Çinarlı (known as Georgsfeld until 1932 and Leninfeld or Lenin until 1992) is a village and municipality in the Shamkir Region of

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. It has a population of 3,739.

History

The village was founded by German colonists from Helenendorf (now Goygol) in 1888, where it was named Georgsfeld in honor of

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. Due to the Russian Empire and German Empire coming into conflict during

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, the village was renamed to Georgievskoe or Georgiyevsk in 1916. During the

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period as the

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, the village was renamed to Leninfeld in 1932. Following the deportation of

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in response to Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union in

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, it was renamed to Leninkend in 1942. After the village was declared an urban-type settlement, the settlement was last renamed to Lenin in 1962.

References

* Populated places in Shamkir District {{Shamkir-geo-stub