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The Absheron Peninsula (Azerbaijani: Abşeron yarımadası) is a peninsula in Azerbaijan. It is the location of Baku , the biggest and the most populous city of the country, and the Baku Metropolitan Area, with its satellite cities Sumqayit and Khyrdalan .
Baku Airport began its operations in 1933, when the first flight to Moscow through the Caucasus Mountains took place. The Baku-Moscow flight route was established four years later in 1937, and commenced its operations to carry 15 passengers daily. A year later, in 1938, Baku-Rostov and Baku-Grozny flights were introduced as well.
The country's capital city is Baku. Air transportation in Azerbaijan is regulated by the Ministry of Transportation of Azerbaijan Republic . A$40 million project to lengthen the main runway at Ganja Airport has been completed, allowing the first international direct connections to the city.
13 more stations are planned toward to the East, including Baku International Airport. A total of 20 passenger railroad stations are planned to be reconstructed / commissioned / built on the Absheron Peninsula by the end of 2027, including the construction of 4 new stations between Balajari Station and Baku Railway Station, AzVision.az reports ...
Azerbaijan Airlines flight J2-8243, operated with an Embraer 190 passenger jet, took off from Baku airport at 7.55am local time on 25 December 2024. On board: 62 passengers, three cabin crew and ...
Khazar rayon is a part of the Baku Metropolitan Area which makes up a majority of the Absheron Peninsula, with a total population of 3,675,000 people. The district is home to the Heydar Aliyev International Airport, busiest airport in the Caucasus, and one of the busiest airports in post-Soviet countries and West Asia.
It's positioned on the eastern Absheron Peninsula, about 30 km away from capital city Baku, and just 10 km from Heydar Aliyev International Airport, bounded by Shuvalan to the east, Qala to the south, and Shagan to the west. It also borders Bina in the south-west, and Buzovna to the north-west. Mardakan is the third largest settlement in Khazar ...
Absheron District was founded in 1963 by the Soviet government to assure enough labour force, highly educated professional staff and necessary provisions are given to enterprises and firms, kolkhozes and collective farms, poultry and agrarian industries, construction centres, scientific-research institutes and laboratories present on the territories of Baku and Sumgait.