Suraxanı or Surakhany ( az, Suraxanı) is a town in the eastern part of

Azerbaijan Azerbaijan (, ; az, Azərbaycan ), officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, , also sometimes officially called the Azerbaijan Republic is a transcontinental country located at the boundary of Eastern Europe and Western Asia. It is a part of t ...

, administrative center of Suraxanı raion of Baku agglomeration. It is located in the

Absheron 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 ...

, at an altitude of 12 meters above sea level, 30 km to the north-east from Baku. A name of the city is translated as “warm house” from the Tat language. From times immemorial outskirts of Suraxanı were famed for abundance of oil wells. The first oil refinery in the world was built in Suraxanı on the initiative of Vasily Kokorev, in 1857. Dmitri Mendeleev worked in this refinery as a consultant. In 1879, Baku- Sabunchu railway branch, which significantly facilitated transportation of oil, passed through Suraxanı and in 1926, the first line of electric trains in the

USSR The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, it was nominally a federal union of fifteen nationa ...

passed through Suraxanı.

Sightseeing

* Ateshgah temple

References

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