Shamkir District
40°49′57″N 46°1′35″E / 40.83250°N 46.02639°E
Shamkir District | |
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UTC+4 (AZT) | |
Postal code | 5700 |
Website | shamkir-ih |
Shamkir District (
Overview
The district includes one city,
There are 59 large and middle-size schools, 53 pre-schools, 81 secondary education schools, 1 technical vocational establishments, 22 hospitals and healthcare offices, and 156 cultural establishments in the raion.
Statistics
General territory | 1660.00 km2 |
General area of the agricultural land | 1245.00 km2 |
Area of the land unfit for agricultural use | 415.00 km2 |
Area of the pastures for cattle-breeding | 827.00 km2 |
General area of the planted land | 388.00 km2 |
General area of the fruit gardens | 27.70 km2 |
Population
The population of the district is 192,900 people with 33.49% being urban and 66.51% living in the country. An estimated population density 113.49 person/km2. Men constitute 49.58% of the population, and women 50.42%. Children make up 11.26% of the population, while 33.18% of overall district population are residents below the age of 18, 57.86% are from 18 to 60 years of age. 5.79% have higher education, 56.1% have secondary education only. The number of refugees and IDPs from Nagorno-Karabakh conflict is 12,240 and 1,897, respectively.
History
In the Middle Ages, Arab and Persian sources mentioned the city name as Şəmkür (Shamkur), Turkish sources varied from Şəmkür (Shamkur) to Şəmkir (Shamkir). In his book on the history of Azerbaijan published in 1924 while he was in Istanbul, Zeynaloğlu argued that name of the city was translated as Şəms (Sun) - Kür (Rayed).
Jahangirov explained otherwise referring to Şəm (Bank of) - Kür (
Architecture monuments
Historic architectural monuments include 9th-12th century Shamkir city ruins, 9th-12th Shamkir bridge, 11th-12th century Shamkir fortress in
During archaeological excavations carried out by a joint Azerbaijani-German expedition since 2006, ruins of an ancient Achaemenid palace were discovered near Qaracəmirli.[3]
Among the modern built monuments are the Victory Complex built in 1975 in Şəmkir city, mosque in
Government and economy
The Shamkir district is one of the largest agrarian districts of the Republic of Azerbaijan, covers 1660.00 km2, and the population is estimated at 213400 according to the official registration data in 2017. The major part of the employed population works in agriculture, industry, construction, trade, and public services. The basis of the economy Shamkir is dependent on agriculture. Poultry raising, cattlebreeding and silkworm breeding are major branches of agriculture. Agricultural machinery production, grape processing plants, construction plants constitute a big part of the economy.
Industry
The industry of Shamkir region includes food, electricity and production of construction materials. The 8 out of 13 industrial enterprises were small businesses in 2016. “Sharg Ulduzu” LLC which has a capacity of 2000 tons of grape processing capacity, processes 9 varieties of wine products and also produces cognac alcohol from wine products. In the Shamkir district “AzAqro” LLC, a greenhouse complex, grows over two million roses in a year over 2.5 hectares land. Currently, the portfolio is composed of 14 varieties: Red Naomi, Myrna, Peach Avalanche, Avalanche, Candy Avalanche, WoW, Hot bubble, Be-bubble, White bubble, Alegria, Pany Lane, Luxor, Jumilia and Sweet Dolomite. Shamkirchay hydroelectric power station has 25 Megawatt power capacity and built in order to meet local electricity and irrigation water demands.[4][5][6][9][10]
