Yardımlı

Yardımlı (also, Iardymly, Yardymli, and Yardymly) is a city in and the capital of the Yardymli Rayon of Azerbaijan.

Yardımlı
Coat of arms
Yardımlı
Coordinates: 38°55′14″N 48°14′14″E
Country Azerbaijan
RayonYardymli
Elevation
1,068 m (3,504 ft)
Population
 (2020)
  Total7,623
Time zoneUTC+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

  1. Кавказский календарь на 1915 год. Отдел статистический. Tbilisi. p. 214.
  2. "Всесоюзная перепись населения 1979 г. Численность городского населения союзных республик (кроме РСФСР), их территориальных единиц, городских поселений и городских районов по полу". Демоскоп Weekly.
  3. 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.
  4. THE STATE STATISTICAL COMMITTEE OF THE REPUBLIC OF AZERBAIJAN


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