlement nearby with the Russian name Subowka ( Russian Зубовка ); this subsequently became the official name.
In connection with the construction of the nearby railway line from Ələt near Baku to Culfa from the 1920s (the place was reached in 1924), the importance of Subovka grew. In 1938 it became an urban-type settlement and was named Əli Bayramlı (Russian and until 1991 officially Али-Байрамлы / Ali-Bairamly ) in honor of the communist revolutionary Əli Bayramov (1889-1920 ). In 1941 oil production began in the area. In 1954 the settlement was granted city rights. In connection with the construction of an oil- fired thermal power station - the first of its kind in the Soviet Union - from 1958 to 1968, Əli Bayramlı became an important industrial city.
On April 25, 2008, the city was renamed Şirvan because of its location in the historical Shirvan region.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1939 | 3,066 |
1959 | 13,427 |
1970 | 33,828 |
1979 | 41,583 |
1989 | 58,253 |
2009 | 72,346 |
2014 | 77,000 |
Economy and Infrastructure
Şirvan is the center of oil production in the Shirvan area, operated by Shirvanneft . There are 39 industrial companies in the city, including the thermal power station, oil and gas companies, and the light and food industries.
Şirvan is located on the 41lət – Culfa railway , which went into continuous operation in 1941 and connected Baku with Nakhchivan and Russia , Azerbaijan and parts of Armenia with Iran by rail until the early 1990s . As a result of the Karabakh conflict , it is now interrupted west of Horadiz . From this line branches off in Şirvan a short branch line to Hacıqabul (formerly Qazı Məmm sod , Russian Kasi-Magommed , that is also the name of the station). Stage, the routes to Shirvan 1971-1979 were electrified .
Town twinning
Şirvan has a partnership with the Kazakh port city of Atyrau on the Caspian Sea .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Population by sex, economic and administrative regions, urban settlements of the Republic of Azerbaijan at the beginning of the 2014 ( Memento from July 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Azərbaycan Respublikasının Dövlət Statistika Komitəsi (State Statistics Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan)
- ↑ One of Azerbaijani Big Cities to be renamed ( Memento of the original from July 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c Şirvan on the website of the Regional Development Center in Azerbaijan (English)
- ↑ Google Maps. Retrieved April 2, 2018 .
- ^ Azerbaijan - Road numbering systems. Retrieved April 2, 2018 .
- ↑ Relation: Europastraße 60 (20869) | OpenStreetMap. Retrieved April 2, 2018 .
- ^ Neil Robinson: World Rail Atlas. Vol. 8: The Middle East and Caucasus . ISBN 954-12-0128-8 .
- ↑ Басты | Атырау облысы әкімдігінің ресми интернет ресурсы. Retrieved April 2, 2018 .