Sharur Şərur | |
|---|---|
City & Municipality | |
 Sharur from air | |
  Sharur | |
| Coordinates:39°32′45″N44°58′20″E / 39.54583°N 44.97222°E /39.54583; 44.97222 | |
| Country |  Azerbaijan |
| Autonomous republic | Nakhchivan |
| District | Sharur |
| Population | |
• Total | 7,400 |
| Time zone | UTC+4 (AZT) |
| Area code | +994 892 |
Sharur (Azerbaijani:Şərur(listen)ⓘ) is a city in theNakhchivan Autonomous Republic ofAzerbaijan. It is the administrative centre of theSharur District. The city is located 66 km northwest ofNakhchivan city, on the Sharur plain.
In a manuscript of the 16th-centuryOghuz heroic epicBook of Dede Korkut stored inDresden, the placeSheryuguz is mentioned, which, according to a Russian orientalist and historianVasily Bartold, is a distorted form of Sharur.[2] In the Russian Empire, the town was the administrative centre of theSharur-Daralayaz uezd of theErivan Governorate and was known asBash-Norashen.[3]
In 1948, the city received the status of an urban-type settlement, and on 26 May 1964, it was renamed fromNorashen toIlyichevsk, afterVladimir Ilyich Lenin.[4][5] In 1981, Ilyichevsk received the status of a city, and in 1991 the city was renamedSharur according to the historical name of the area.[6][better source needed]
Until 1905, Sharur, then known asBashnorashen (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. TheArmenian element of the population was "eliminated" during theArmenian–Tatar massacres of 1905–1906.[7] In 1897, Bashnorashen, which had the status of aselo ("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 TheState Statistics Committee of Azerbaijan, on January 1, 2020, the city had a population of about 7,400.[1]
| 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 |
Sharur has two parks, a stadium, a museum, a mosque, a monument-memorial to those killed in theFirst Nagorno-Karabakh war and a cinema.[15]
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