Chërnyy Gorod
Black City is the general name for the southeastern neighbourhoods of Baku, which once formed its suburbs. In the late 19th and early 20th century it became the main location for Azerbaijan's oil industry, and the area's name derives from the smoke and soot of the factories and refineries.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality
- Description: human settlement in Azerbaijan
- Also known as: “Cherni Gorod”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Museum of Modern Art and Military Trophies Park.
Museum of Modern Art
Museum
Photo: M. PINARCI, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Baku Museum of Modern Art is a museum of modern art located in Baku, Azerbaijan.
Military Trophies Park
Museum
The Military Trophy Park, also referred to as War Trophies Park is a public park in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, containing war trophies seized by the Azerbaijani Armed Forces from the Armenian Army and the Artsakh Defence Army during the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war.
Shah Ismail Khatai
Metro station
Shah Ismail Khatai is a Baku Metro station. It was opened on 22 February 1968. It was formerly called Shaumyan and is named after the Shah Ismail I Khatai.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include White City and Keşlə.
White City
Locality
Photo: Ayla Gasimova, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Baku White City is a planned urban development in the Xətai-Khatai district of Azerbaijan. It is part of the 2021 strategic plan for Baku. It refers to the re-development of a portion of Black City, a 221-hectare land area.
Baku
Photo: Jjtkk, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Baku is the capital of Azerbaijan and is the largest city in the Caucasus. Baku's Old Town has UNESCO World Heritage status. Many cultures and architectural styles mix in Baku, in particular Turkish-Islamic elements meet strong Western European and Russian-Eastern European influences.
Chërnyy Gorod
- Category: human settlement
- Location: Baku Region, Azerbaijan, Caucasus, Asia
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In Other Languages
“Chërnyy Gorod” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Chërnyy Gorod”
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