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Sabunçu, Baku

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Country
  
Azerbaijan

Raion
  
Sabunçu

Population
  
22,344 (2008)

City
  
Baku

Time zone
  
AZT (UTC+4)

Rayon
  
Baku

Sabunçu, Baku

Weather
  
9°C, Wind NW at 34 km/h, 79% Humidity

Sabunçu (also, Sabunchi and Sabunchy) is a settlement and municipality in Baku, Azerbaijan. It has a population of 22,344.

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History

Until the beginning of the 20th century, the Sabunçu region was producing 35 percent of Baku's oil. It was also the place where the first, Baku-Sabunchu electrified railway system in USSR, built by Chingiz Ildyrym in 1924 was established.

Geography

The town, seat of Sabunçu raion, is located in the north-eastern suburb of the city of Baku and is part of its metropolitan area. It is 12 km far from Baku International Airport "Heydar Aliyev".

Notable natives

  • Nikolai Baibakov — People's Commissar of the USSR Oil Industry (1944–1946), Oil Minister of the USSR (1948–1955), Hero of Socialist Labor.
  • Richard Sorge — one of the best-known Soviet intelligence officers of the Second World War, Hero of the Soviet Union.

    • References

    Sabunçu, Baku Wikipedia
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