Nabran is the municipality of the capital city of the Khachmaz region which is located in

Khachmaz Rayon Khachmaz District ( az, Xaçmaz rayonu; lez, Хъачмаз район) is one of the 66 districts of Azerbaijan. It is located in the north-east of the country and belongs to the Guba-Khachmaz Economic Region. The district borders the districts ...

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, close to the

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-Azerbaijan border. It has a population of 300,000. The municipality consists of the following villages Nabran, Dalğalı,

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, Meşəli, Günəşli,

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, and

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. Nabran is the largest region within the Khachmaz Rayon. Nabran is a 3-hour drive from the capital of Azerbaijan,

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, and is located on the Caspian seashore in a

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forestland. The settlement covers several kilometers.

Tourism

The village is located in a northeast part of Azerbaijan on the bank of Caspian Sea and is surrounded by forest. Nabran has a resort zone, and tourists are attracted by the climate, which remains moderate throughout the year: it is dry and warm in summer and wet in winter, but it is not especially frosty.

Nature

The forested area which is immediately intertwined with the sandy beach is rich with unique trees particular to this area. In the background, the forests merge with

Mount Shahdagh Mount Shahdagh ( az, Şahdağ; lez, Кас сув) is a mountain peak of the Greater Caucasus range, located in the Qusar District of Azerbaijan, close to the border with Russia. The elevation of the peak is above sea level. Among the earth r ...

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Mountain range. Due to absence of manufacturing industry and low population density, the sea water is clean compared to heavily industrialized

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. Nabran area is rich with clean drinking water flowing from Mount Shahdagh. In the early 1900s, at

Haji Zeynalabdin Taghiyev , image = Haji Zeynalabdin Taghiyev.jpg , image_size = 250px , caption = , birth_date = 25 January 1823Shollar village and travel south to Hacı Zeynalabdin village (formerly known as "Nasosnaya" meaning ''pumping station'' in Russian) in the vicinity of Baku where it would be pumped to the higher ground on which Baku is located. The project was completed in 1917.

Recreational facilities

Nabran is rich with many recreation facilities offering a wide variety of services from upscale accommodations, athletic activities, children camps to music entertainment. Most of the accommodations are 2-story cottages or town houses. The variety of tourists includes domestic visitors, tourists from Russia and

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working in the capital

. Throughout the history of the area, Nabran served as the resort for oil workers of

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. The company still has two tourist hostels. In 2009, Nabran tourism expansion project was started in order to create more facilities for increasing tourism in the area. A planned amount for the project is $110 million.

Gallery

File:Nabran2.jpg, One of resorts in Nabran File:Azeri Forest.jpg, Nabran forest next to sandy beach File:Nabran 1898.jpg, Atlant leisure facility

References

External links

Home page of the resort area of Nabran www.nabran.ru

Snapshots of the resort area of Nabran foto.nabran.ru
{{Khachmaz Rayon Populated places in Khachmaz District Resorts in Azerbaijan