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Pirallahi Island
Pirallahi Island, or Pirallakhi Island (Azeri: Pirallahı adası) is an island of Azerbaijan in the Caspian Sea. The island lies off the north-eastern shore of the Apsheron Peninsula, 43 kilometres (27 mi) east-north-east of Baku.
The island is 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) long and has a maximum width of 4 kilometres (2.5 mi). Administratively, Pirallahi Island belongs to the Pirallahi district of Baku. The total area of the island is 14.6 km2. In 1968 the population of the village of Artyom-Ostrov reached 14,400 people. The population of the island is 17,281 people (according to the 2020 census), the density is ~ 3000 people / km2.
The island forms part of the Absheron archipelago Important Bird Area (IBA), designated as such by BirdLife International because it supports significant populations of wintering whooper swans, common pochards, tufted ducks, great crested grebes and common coots, as well as breeding Caspian gulls.
Pirallahi literally means "the shrine of Allah", from the word pir - a shrine / holy place. In ancient times, there was a place of worship and pilgrimage on the island, but there is no exact data on which religion it belongs to. According to one version, it was a shrine of the Zoroastrians, and according to others, Muslims.
The Catalans in 1375 entered Baku on the map as the center city of the whole Caspian Sea, and next to it was Priala.
During Russian Imperial times the island's name was Svyatoy (from Russian: Святой - "The holy one"). It is said that undersea booty from a 1660 sea battle between Persians and Cossack leader Stepan Razin lies off the northern tip of the island.
Pirallahi Island is said to be among the first places where oil was extracted in Azerbaijan, and in the 1820s it was divided into two separate areas, one residential, and another where oil was refined into paraffin. In 1934, oil explorers dropped metal drills off piers from the island, which at the time was considered an advancement in offshore oil exploration.
While Azerbaijan was part of the Soviet Union, the island was renamed Artyom Island in 1936 (Russian: Остров Артёма) after the pioneer revolutionary Comrade Artyom (Fyodor Sergeyev). Pirallahi Island still has a settlement called Artyom.
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Pirallahi Island
Pirallahi Island, or Pirallakhi Island (Azeri: Pirallahı adası) is an island of Azerbaijan in the Caspian Sea. The island lies off the north-eastern shore of the Apsheron Peninsula, 43 kilometres (27 mi) east-north-east of Baku.
The island is 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) long and has a maximum width of 4 kilometres (2.5 mi). Administratively, Pirallahi Island belongs to the Pirallahi district of Baku. The total area of the island is 14.6 km2. In 1968 the population of the village of Artyom-Ostrov reached 14,400 people. The population of the island is 17,281 people (according to the 2020 census), the density is ~ 3000 people / km2.
The island forms part of the Absheron archipelago Important Bird Area (IBA), designated as such by BirdLife International because it supports significant populations of wintering whooper swans, common pochards, tufted ducks, great crested grebes and common coots, as well as breeding Caspian gulls.
Pirallahi literally means "the shrine of Allah", from the word pir - a shrine / holy place. In ancient times, there was a place of worship and pilgrimage on the island, but there is no exact data on which religion it belongs to. According to one version, it was a shrine of the Zoroastrians, and according to others, Muslims.
The Catalans in 1375 entered Baku on the map as the center city of the whole Caspian Sea, and next to it was Priala.
During Russian Imperial times the island's name was Svyatoy (from Russian: Святой - "The holy one"). It is said that undersea booty from a 1660 sea battle between Persians and Cossack leader Stepan Razin lies off the northern tip of the island.
Pirallahi Island is said to be among the first places where oil was extracted in Azerbaijan, and in the 1820s it was divided into two separate areas, one residential, and another where oil was refined into paraffin. In 1934, oil explorers dropped metal drills off piers from the island, which at the time was considered an advancement in offshore oil exploration.
While Azerbaijan was part of the Soviet Union, the island was renamed Artyom Island in 1936 (Russian: Остров Артёма) after the pioneer revolutionary Comrade Artyom (Fyodor Sergeyev). Pirallahi Island still has a settlement called Artyom.
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