Sharur

Sharur (Azerbaijani: Şərur (listen)) is the capital town and most populous municipality of Sharur District in Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic. It is located 66 km in the north-west from Nakhchivan, on the Sharur plain. It has a population of 6,964 people.

For other uses, see Sharur (disambiguation).
Sharur
Şərur
City & Municipality
Sharur from air
Sharur
Coordinates: 39°32′45″N 44°58′20″E
Country Azerbaijan
Autonomous republicNakhchivan
DistrictSharur
Population
 (2008)[1]
 • Total6,964
Time zoneUTC+4 (AZT)
Area code(s)+994 892

It was the administrative center of Sharur-Daralagez Uyezd of the Russian Empire (1870-1917).[2]

The town had different names throughout history, including the Armenian names Bashnorashen, Norashen (1930–1964), the Russian names Iliich (Ильич) and Il'ichëvsk (Ильичёвск) (1964–1991) after Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.

Population

According to official information of The State Statistical Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan, on January 1, 2013, the city had a population of about 7,000.[3]

Ethnic groups
Ethnic
group		 January 17–23, 1939.[4] January 15–22, 1959.[5] January 15–22, 1970.[6] January 17–24, 1979.[7]
Number  % Number  % Number  % Number  %
total 659 100.00 1 377 100.00 2 282 100.00 3 285 100.00
Azerbaijani 351 53.26 1 214 88.16 2 125 93.12 3 131 95.31
Russian and Ukrainian 140[8] 21.24 81[9] 5.88 106 4.65 112 3.41
Armenian 129 19.58 63 4.58 29 1.27 27 0.82
Kurd 2 0.30 ... ... 13 0.57 7 0.21
Georgian ... ... 1 0.07 2 0.09 1 0.03
Tatar ... ... ... ... 2 0.09 ... ...
Avar ... ... ... ... 1 0.04 ... ...
German 5 0.76 ... ... ... ... ... ...
Lezghin 5 0.76 ... ... ... ... ... ...
Jewish 1 0.15 ... ... ... ... ... ...
others 25 3.79 18 1.31 4 0.18 7 0.21

Transportation

Sharur railway station is the terminus of a local service from Nakhchivan.

Due to the closed border with Armenia, the line north toward Masis is unused as far as Yeraskh.

Sharur is visible using its previous Armenian name Norashen in this map of the Transcaucasus Railway.

Notable natives

Twin Towns

References
  1. World Gazetteer: Azerbaijan – World-Gazetteer.com
  2. Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
  3. The State Statistical Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan Archived 2016-12-27 at the Wayback Machine
  4. Ethno-Caucasus, Этнодемография Кавказа: Население Баш-Норашенского района (по переписи 1939-го года)
  5. Ethno-Caucasus, Этнодемография Кавказа: Население Норашенского района (по переписи 1959-го года)
  6. Ethno-Caucasus, Этнодемография Кавказа: Население Ильичевского района (по переписи 1970-го года)
  7. Ethno-Caucasus, Этнодемография Кавказа: Население Ильичевского района (по переписи 1979-го года)
  8. 129 of them were Russians, and Ukrainians were 11 persons.
  9. All of them were ethnic Russians.
  10. Волошин Артур Владимирович (in Russian). Heroes of the country.
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