Sədərək

Coordinates: 39°43′03″N 44°52′35″E / 39.71750°N 44.87639°E / 39.71750; 44.87639

Sədərək (also, Sadarak and Sedarak) is a village and the most populous municipality in the Sadarak Rayon of Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. The village has a population of 1,869; the municipality has a population of 7,013.

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Sadarak District

Sadarak (Sədərək) is a rayon of Azerbaijan in the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic. It was split from the Ilyich rayon (present-day Sharur) in 1990. It has an exclave in Armenia - Karki - which has been under Armenian control since May 1992 when it was captured during the Nagorno-Karabakh War. Sadarak covers 163,74 km², located in the north-west of Nakchivan Autonomous Republic and has three villages. The capital of Sadarak is Heydarabad. The distance from Sadarak to Yerevan is 60 km.

Sadarak is the only Azerbaijani district bordering on Turkey. In the years of blockade Nakhchivan’s only “road of life” passed through Sadarak, which is considered Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic’s fortress. Mount Ararat is visible from here. The bridge over the Aras, also called the “bridge of hope”, links Azerbaijan with Turkey. It was opened in a ceremony on 26 May 1992 and proved instrumental in eliminating the blockade Nakhchivan was subjected to in the 1990s. The Nakhchivan-Istanbul bus route passes through the bridge.