Mingəçevir

Mingəçevir

coat of arms

State :

Azerbaijan

City with rayon status:

Mingəçevir

Founded :

1948

Coordinates :

40 ° 46 ' N , 47 ° 3' E Coordinates: 40 ° 46 '12 " N , 47 ° 2' 56" E

Height :

35 m

Residents :

104,500 (2018)

Time zone :

AZT ( UTC + 4 )

Telephone code :

(+994) 2427

Postal code :

AZ4500

License plate :

45

Community type:

City (şəhər)

Mingəçevir , German also Mingachevir (formerly Russian Мингечаур Mingetschaur ), is the fourth largest city in Azerbaijan with its population of 104,500 (as of 2014) . Mingəçevir is the fourth city in the country in terms of its economic potential and population and is a center for energy and industry, science, education and culture.

history

Mingəçevir was founded in 1948 on the Poti – Baku railway line and initially built primarily by German prisoners of war. In the city there was a prisoner of war camp 444 for German prisoners of war of the Second World War .

economy

Mingəçevir is a purely industrial city, which essentially consists of prefabricated housing in the Soviet style. It is also known as the city of energy workers, as there are two large power plants in it; a hydropower plant on the Mingəçevir reservoir of the Kura and a thermal power plant powered by natural gas.

traffic

The city has a train station on the Poti – Baku railway line.

Culture

The city is home to the football club Kür-Nur Mingəçevir , Azerbaijani runner-up from 2004.

Town twinning

Russia Tolyatti , Russia
Turkey Gölbaşı , Ankara Province , Turkey
Belarus Polatsk , Belarus

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)
↑ Maschke, Erich (ed.): On the history of the German prisoners of war of the Second World War. Verlag Ernst and Werner Gieseking, Bielefeld 1962–1977.

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[1] 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)

[2] Maschke, Erich (ed.): On the history of the German prisoners of war of the Second World War. Verlag Ernst and Werner Gieseking, Bielefeld 1962–1977.