Yevlax (city)

Yevlax
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State :	Azerbaijan
City with rayon status:	Yevlax
Coordinates :	40 ° 37 '  N , 47 ° 9'  E Coordinates: 40 ° 37 '0 "  N , 47 ° 9' 0"  E
Height :	12  m
Residents :	59,400 (2014)
Time zone :	AZT ( UTC + 4 )
Telephone code :	(+994) 2233
Postal code :	AZ6600
License plate :	66
Community type:	City (şəhər)

Yevlax , German also Jewlach (from Russian Евлах ; English transcription Yevlakh ) is a city in Azerbaijan .

geography

The city has district status and is itself surrounded by the Yevlax district ( rayon ) . In 2014, about 59,400 people lived in the city near the Kura River .

economy

The city is a major hub of the Azerbaijani railway . In Yevlax there are tobacco and silk processing plants and a large flour mill. There is also an airfield , but it is not used very much.

traffic

With the opening of the corresponding section of the oldest railway line in the country, the Poti – Baku railway , Yevlax was connected to the railway in 1883. The city's train station is now a branch station for the Yevlax – Balakan railway lines in the north and Yevlax – Şuşi in the south. The latter route is only operated as far as Bərdə , since its southern end is in Nagorno-Karabakh .

Culture

Yevlax has a theater and a recently built mosque .

Personalities

• Pawel Alexandrowitsch Florensky (1882 to 1937), religious philosopher, theologian, mathematician and art scholar
• Arngolt Bekker (1935 to 2013), German-Russian entrepreneur

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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. ↑ ^{a b} azerb.com about city and rayon
3. ^ Neil Robinson: World Rail Atlas . Vol. 8: The Middle East and Caucasus . 2006. ISBN 954-12-0128-8 , Taf. 49, 59.