Əbil Explained

Official Name:Əbil
Pushpin Map:Azerbaijan
Pushpin Mapsize:300
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Azerbaijan
Subdivision Type1:District
Subdivision Name1:Saatly
Type:village and municipality
Timezone:AZT
Utc Offset:+4
Utc Offset Dst:+5
Coordinates:39.95°N 81°W

Əbil (formerly Ukrainskiye Otruba, 26 Bakı Komissarı) is a village and municipality in the Saatly Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 887. Ukrainskiye Otruba was founded in the nineteenth century by Russian-speaking immigrants from what is now Ukraine.[1] By the 1950s, most Russian speakers had left the village and it was resettled by ethnic Azeris from neighbouring villages. As of 2016, only one Russian-speaker, a 90-year-old man, still lived in Əbil.

Notes and References

  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20150123100558/http://www.novoye-vremya.com/new/2012/09/22/get=64362 О ЖИЗНИ РУССКИХ В ГЕКЧАЕ, САБИРАБАДЕ И СААТЛЫ