Gədəbəy (Rayon)

Location of Gədəbəys in Azerbaijan

Gədəbəy (also Gardabay , Russian Гедабек, Гедабекский район or Кедабек, Кедабекский район ) is a rayon in western Azerbaijan on the Armenian border. The capital of the district is the city of Gədəbəy .

The district of Arzwasch , an Armenian enclave that has been occupied by Azerbaijan since the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, borders the rayon .

geography

The rayon has an area of 1124 km². There are several mineral water springs in the district , the landscape belongs to the Lesser Caucasus . There are deposits of copper ore and uranium as well as marble .

population

In 2009, the rayon had 93,600 inhabitants. The population consists of over 99% Muslim Azerbaijanis , a minority belongs to the Christian-spiritualist religious community of the Molokans .

economy

The region is dominated by agriculture. Potatoes and fruit as well as wine and grain are grown and cattle is raised.

Gold has been mined in the region since the tsarist times . The copper mine in Kedabeg was bought in 1864 by the brothers Carl and Werner von Siemens , at the suggestion of their brother Walter, who was in charge of building the telegraph lines in the Caucasus. It was operated - overcoming some difficulties - as a private business separate from Siemens & Halske , at times under the personal management of the younger brothers Walter and Otto Siemens. The mechanical engineer Martin de la Sauce managed the copper smelter on site. Werner von Siemens visited Kedabeg three times in 1865, 1868 and 1890. He built his own smelting furnaces that ran on naphtha because the wood in the surrounding forests was running low despite reforestation. For this purpose, he had Mannesmann tubes laid, with which the naphtha delivered from Baku was pumped up to the high-lying mine. In this context, he participated in 1890 in the founding of the German-Austrian Mannesmannröhren-Werke AG in Berlin. The mining in Kedabeg has now been stopped.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Azerbaijan Development Gateway ( Memento of November 14, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) about the rayon
↑ Azerbaijani statistical office on population figures ( Memento of November 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
↑ Werner von Siemens: Memoirs at Zeno.org .
^ Website of the mining company

40.6 45.8Coordinates: 40 ° 36 ' N , 45 ° 48' E

[ADG-1] Azerbaijan Development Gateway ( Memento of November 14, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) about the rayon

[2] Azerbaijani statistical office on population figures ( Memento of November 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive )

[3] Werner von Siemens: Memoirs at Zeno.org .

[4] Website of the mining company