Əbil

Əbil
Əbil
	Əbil
	Coordinates: 39°56′N 48°33′E / 39.933°N 48.550°E
Country	Azerbaijan
Rayon	Saatly
Time zone	UTC+4 (AZT)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+5 (AZT)

Əbil (formerly Ukrainskiye Otruba, 26 Bakı Komissarı) is a village and municipality in the Saatly Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 887.^{[citation needed]} 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.^[2]

References

^ О ЖИЗНИ РУССКИХ В ГЕКЧАЕ, САБИРАБАДЕ И СААТЛЫ. Novoye Vremya, #171 (3961). 22 September 2012. Retrieved 24 February 2017.
^ Единственный русскоязычный житель азербайджанского села. 31 March 2016. Retrieved 24 February 2017.

39°57′N 48°33′E / 39.950°N 48.550°E / 39.950; 48.550

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[1] О ЖИЗНИ РУССКИХ В ГЕКЧАЕ, САБИРАБАДЕ И СААТЛЫ. Novoye Vremya, #171 (3961). 22 September 2012. Retrieved 24 February 2017.

[2] Единственный русскоязычный житель азербайджанского села. 31 March 2016. Retrieved 24 February 2017.

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