Sharur

{{Short description|City + Municipality in Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan}}

{{Infobox settlement

| name = Sharur

| settlement_type = City & Municipality

| native_name = Şərur

| image_skyline = Sharur view from plane.jpg

| image_caption = Sharur from air

| pushpin_map = Azerbaijan

| pushpin_mapsize = 300

| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = {{flag|Azerbaijan}}

| subdivision_type1 = Autonomous republic

| subdivision_name1 = Nakhchivan

| subdivision_type2 = District

| subdivision_name2 = Sharur

| population_as_of = 2020

| population_total = 7,400

| population_footnotes = {{cite web |url=https://www.stat.gov.az/source/demoqraphy/ap/az/population_2020.zip |title=Population of Azerbaijan |date= |website=stat.gov.az |publisher=State Statistics Committee |access-date=22 February 2021 |quote=}}

| timezone = AZT

| utc_offset = +4

| coordinates = {{coord|39|32|45|N|44|58|20|E|region:AZ|display=inline}}

| area_code = +994 892

}}

Sharur ({{Langx|az|Şərur}} {{small|{{Audio|Az-Sharur.ogg|(listen)|help=no}}}}) 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.{{cite book |last1=Bartold |first1=Vasily |author1-link=Vasily Bartold |title=Книга моего деда Коркута |date=1962 |publisher=Academy of Sciences of the USSR |location=Moscow |url=http://www.vostlit.info/Texts/rus9/Korkut/frametext10.htm |isbn=978-5-02-026519-6 |access-date=2 May 2022}} 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.{{ВТ-ЭСБЕ|Баш-Норашен}}

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.{{cite book|first=Евгений Михайлович |last=Поспелов |title=Географические названия мира: Топонимический словарь: Свыше 5 000 единиц |language=ru |location=Moscow |publisher=«Русские словари» |date=1998 |page=160 |isbn=5-89216-029-7}}Шарур (Ильичёвск), Great Soviet Encyclopedia 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.{{Cite web|url=https://znachenieslova.ru/slovar/geo/sharur|title=Шарур что такое sharur значение слова, Словарь географических названий}}{{Better source needed|reason=The current source is insufficiently reliable (WP:NOTRS).|date=December 2023}}

Demographics

Until 1905, Sharur, then known as Bashnorashen ({{Langx|ru|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 1905–1906.{{Cite journal |last=Makhmourian |first=Gayane |title=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 |url=https://www.academia.edu/36212600 |journal= |pages=14}} In 1897, Bashnorashen, which had the status of a selo ("rural locality"), had a population of 867 consisting of 597 Tatars and 132 Armenians.{{Cite web |title=Демоскоп Weekly - Приложение. Справочник статистических показателей. |url=http://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/emp_lan_97_uezd.php?reg=586 |access-date=2022-07-20 |website=www.demoscope.ru}} In the early 20th century, the settlement had a predominantly Tatar population of 749.{{Cite book |url=https://www.prlib.ru/item/417314 |title=Кавказский календарь на 1910 год |publisher=Tipografiya kantselyarii Ye.I.V. na Kavkaze, kazenny dom |year=1910 |edition=65th |publication-place=Tiflis |pages= |language=Russian |trans-title=Caucasian calendar for 1910 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220315211448/https://www.prlib.ru/item/417314 |archive-date=15 March 2022}}

According to official information from The State Statistics Committee of Azerbaijan, on January 1, 2020, the city had a population of about 7,400.

