Qobustan (settlement)

Qobustan

State :

Azerbaijan

City with rayon status:

Baku

District:

Qaradağ

Coordinates :

40 ° 5 ' N , 49 ° 24' E Coordinates: 40 ° 5 '0 " N , 49 ° 24' 20" E

Height :

15 m below sea level

Residents :

16,200 (2014)

Time zone :

AZT ( UTC + 4 )

Telephone code :

(+994) 12

Postal code :

AZ1080

License plate :

10, 90

Community type:

Settlement (qəsəbə)

Qobustan

Qobustan (also Gobustan, from Russian Гобустан ) is a settlement (qəsəbə) in Azerbaijan .

The settlement should not be confused with the small town of the same name (until 2008 Mərəzə ), the administrative seat of the Qobustan Rayon about 80 km west of Baku.

geography

Qobustan belongs to the Qaradağ district of the capital Baku and is located on the shores of the Caspian Sea about 50 km southwest of the city center. The settlement has 16,200 inhabitants (2014).

Immediately to the west is the Qobustan National Park .

history

The place received on April 5, 1951 the status of an urban-type settlement under the name Duwanny (Russian Дуванный ; Azerbaijani Duvannı, Cyrillic Дуванны), from the name of the station opened there in 1895 on the Poti – Baku railway . Since May 10, 1972, the settlement has been given its current name after the name of the archaeological site (today's national park) and the entire area southwest of Baku. The name of the station has also been changed accordingly.

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)
^ A. Archangelʹskij, V. Archangelʹskij: Želesnodorožnye stancii SSSR . tape I . Transport, Moscow 1981, p. 148 (Russian; railway stations of the USSR ).
^ SA Melʹnikov, Č. G. Ibragimov: Azerbajdžanskaja SSR. Administrativno-territorial ʹ noe delenie na 1 janvarja 1977 goda . 4th edition. Baku 1979 (Russian; online ).
^ Neil Robinson: World Rail Atlas . Vol. 8: The Middle East and Caucasus . 2006. ISBN 954-12-0128-8 , plate 59.

[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)

[stancii-2] A. Archangelʹskij, V. Archangelʹskij: Želesnodorožnye stancii SSSR . tape I . Transport, Moscow 1981, p. 148 (Russian; railway stations of the USSR ).

[3] SA Melʹnikov, Č. G. Ibragimov: Azerbajdžanskaja SSR. Administrativno-territorial ʹ noe delenie na 1 janvarja 1977 goda . 4th edition. Baku 1979 (Russian; online ).

[4] Neil Robinson: World Rail Atlas . Vol. 8: The Middle East and Caucasus . 2006. ISBN 954-12-0128-8 , plate 59.