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Pirallahi Island or Pirallakhi Island (
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.
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
High-Tech Industrial Park
website, accessed 4 November 2014.
The Nerekend is fish market and sea food restaurant at the entrance of the Island.
There is also 'FMarine Hotel Resort' in island.
Pirallahi-rayonu1.jpg, Pirallahi District
Pirallahi körpüsü.jpg, Pirallahi Bridge
Pirallahi yolu.jpg, Pirallahi Road
Pirallahi az.gif, Map of Pirallahi
History of the oil industry
Artyom town
Great Soviet Encyclopedia entry
Weather reports for Pirallahı Island
{{Caspian Sea Islands Islands of Azerbaijan Islands of the Caspian Sea Absheron Archipelago
Azeri
Azerbaijanis (; az, Azərbaycanlılar, ), Azeris ( az, Azərilər, ), or Azerbaijani Turks ( az, Azərbaycan Türkləri, ) are a Turkic peoples, Turkic people living mainly in Azerbaijan (Iran), northwestern Iran and the Azerbaijan, Republi ...
: ''Pirallahı adası'') is an island in the Caspian Sea. The island is part of Azerbaijan, and is located right off the northeastern shore of the Apsheron Peninsula
The Absheron Peninsula ( az, Abşeron yarımadası) is a peninsula in Azerbaijan. It is the location of Baku, the biggest and the most populous city of the country, and also the Baku metropolitan area, with its satellite cities Sumqayit and Khyrd ...
, to the ENE of Baku
Baku (, ; az, Bakı ) is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region. Baku is located below sea level, which makes it the lowest lying national capital in the world a ...
.
The island is long and has a maximum width of . Administratively, Pirallahi Island belongs to the Pirallahi district of Baku.The total square of the island is 14.6 km².
Oil deposits on the northern part of Pirallahi are estimated at 1.2 million tons. Flights to other Caspian isles are available at the heliport on the southern tip of the island.
History
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.
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
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leader Stepan Razin
Stepan Timofeyevich Razin (russian: Степа́н Тимофе́евич Ра́зин, ; 1630 – ), known as Stenka Razin ( ), was a Cossack leader who led a major uprising against the nobility and tsarist bureaucracy in southern Russia in 16 ...
lies off the northern tip of the island.
Pirallahi Island is said to be the 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.
Artyom Island
While Azerbaijan was part of the Soviet Union, the island was renamed as Artyom Island in the 1936 (Russian: ''Остров'' ''Артёма'') after the pioneer revolutionary ''Comrade Artyom'' (Fyodor Sergeyev
Fyodor Andreyevich Sergeyev (, ; March 19, 1883 – July 24, 1921), better known as Comrade Artyom (), was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet politician, agitator, and journalist. He was a close friend of Sergei Kirov and Joseph Stali ...
). Pirallahi Island still has a settlement called Artyom.
The old Artyom village was evacuated due to rising water levels of the Caspian Sea and residents moved to a series of apartment towers built by German prisoners in 1948.On October 5, 1999, the current name was returned.
In the early 1950s, by the construction of a dam, the island was connected to the mainland and thus transformed from an island into a peninsula. In 2016, a road bridge was built on the site of the dam, under which ships can pass
Oil and gas production is carried out on the island, fishing is also widespread among the population and there is a fishing port on the island. Previously, the Pirallahi railway station (formerly Artyom) functioned - the terminal on the branch from Baku, at the moment the station and the railway have been dismantled.
Population
In 1968 the population of the village of Artyom-Ostrov reached 14.4 thousand people. The population of the island is 17,281 people (according to the 2020 census), the density is ~ 3000 people / km².Solar station
In order to increase the production of alternative and renewable energy and improve its quality, the Pirallahi solar power plant with a capacity of 2.8 megawatts was commissioned in the Pirallahi district ofBaku
Baku (, ; az, Bakı ) is the capital and largest city of Azerbaijan, as well as the largest city on the Caspian Sea and of the Caucasus region. Baku is located below sea level, which makes it the lowest lying national capital in the world a ...
. The construction of the Pirallahi solar power plant was launched in 2014. After completion of construction by the end of 2020, the plant's capacity will be 12.8 megawatts.
High-Tech Park
A 50-hectare industrial park, High-Tech Park, dedicated to theICT
ICT may refer to:
Sciences and technology
* Information and communications technology
* Image Constraint Token, in video processing
* Immunochromatographic test, a rapid immunoassay used to detect diseases such as anthrax
* In-circuit test, in ...
industry, is being established on the island by the Azerbaijan Ministry of Communications and Information Technologies
A Communications Ministry or Department of Communications is a ministry or other government agency charged with communication. Communications responsibilities includes regulating telecommunications, postal services, broadcasting and print media. T ...
.website, accessed 4 November 2014.
Places of interest
The Pirallahi Lighthouse biggest lighthouse in Azerbaijan is the Absheron lighthouse, located in the territory of Gurgen settlement. The lighthouse, built on hard rocky cliffs at Pirallahi Island built in 1859, was commissioned on October 23, 1860.
The Nerekend is fish market and sea food restaurant at the entrance of the Island.
There is also 'FMarine Hotel Resort' in island.
Gallery
References
History of the oil industry
Artyom town
External links
Great Soviet Encyclopedia entry
Weather reports for Pirallahı Island
{{Caspian Sea Islands Islands of Azerbaijan Islands of the Caspian Sea Absheron Archipelago