Bibiheybət
Bibiheybat | |
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Municipality | |
| Azerbaijani: Bibiheybət | |
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  Bibiheybat | |
| Coordinates: 40°18′24″N 49°49′21″E / 40.30667°N 49.82250°E | |
| Country |  Azerbaijan |
| City | Baku |
| District | Sabail |
| Population (2008)[1] | |
• Total | 1,451 |
| Time zone | UTC+4 (AZT) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+5 (AZT) |
Bibiheybət (also, Bibiheybat, Bibiheibat, Bibi-Heybat, Bibi-Heibat; formerly known as Khanlar, Euwbet, Helenendorf, and Shikhovo) is a municipality in Baku, Azerbaijan.[2] It has a population of 1,451.
In 1846, the Russians drilled an exploratory oil well to a depth of 21 m. It was the first oil well in the world that was drilled instead of dug by hand.[3] In the 1890s, a large oil field was discovered offshore, which led to land reclamation in 1924 to produce the field. Pavel Pototsky was one of the prime founders of the oil bay around Bibiheybat.[4][5][6]
In 2007, as part of the expansion of the Bibiheybat Motorway and the reconstruction of the Bibiheybat Mosque, dozens of families were relocated to new, modern homes. Alongside these developments, a stadium, a kindergarten, and other facilities were also rebuilt. A recreational park was created around the newly renovated stadium to offer the local community a space for cultural and leisure activities.
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Places of interest
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Transportation
[edit]E60 Highway by pass Bibiheybat.
The Bibiheybet Metro Station is planned in this area by Baku Metro in the future.
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ World Gazetteer: Azerbaijan [dead link] – World-Gazetteer.com
- ^ Bibiheybət at GEOnet Names Server
- ^ Smil, Vaclav (2017). Energy transitions: global and national perspectives (Second ed.). Santa Barbara, California: Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC. pp. 42–43. ISBN 978-1-4408-5324-1.
[By 1806] the Absheron region had many shallow wells from which lighter oil was collected in order to produce kerosene (by thermal distillation) used for local lighting as well as for export by camels (in skins) and in wooden barrels on small ships. In 1837 Russians built the first commercial oil-distilling factory in Balakhani, and nine years later they sank the world's first (21 m deep) exploratory oil well in Bibi-Heybat [sic] and thus opened up what was later classified as the world's first giant oilfield (that is, one having at least 500 million barrels of recoverable crude oil). Baku was thus the place where the modern oil era began in 1846.
- ^ Azerbaijan's Oil History
- ^ Smil, Vaclav (2017). Energy and Civilization: A History. Cambridge: The MIT Press. p. 246. ISBN 9780262035774.
- ^ Blau, Eve; Rupnik, Ivan (2019). Baku: Oil and Urbanism. Park Books. pp. 60–61. ISBN 9783038600763.
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