Sabirabad

Sabirabad is a city in and the capital of the Sabirabad Rayon of Azerbaijan. The city was renamed in honor of the poet Mirza Alakbar Sabir. Sabirabad is the administrative center of Sabirabad District of the Republic of Azerbaijan. In 1935, the district received the status of subordinate city. Sabirabad is located on the right bank of the Kura River. In the vicinity of the city called Sugovushan, the Araz River is merged with the Kur River.

According to Gulistan Peace Treaty of October 12, 1813, part of the khanates of Azerbaijan was occupied by the Russians. Mughan territory was also captured by Russia. As a result of the administrative territorial reforms carried out in Russia, a new territory - Javad Uyezd was set up in Baku in 1868. After the merger of Russia with Russia, a large group of Ukrainian peasants was transferred to Javad, and the settlement was named Petropavlovka since 1888. Petropavlovka was part of the Javad area of the Baku province. In 1901 there were only 87 farms in that area, and in 1907 the number of Russian villages in those areas was 13. In 1913, there was a cotton-cleaning plant, two industrial enterprises-mills were put into operation. On May 1, 1920, Petropavlovsk became the local state power body of the Revolutionary Committee of the Djevatskoye Uyezd, after Azerbaijan joined Russia again. From May 1, 1921 to April 8, 1929, Sabirabad region operated as the Petropavlovsk district of Djevatskoye Uyezd . On April 8, 1929, by the decision of the VI All-Azerbaijani Soviet Congress, it was called the Petropavlovsk district of Mugan district. On August 8, 1930, according to the Central Executive Committee's decision # 476, the district system was abolished and Petropavlovsk became an independent region. Almost a year later, on October 7, 1931, by the Decree of the Central Executive Committee of Azerbaijan, Petropavlovsk was given the name of Mirza Alakbar Sabir, the great poet of Azerbaijan, the founder of the public satire in our classical literature.

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