Sharur (Azerbaijani: Şərur (listen)) is a city in the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan. It is the administrative centre of the Sharur District. The city is located 66 km northwest of Nakhchivan city, on the Sharur plain.
Sharur
Şərur | |
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City & Municipality | |
![]() Sharur from air | |
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Coordinates: 39°32′45″N 44°58′20″E | |
Country | ![]() |
Autonomous republic | Nakhchivan |
District | Sharur |
Population (2020)[1] | |
• Total | 7.400 |
Time zone | UTC+4 (AZT) |
Area code | +994 892 |
In a manuscript of the 16th century Oghuz heroic epic Book of Dede Korkut stored in Dresden, the place Sheryuguz is mentioned, which, according to a Russian orientalist and historian Vasily Bartold, is a distorted form of Sharur.[2] In the Russian Empire, the town was the administrative centre of the Sharur-Daralayaz Uyezd of the Erivan Governorate and was called Bash-Norashen.[3]
In 1948, the city received the status of an urban-type settlement, and on 26 May 1964, it was renamed from Norashen to Ilyichevsk, after Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.[4][5] In 1981, Ilyichevsk received the status of a city, and in 1991 the city was renamed Sharur according to the historical name of the area.[6]
Until 1905, Sharur, then known as Bashnorashen (Russian: Башнорашен), was composed of 100 Armenian and 25 Tatar households, a Russian primary school, telegraph-office, and a police station. The population was engaged in gardening, cultivated cotton and rice. The Armenian element of the population was eliminated during the Armenian–Tatar massacres of 1905–1907.[7] In 1897, Bashnorashen, which had the status of a selo ("rural locality"), had a population of 867 consisting of 597 Tatars and 132 Armenians.[8] In the early 20th century, the settlement had a predominantly Tatar population of 749. The same statistics indicated the existence of an 'Armenian' Bashnorashen which may have been populated by Armenians exiled from the original town, it was known as Ulya-Norashen (Улья-Норашен) and had a predominaly Armenian population of 1,458.[9]
According to official information from The State Statistics Committee of Azerbaijan, on January 1, 2020, the city had a population of about 7,400.[1]
Ethnic group |
January 17–23, 1939.[10] | January 15–22, 1959.[11] | January 15–22, 1970.[12] | January 17–24, 1979.[13] | ||||
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Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | |
total | 659 | 100.00 | 1 377 | 100.00 | 2 282 | 100.00 | 3 285 | 100.00 |
Azerbaijani | 351 | 53.26 | 1 214 | 88.16 | 2 125 | 93.12 | 3 131 | 95.31 |
Russian and Ukrainian | 140[14] | 21.24 | 81[15] | 5.88 | 106 | 4.65 | 112 | 3.41 |
Armenian | 129 | 19.58 | 63 | 4.58 | 29 | 1.27 | 27 | 0.82 |
Kurd | 2 | 0.30 | ... | ... | 13 | 0.57 | 7 | 0.21 |
Georgian | ... | ... | 1 | 0.07 | 2 | 0.09 | 1 | 0.03 |
Tatar | ... | ... | ... | ... | 2 | 0.09 | ... | ... |
Avar | ... | ... | ... | ... | 1 | 0.04 | ... | ... |
German | 5 | 0.76 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |
Lezghin | 5 | 0.76 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |
Jewish | 1 | 0.15 | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... | ... |
others | 25 | 3.79 | 18 | 1.31 | 4 | 0.18 | 7 | 0.21 |
Sharur has two parks, a stadium, a museum, a mosque, a monument-memorial to those killed in the First Nagorno-Karabakh war and a cinema.[16]
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