class="wikitable" style="text-align: right;" \|+Ethnic groups of Sharur (1939–1979)
style="background:#e0e0e0;" ! rowspan="2" \| Ethnic group ! colspan="2" \|1897{{Cite web \|title=Демоскоп Weekly - Приложение. Справочник статистических показателей. \|url=http://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/emp_lan_97_uezd.php?reg=586 \|access-date=2022-11-27 \|website=www.demoscope.ru}} ! colspan="2" \| 1939{{Cite web \|title=Демоскоп Weekly - Приложение. Всесоюзная перепись населения 1939 года \|url=http://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/ussr_nac_39_ra.php?reg=757 \|access-date=2022-11-27 \|website=www.demoscope.ru}} ! colspan="2" \| 1959Ethno-Caucasus, Этнодемография Кавказа: [http://www.ethno-kavkaz.narod.ru/sharur59.html Население Норашенского района (по переписи 1959-го года)] ! colspan="2" \| 1970Ethno-Caucasus, Этнодемография Кавказа: [http://www.ethno-kavkaz.narod.ru/sharur70.html Население Ильичевского района (по переписи 1970-го года)] ! colspan="2" \| 1979Ethno-Caucasus, Этнодемография Кавказа: [http://www.ethno-kavkaz.narod.ru/sharur79.html Население Ильичевского района (по переписи 1979-го года)]
style="background:#e0e0e0;" !Number !% !Number !% !Number !% !Number !% !Number !%
style="text-align:left;" \| Azerbaijanis \|597 \|68.86 \| 351 \| 53.26 \| 1,214 \| 88.16 \| 2,125 \| 93.12 \| 3,131 \| 95.31
style="text-align:left;" \| Russians \|28 \|3.23 \| 129 \| 19.58 \| 81 \| 5.88 \| rowspan="2" \| 106 \| rowspan="2" \| 4.65 \| rowspan="2" \| 112 \| rowspan="2" \| 3.41
style="text-align:left;" \| Ukrainians \|2 \|0.23 \| 11 \| 1.67 \|0 \|0.00
style="text-align:left;" \| Armenians \|132 \|15.22 \| 129 \| 19.58 \| 63 \| 4.58 \| 29 \| 1.27 \| 27 \| 0.82
style="text-align:left;" \| Kurds \|90 \|10.38 \|2 \|0.30 \|0 \|0.00 \|13 \|0.57 \|7 \|0.21
style="text-align:left;" \| Other \|18 \|2.08 \| 37 \| 5.61 \| 19 \| 1.38 \| 9 \| 0.39 \| 8 \| 0.24
style="text-align:left;" \| TOTAL !867 !100.00 ! 659 ! 100.00 ! 1,377 ! 100.00 ! 2,282 ! 100.00 ! 3,285 ! 100.00

class="wikitable" style="text-align: right;"

|+Ethnic groups of Sharur (1939–1979)

style="background:#e0e0e0;"

! rowspan="2" | Ethnic
group

! colspan="2" |1897{{Cite web |title=Демоскоп Weekly - Приложение. Справочник статистических показателей. |url=http://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/emp_lan_97_uezd.php?reg=586 |access-date=2022-11-27 |website=www.demoscope.ru}}

! colspan="2" | 1939{{Cite web |title=Демоскоп Weekly - Приложение. Всесоюзная перепись населения 1939 года |url=http://www.demoscope.ru/weekly/ssp/ussr_nac_39_ra.php?reg=757 |access-date=2022-11-27 |website=www.demoscope.ru}}

! colspan="2" | 1959Ethno-Caucasus, Этнодемография Кавказа: [http://www.ethno-kavkaz.narod.ru/sharur59.html Население Норашенского района (по переписи 1959-го года)]

! colspan="2" | 1970Ethno-Caucasus, Этнодемография Кавказа: [http://www.ethno-kavkaz.narod.ru/sharur70.html Население Ильичевского района (по переписи 1970-го года)]

! colspan="2" | 1979Ethno-Caucasus, Этнодемография Кавказа: [http://www.ethno-kavkaz.narod.ru/sharur79.html Население Ильичевского района (по переписи 1979-го года)]

style="background:#e0e0e0;"

!Number

style="text-align:left;" | Azerbaijanis

|597

|68.86

| 351

| 53.26

| 1,214

| 88.16

| 2,125

| 93.12

| 3,131

| 95.31

style="text-align:left;" | Russians

|28

|3.23

| 129

| 19.58

| 81

| 5.88

| rowspan="2" | 106

| rowspan="2" | 4.65

| rowspan="2" | 112

| rowspan="2" | 3.41

style="text-align:left;" | Ukrainians

|0.23

| 11

| 1.67

|0.00

style="text-align:left;" | Armenians

|132

|15.22

| 129

| 19.58

| 63

| 4.58

| 29

| 1.27

| 27

| 0.82

style="text-align:left;" | Kurds

|90

|10.38

|0.30

|0.00

|13

|0.57

|0.21

style="text-align:left;" | Other

|18

|2.08

| 37

| 5.61

| 19

| 1.38

| 9

| 0.39

| 8

| 0.24

style="text-align:left;" | 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.{{cite book |last1=Шопен |first1=Иван |title=Исторический памятник состояния Армянской области в эпоху ее присоединения к Российской империи |date=1852 |location=Saint Petersburg |isbn=978-5-518-09340-9 |pages=323–324 |url=https://www.prlib.ru/item/416591 |access-date=2 May 2022 |language=ru}}

Notable natives

Arthur Voloshin – Hero of Russia.{{cite news | script-title=ru:Волошин Артур Владимирович

|publisher=Heroes of the country| url=http://www.warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?Hero_id=7056| language=ru}}

Adil Aliyev – President of the Azerbaijan Kickboxing Federation and a member of the National Assembly of Azerbaijan.

Twin Towns

{{flagicon|Turkey}} Iğdır, Turkey

References

External links

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{{cite web |title=Şərur rayonu - Azərbaycan |url=http://www.azerbaijans.com/content_1527_az.html |website=www.azerbaijans.com |access-date=2 May 2022}}

Category:Populated places in Sharur District

Category:Erivan Governorate