Mingecevir

Mingachevir is the fourth-largest metropolis in Azerbaijan with a population of approximately 104,500. It is called metropolis of lighting fixtures because of its hydroelectric power station at the Kur River, which splits the town in half. The place has been settled for lots of years, however the cutting-edge town was founded in 1948, in part via German soldiers who were taken prisoner all through World War II. Despite the fact that Mingecevir is a younger metropolis, the territory in which the metropolis is positioned is called an ancient home. The records of this homestead covers a duration from the eneolith generation to the AD 17th century.

It become the chairman of the Caucasus archeological committee, A. I. Berje, who first gave information approximately the archeological monuments of Mingecevir at the second congress of archeologists in St Petersburg in 1871.citation needed Although this records changed into not particular, Berje presented Mingecevir as an historic settlement. After this, Mingecevir remained out of archeologists’ interest for many years. Archeological researches resumed in Mingecevir most effective in mid-Nineteen Thirties as part of the development of the hydroelectric strength station.