Sharur
Şərur
City & Municipality
Sharur from air
Sharur from air
Sharur is located in Azerbaijan
Sharur
Sharur
Coordinates: 39°32′45″N 44°58′20″E / 39.54583°N 44.97222°E / 39.54583; 44.97222
Country Azerbaijan
Autonomous republicNakhchivan
DistrictSharur
Population
 (2020)[1]
 • Total7,400
Time zoneUTC+4 (AZT)
Area code+994 892

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.

History

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 uezd of the Erivan Governorate and was known as 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]

Demographics

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.[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 groups of Sharur (1939–1979)
Ethnic
group		 1897[10] 1939[11] 1959[12] 1970[13] 1979[14]
Number % Number % Number % Number % Number %
Azerbaijanis 597 68.86 351 53.26 1,214 88.16 2,125 93.12 3,131 95.31
Russians 28 3.23 129 19.58 81 5.88 106 4.65 112 3.41
Ukrainians 2 0.23 11 1.67 0 0.00
Armenians 132 15.22 129 19.58 63 4.58 29 1.27 27 0.82
Kurds 90 10.38 2 0.30 0 0.00 13 0.57 7 0.21
Other 18 2.08 37 5.61 19 1.38 9 0.39 8 0.24
TOTAL 867 100.00 659 100.00 1,377 100.00 2,282 100.00 3,285 100.00

Culture

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.[15]

Notable natives

Twin Towns

References

  1. 1 2 "Population of Azerbaijan". stat.gov.az. State Statistics Committee. Retrieved 22 February 2021.
  2. ↑ Bartold, Vasily (1962). Книга моего деда Коркута. Moscow: Academy of Sciences of the USSR. ISBN 978-5-02-026519-6. Retrieved 2 May 2022.
  3. ↑ "Баш-Норашен". Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary: In 86 Volumes (82 Volumes and 4 Additional Volumes). St. Petersburg. 1890–1907.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. ↑ Поспелов, Евгений Михайлович (1998). Географические названия мира: Топонимический словарь: Свыше 5 000 единиц (in Russian). Moscow: «Русские словари». p. 160. ISBN 5-89216-029-7.
  5. ↑ Шарур (Ильичёвск), Great Soviet Encyclopedia
  6. ↑ "Шарур что такое sharur значение слова, Словарь географических названий".
  7. ↑ Makhmourian, Gayane. "Collection of Papers Relating to the Armenian District of Nakhijevan (1918-1920) from the U.S. Department of State and the National Archives of Armenia": 14. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  8. ↑ "Демоскоп Weekly - Приложение. Справочник статистических показателей". www.demoscope.ru. Retrieved 2022-07-20.
  9. ↑ Кавказский календарь на 1910 год [Caucasian calendar for 1910] (in Russian) (65th ed.). Tiflis: Tipografiya kantselyarii Ye.I.V. na Kavkaze, kazenny dom. 1910. Archived from the original on 15 March 2022.
  10. ↑ "Демоскоп Weekly - Приложение. Справочник статистических показателей". www.demoscope.ru. Retrieved 2022-11-27.
  11. ↑ "Демоскоп Weekly - Приложение. Всесоюзная перепись населения 1939 года". www.demoscope.ru. Retrieved 2022-11-27.
  12. ↑ Ethno-Caucasus, Этнодемография Кавказа: Население Норашенского района (по переписи 1959-го года)
  13. ↑ Ethno-Caucasus, Этнодемография Кавказа: Население Ильичевского района (по переписи 1970-го года)
  14. ↑ Ethno-Caucasus, Этнодемография Кавказа: Население Ильичевского района (по переписи 1979-го года)
  15. ↑ Шопен, Иван (1852). Исторический памятник состояния Армянской области в эпоху ее присоединения к Российской империи (in Russian). Saint Petersburg. pp. 323–324. ISBN 978-5-518-09340-9. Retrieved 2 May 2022.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  16. ↑ Волошин Артур Владимирович (in Russian). Heroes of the country.
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