Pirallahı is a village in the municipality of Gürgən-Pirallahı in the Khazar raion of Baku,

Azerbaijan Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , also sometimes officially called the Azerbaijan Republic is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is a part of t ...

. It is located on Pirallahi Island. As of 1968, the town had a population of 14,400. The former name of this place was ''Artyom'', named after

Fyodor Sergeyev Fyodor Andreyevich Sergeyev (, ; March 19, 1883 – July 24, 1921), better known as Comrade Artyom (), was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet politician, agitator, and journalist. He was a close friend of Sergei Kirov and Joseph Stali ...

(''nom de guerre'' Artem or Artyom). Previously, it was named in honor of the

26 Baku Commissars The 26 Baku Commissars were Bolshevik and Left Socialist Revolutionary (SR) members of the Baku Commune. The commune was established in the city of Baku, which was then the capital of the briefly independent Azerbaijan Democratic Republic, and ...

. Pirallahı is a port town, and oil and gas are important to the local economy. The rising waters of the

Caspian Sea The Caspian Sea is the world's largest inland body of water, often described as the world's largest lake or a full-fledged sea. An endorheic basin, it lies between Europe and Asia; east of the Caucasus, west of the broad steppe of Central Asia ...

has prompted the removal of a significant portion of the population.

Notable natives

* Sergey Murtuzaliyev — National Hero of Azerbaijan.

References

Populated places in Baku {{Baku-geo-stub