2010 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | |
Number of operating enterprises total, unit | 27 | 24 | 20 | 17 | 25 | 23 |
Industrial product (actual price of the relevant year), thousand AZN | 44439 | 18171 | 17938 | 17969 | 25170 | 33687 |
Industrial product, relative to previous year, in percent (at comparable prices) | 111,7 | 75,8 | 91,3 | 85,3 | 146,2 | 118,8 |
Share of non-public sector in industrial product, in percent | 8,5 | 17,2 | 13,0 | 13,0 | 31,7 | 28,7 |
Remaining balance of finished goods for the year, thousand AZN | 257,0 | 128,2 | 115,3 | 65,6 | 50,6 | 74,5 |
Average number of employees - total | 948 | 891 | 1036 | 999 | 1093 | 1152 |
Average monthly salary of employees, AZN | 276,4 | 296,0 | 307,5 | 337,3 | 506,4 | 399,3 |
Availability of the main industrial and production assets (at the end of the year with the balance sheet) million, AZN | 171,8 | 155,3 | 156,9 | 160,8 | 1766 | 224,4 |
Production of basic types of products in natural expression: | ||||||
Wine, thousand dekaliter | 3,2 | 5,2 | 4,5 | - | 1,1 | - |
Cognac, a thousand dekaliter | 2,2 | 2,0 | 0,2 | - | - | - |
Electricity, million, kilowatt hour | 1575,0 | 887,6 | 803,3 | 755,5 | 917,9 | 1057,0 |
Flour, ton | 3602,0 | 4512,0 | 199,0 | 375,5 | 1470,0 | 6215,0 |
Soft drinks, min | 0,9 | - | - | - | 27,0 | - |
Lean fish and other meat, tons | 3,2 | - | - | - | - | - |
Limestone for construction, tons | 19951 | 31352 | 29214 | 29063 | 19523 | 12174 |
Construction sand, thousand tons | 22,3 | 19,7 | 24,6 | 9,7 | 7,0 | 10,7 |
Gravel, crushed stone, small river stone and flint stone, thousand tons | 32,2 | 56,3 | 54,4 | 31,0 | 50,5 | 34,7 |
Structural structures of ferrous metals, thousand manats | - | - | - | - | 3417 | 2522 |
Construction
2010 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | |
Putted into operation | ||||||
fixed assets, thousand manat | 33069,8 | 42832,6 | 54488,8 | 40659,4 | 800322,3 | 109594,3 |
residential buildings, total area, thousand sq. m | 57,9 | 60,5 | 61,0 | 62,8 | 58,1 | 39,3 |
individual houses from total buildings | 57,2 | 57,8 | 58,4 | 62,8 | 58,1 | 38,4 |
Investments into fixed capital, thousand AZN | 115023,4 | 269214,8 | 252545,2 | 162905,5 | 79297,7 | 96433,3 |
including: | ||||||
construction and installation works | 92672,1 | 233808,8 | 215271,5 | 140881,8 | 71522,6 | 85604,7 |
Number of construction organizations, units | 8 | 10 | 14 | 17 | 14 | 20 |
The number of employees working there | 126 | 137 | 163 | 152 | 112 | 234 |
Cost of construction works with own capabilities, thousand AZN | 4328,5 | 10760,6 | 11152,9 | 7882,2 | 5840,2 | 5299,4 |
Agriculture
Viticulture, grain growing, vegetable growing and livestock constitutes the basis of agriculture in Shamkir district.8. For the current year's harvest, in 14129 hectares of area grain were planted during autumn and spring in 2016. Its 8304 hectares were used to plant wheat, and 5777 hectares were for barley. High-quality vegetables such as tomatoes, cucumbers have been grown over the 906.7 ha greenhouse area in the district. There are total 5791 greenhouses which are heated by different sources: 285 natural gas, 637 of oil products, 2254 firewood and coal, 2811 are non-heated.[4][11]
2010 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | |
Total area of sown agricultural crops (ha) | ||||||
Cereals and cereal legumes | 19357 | 19450 | 24575 | 20938 | 20621 | 21012 |
