Sharur

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City + Municipality in Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan

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::summary City + Municipality in Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan ::

::data[format=table title="Infobox settlement"]

Field	Value
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	Azerbaijan
subdivision_type1	Autonomous republic
subdivision_name1	Nakhchivan
subdivision_type2	District
subdivision_name2	Sharur
population_as_of	2020
population_total	7,400
population_footnotes
timezone	AZT
utc_offset	+4
coordinates
area_code	+994 892
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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. 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 Armenian element of the population was "eliminated" during the Armenian–Tatar massacres of 1905–1906. 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 State Statistics Committee of Azerbaijan, on January 1, 2020, the city had a population of about 7,400. ::data[format=table title="Ethnic groups of Sharur (1939–1979)"] | Ethnic group | 1897 | 1939 | 1959 | 1970 | 1979 | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | Number | % | TOTAL | 867 | 100.00 | 659 | 100.00 | 1,377 | 100.00 | 2,282 | 100.00 | 3,285 | 100.00 | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | 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 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ::

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.

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

Turkey Iğdır, Turkey

References

"Population of Azerbaijan". [[State Statistics Committee]].
(1962). "Книга моего деда Коркута". Academy of Sciences of the USSR.
{{ВТ-ЭСБЕ. Баш-Норашен
Поспелов, Евгений Михайлович. (1998). "Географические названия мира: Топонимический словарь: Свыше 5 000 единиц". «Русские словари».
Шарур (Ильичёвск), [[Great Soviet Encyclopedia]]
"Шарур что такое sharur значение слова, Словарь географических названий".
Makhmourian, Gayane. "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".
"Демоскоп Weekly - Приложение. Справочник статистических показателей.".
(1910). "Кавказский календарь на 1910 год". Tipografiya kantselyarii Ye.I.V. na Kavkaze, kazenny dom.
"Демоскоп Weekly - Приложение. Справочник статистических показателей.".
"Демоскоп Weekly - Приложение. Всесоюзная перепись населения 1939 года".
Ethno-Caucasus, Этнодемография Кавказа: [http://www.ethno-kavkaz.narod.ru/sharur59.html Население Норашенского района (по переписи 1959-го года)]
Ethno-Caucasus, Этнодемография Кавказа: [http://www.ethno-kavkaz.narod.ru/sharur70.html Население Ильичевского района (по переписи 1970-го года)]
Ethno-Caucasus, Этнодемография Кавказа: [http://www.ethno-kavkaz.narod.ru/sharur79.html Население Ильичевского района (по переписи 1979-го года)]
(1852). "Исторический памятник состояния Армянской области в эпоху ее присоединения к Российской империи".

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