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Coordinates: 40°27′42″N 49°55′12″E / 40.46167°N 49.92000°E / 40.46167; 49.92000
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Balaxanı
Municipality
Monument of Mirza Alakbar Sabir in Balakhani
Balaxanı is located in Azerbaijan
Balaxanı
Balaxanı
Coordinates: 40°27′42″N 49°55′12″E / 40.46167°N 49.92000°E / 40.46167; 49.92000
Country Azerbaijan
CityBaku
RaionSabunçu
Population
 (2015)[1]
 • Total
14,123
Time zoneUTC+4 (AZT)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+5 (AZT)

Balaxanı (also, Baelakhona, Balachany, Balakhani, and Balakhany) is a settlement and municipality near Baku, Azerbaijan, on the Absheron Peninsula. Taking advantage of the area's oil pools, a 35 m deep well was dug manually in 1593. The Russians built the first oil-distilling factory here in 1837.[2]

It has a population of 11,615.

The Nobel Brothers' oil wells in Balaxanı in the late 19th century.

Places of interest

Notable natives

See also

References

  1. ^ World Gazetteer: Azerbaijan Archived June 22, 2011, at the Wayback Machine – World-Gazetteer.com
  2. ^ Smil, Vaclav (2017). Energy and Civilization: A History. Cambridge: The MIT Press. p. 246. ISBN 9780262035774.
  3. ^ "Рагимов Садых Гаджияр Али оглы". Справочник по истории Коммунистической партии и Советского Союза 1898 - 1991.