Sharur ( ) is a city in the

Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic The Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic (, ) is a landlocked country, landlocked Enclave and exclave, exclave of the Azerbaijan, Republic of Azerbaijan. The region covers Official portal of Nakhchivan Autonomous RepublicNakhchivan Autonomous Republi ...

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. It is the administrative centre of the

Sharur District Sharur District () is one of the 7 districts of the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic of Azerbaijan. The district borders the districts of Kangarli, Sadarak, as well as the Vayots Dzor and Ararat provinces of Armenia and the West Azerbaijan Prov ...

. 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

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, the place ''Sheryuguz'' is mentioned, which, according to a Russian orientalist and historian

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, is a distorted form of Sharur. 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''. 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. 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.

Demographics

Until 1905, Sharur, then known as ''Bashnorashen'' (), 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

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element of the population was "eliminated" during the

Armenian–Tatar massacres of 1905–1906 The Armenian–Tatar massacres (also known as the Armenian–Tartar war, the Armenian–Muslim war, Armenian–Azerbaijani war) was the bloody inter-ethnic confrontation between Armenians and Caucasian Tatars (later known as Azerbaijanis) thro ...

. In 1897, Bashnorashen, which had the status of a ''selo'' ("rural locality"), had a population of 867 consisting of 597 Tatars and 132 Armenians. In the early 20th century, the settlement had a predominantly Tatar population of 749. According to official information from The

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of Azerbaijan, on January 1, 2020, the city had a population of about 7,400.

Culture

Sharur has two parks, a stadium, a museum, a mosque, a monument-memorial to those killed in the

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and a cinema.

Notable natives

* Arthur Voloshin – Hero of Russia. * Adil Aliyev – President of the Azerbaijan Kickboxing Federation and a member of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan.

Twin Towns

* Iğdır,

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References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sharur Populated places in Sharur District Erivan Governorate