Suraxani

Suraxanı or Surakhani is a town inside the jap a part of Azerbaijan, administrative center of Surakhani Rayon of Baku agglomeration. It is located inside the Absheron peninsula, at an altitude of 12 meters above sea stage, 30 km to the north-east from Baku. A name of the city is translated as “warm house” from the Tat language. From times immemorial outskirts of Surakhani were famed for abundance of oil wells. The first oil refinery within the global changed into constructed in Surakhani on the initiative of Vasiliy Kokorev, in 1857. Dmitri Mendeleev labored on this refinery as a representative.

In 1879, Baku-Sabunchu railway department, which considerably facilitated transportation of oil, passed through Surakhani and in 1926, the primary line of electric trains in the USSR exceeded through Surakhani. The Soviet Union,officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ,became a socialist nation in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991. Nominally a union of more than one country wide Soviet republics, its authorities and economic system had been fairly centralized.