including wheat | 12618 | 12643 | 16212 | 13178 | 10738 | 11757 |
Sugar beet | - | - | - | - | 49 | 1046 |
Sunflower for seed production | 414 | 590 | 592 | 917 | 872 | 968 |
Potato | 6357 | 6391 | 6397 | 6406 | 6455 | 6497 |
Vegetables | 6095 | 6152 | 6159 | 6164 | 6310 | 6317 |
viticulture | 244 | 252 | 254 | 256 | 258 | 259 |
Fruit and berry | 2940 | 2957 | 2968 | 2998 | 3123 | 3130 |
Grape | 509 | 526 | 526 | 537 | 554 | 556 |
Production of main crops (in all categories of farms), tons | ||||||
Cereals and cereal legumes | 72012 | 80916 | 100685 | 70496 | 78927 | 74949 |
including wheat | 45551 | 49903 | 64152 | 40110 | 37086 | 37819 |
Sugar beet | - | - | - | - | 1470 | 32885 |
Sunflower for seed production | 588 | 857 | 876 | 1536 | 1428 | 1660 |
Potato | 106556 | 107572 | 108350 | 108447 | 109130 | 113655 |
Vegetables | 118518 | 121928 | 121996 | 122082 | 127253 | 136769 |
viticulture | 5615 | 5742 | 5673 | 5752 | 5806 | 5866 |
Fruit and berry | 59877 | 59970 | 60203 | 60116 | 60160 | 60225 |
Grape | 21855 | 21910 | 21956 | 21964 | 22155 | 22165 |
Productivity (in all categories of farming), centner / ha | ||||||
Grain | 37,2 | 41,6 | 41,0 | 33,7 | 38,3 | 35,1 |
including wheat | 36,1 | 39,5 | 39,6 | 30,4 | 34,5 | 32,2 |
Sugar beet | - | - | - | - | 300 | 348 |
Sunflower for seed production | 15,0 | 14,9 | 14,8 | 16,8 | 17,0 | 17,0 |
Potato | 168 | 168 | 169 | 169 | 169 | 175 |
Vegetables | 185 | 189 | 190 | 190 | 194 | 210 |
viticulture | 230 | 228 | 223 | 225 | 225 | 227 |
Fruit and berry | 219,3 | 218,1 | 212,4 | 210,5 | 210,3 | 203,7 |
Grape | 195,5 | 255,2 | 258,5 | 256,6 | 261,4 | 260,5 |
Number of livestock (in total) | ||||||
cattle | 59735 | 60583 | 60993 | 61053 | 61249 | 61358 |
including cows and buffaloes | 28562 | 28904 | 29132 | 29190 | 29202 | 29295 |
Sheep and goats | 278453 | 282170 | 285408 | 288375 | 290618 | 298585 |
Birds | 518424 | 519447 | 923136 | 1021777 | 540200 | 531711 |
Bee Families, Unit | 7974 | 7792 | 7912 | 8238 | 8301 | 8469 |
Production of animal products, ton | ||||||
Meat | 5050 | 5276 | 5383 | 5613 | 5928 | 6114 |
Milk | 45027 | 47293 | 48769 | 51450 | 54608 | 56355 |
Eggs, thousand | 41183 | 41421 | 101983 | 135740 | 73015 | 41510 |
Wool (in physical weight) | 448 | 461 | 477 | 480 | 481 | 482 |
Sport
As of 2014, the city is hosting Shamkir Chess tournament in honour of the memory of the chess grandmaster Vugar Gashimov.[12]
Notable natives
- Ahmad Javad, writer, poet, author of National Anthem of Azerbaijan
- Farman Salmanov, famous Azerbaijani and Soviet geologist
- Fazil Mammadov, former Minister of Taxes of Azerbaijan Republic
- Mubariz Gurbanli, deputy chief of Yeni Azerbaijan Party.
- Minister of Defense of Azerbaijan
References
- ^ "İnzibati-ərazi vahidləri" (PDF). preslib.az. Retrieved 28 February 2021.
- ^ a b "Population of Azerbaijan". stat.gov.az. State Statistics Committee. Retrieved 22 February 2021.
- ^ Ancient Achaemenid palace discovered in Azerbaijan’s Shamkir. Azerbaijan Press Agency. 16 August 2016.
- ^ a b c "İqtisadiyyat | Azərbaycan Respublikası Şəmkir Rayon İcra Hakimiyyəti". shamkir-ih.gov.az.
- ^ a b "Company". Archived from the original on 2018-09-26. Retrieved 2018-09-25.
- ^ a b "Shamkir Poultry".
- ^ ""AzAgro" MMC".
- ^ "Ganja-Gazakh Economic Region. INTERNATIONAL GEOGRAPHER". 12 December 2012.
- ^ "ENERJİNİN İSTEHSALI. "Azərenerji" ASC. Su Elektrik Stansiyalari".
- ^ "Şəmkir rayonu. Sənaye".
- ^ "Şəmkir rayonu. Kənd təsərrüfati".
- ^ "Vugar Gashimov Memorial – Press Release". www.chessdom.com. Retrieved 24 April 2014.