Yardımlı
Yardımlı (also, Iardymly, Yardymli, and Yardymly) is a city in and the capital of the Yardymli Rayon of Azerbaijan.
Yardımlı | |
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| Coordinates: 38°55′14″N 48°14′14″E | |
| Country |  |
| Rayon | Yardymli |
| Elevation | 1,068 m (3,504 ft) |
| Population (2012) | |
| • Total | 6,800 |
| Time zone | UTC+4 (AZT) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+5 (AZT) |
It is in the Talysh Mountains, a northwestern subrange of the Alborz (Elburz) mountain range.
It is located about 286 km to the south from Baku and 76 km to the south-west from Masallı.
According to “Caucasian calendar” of 1915, 145 people, mainly the Azerbaijanis shown in the calendar as Tatars, lived in Yardimli village of Lankaran Uyezd of Baku Governorate.[1]
According to a census of 1979, 3114 people and according to a census of 1989,[2] 3438 people[3] lived in Yardimli. According to a census of 2010, the city's population consists of 6700 people.[4]
During the Soviet times it had a status of township. At those times, a carpet-weaving factory, which doesn't work at present, functioned in Yardimli. There is a museum, mosque and military memorial in the city.
References
- Кавказский календарь на 1915 год. Отдел статистический. Tbilisi. p. 214.
- "Всесоюзная перепись населения 1979 г. Численность городского населения союзных республик (кроме РСФСР), их территориальных единиц, городских поселений и городских районов по полу". Демоскоп Weekly.
- Демоскоп Weekly - Электронная версия бюллетеня Население и общество. Всесоюзная перепись населения 1989 г. (in Russian). Институт демографии Государственного университета - Высшей школы экономики. Archived from the original on 2012-01-18. Retrieved 2010-09-22.
- THE STATE STATISTICAL COMMITTEE OF THE REPUBLIC OF AZERBAIJAN
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