Serhetabat
Serhetabat
Gushgy (1885-1999) | |
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UTC+5 (TMT) |
Serhetabat (formerly Gushgy) (
Etymology
The name of the city is a Turkmen borrowing from Persian سرحدآباد, consisting of two words: سرحد (sarhadd) meaning "border" and آباد (ābād) meaning "inhabited place" (commonly used as a Persian suffix for naming places, such as Khorramabad, a city in Iran, and Ashgabat, the capital of Turkmenistan). The name of the city corresponds to its geographic location on the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan border. A historical part of the Iranian city Karaj shares the same name, Sarhadabad. Gushgy is a Turkmenized form of the Persian-Afghan word kushk (کوشک), a term referring to mountain forts. In 1885 after taking the Panjdeh oasis Russian troops constructed a fort on the site of present-day Serhetabat and named it for the village of Kush in Afghanistan.[3] The Turkmenistan government changed the name to Serhetabat on 29 December 1999 by Parliamentary Resolution HM-67.[4]
Overview
In 1885, Serhetabat and the surrounding region were seized from
The settlement was founded in 1890 as a Russian military outpost. A local rail line branching from
A point south of the city is the southernmost point of Turkmenistan and used to be the southernmost point of the
In 1988, Afghan Mujahideen
Transport
The
Climate
Serhetabat has a semi-arid climate (Köppen climate classification BSk), with cool winters and very hot summers. Rainfall is moderate in winter and spring, but summer is extremely dry.
Climate data for Serhetabat (1991-2020, extremes 1904-present) | |||||||||||||
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Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Record high °C (°F) | 27.1 (80.8) |
31.0 (87.8) |
37.6 (99.7) |
37.8 (100.0) |
42.3 (108.1) |
47.6 (117.7) |
45.3 (113.5) |
43.5 (110.3) |
43.4 (110.1) |
38.6 (101.5) |
34.0 (93.2) |
31.5 (88.7) |
47.6 (117.7) |
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) | 10.1 (50.2) |
11.7 (53.1) |
17.2 (63.0) |
23.6 (74.5) |
30.5 (86.9) |
35.5 (95.9) |
37.3 (99.1) |
35.5 (95.9) |
30.8 (87.4) |
24.3 (75.7) |
16.9 (62.4) |
11.7 (53.1) |
23.8 (74.8) |
Daily mean °C (°F) | 4.1 (39.4) |
5.6 (42.1) |
10.6 (51.1) |
16.4 (61.5) |
22.6 (72.7) |
27.6 (81.7) |
29.7 (85.5) |
27.4 (81.3) |
21.8 (71.2) |
15.3 (59.5) |
9.4 (48.9) |
5.4 (41.7) |
16.3 (61.4) |
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) | −0.5 (31.1) |
0.5 (32.9) |
5.2 (41.4) |
10.0 (50.0) |
14.5 (58.1) |
18.5 (65.3) |
20.3 (68.5) |
17.9 (64.2) |
12.6 (54.7) |
7.3 (45.1) |
3.4 (38.1) |
0.6 (33.1) |
9.2 (48.5) |
Record low °C (°F) | −33.8 (−28.8) |
−27.7 (−17.9) |
−19.6 (−3.3) |
−5.5 (22.1) |
−0.8 (30.6) |
4.1 (39.4) |
9.7 (49.5) |
5.5 (41.9) |
−3.7 (25.3) |
−10.5 (13.1) |
−19.0 (−2.2) |
−27.1 (−16.8) |
−33.8 (−28.8) |
Average precipitation mm (inches) | 48 (1.9) |
58 (2.3) |
70 (2.8) |
40 (1.6) |
20 (0.8) |
0.8 (0.03) |
0.7 (0.03) |
0.7 (0.03) |
0.4 (0.02) |
5 (0.2) |
26 (1.0) |
44 (1.7) |
314 (12.4) |
Average extreme snow depth cm (inches) | 2 (0.8) |
1 (0.4) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
1 (0.4) |
2 (0.8) |
Average rainy days | 7 | 9 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 52 |
Average snowy days | 5 | 6 | 2 | 0.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 1 | 3 | 17 |
Average relative humidity (%)
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74 | 73 | 71 | 62 | 43 | 28 | 25 | 25 | 30 | 43 | 58 | 71 | 50 |
Mean monthly sunshine hours | 126.5 | 128.5 | 166.6 | 230.2 | 320.9 | 360.3 | 388.7 | 366.5 | 319.2 | 263.0 | 163.9 | 137.9 | 2,972.1 |
Source 1: Pogoda.ru.net[11] | |||||||||||||
Source 2: NOAA[12]
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References
- ^ "Kushka, Turkmenistan". Falling Rain Global Gazetteer. Retrieved 1 February 2013.
- ^ "Постановление Меджлиса Милли Генгеша Туркменистана" (in Russian). Электронная газета «Золотой век». 10 November 2022.
- ^ Atanyýazow, Soltanşa (1980). Түркменистаның Географик Атларының Дүшүндиришли Сөзлүги [Explanatory Dictionary of Geographic Names in Turkmenistan]. Ashgabat: Ылым. p. 122.
- ^ Turkmenistan Geoname Changes
- ^ Clements, Frank. Conflict in Afghanistan: A Historical Encyclopedia. pp 198. Retrieved 2012-09-03.
- ^ "Russia's secret railroad: Unknown to the world, 220 miles of rails have been laid". The Deseret News. 1899-04-08.
- ^ USSR A Reference Book of Facts and Figures. London: Farleigh Press Ltd. 1956. p. 5 – via Internet Archive.
The extreme points on the mainland area as follows:{...}South: 35° 08' N. Lat. (south of Kushka)
- ^ "TRAIN SERVICE OPENS ON NEW TURKMEN-AFGHAN RAILWAY: SERHETABAT–TORGHUNDI". Turkmenistan Ministry of Foreign Affairs. February 24, 2018.
- ^ "Torghundi and the railway from Turkmenistan". Andrew Grantham.
- ^ Cuenca, Oliver (December 9, 2020). "Iran – Afghanistan railway ready for traffic". International Railway Journal.
- ^ "Weather and Climate-The Climate of Serhetabat" (in Russian). Weather and Climate (Погода и климат). Retrieved 18 March 2016.
- ^ "Climate Normals for Kuska". National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Retrieved 1 February 2023.