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Bakıxanov

human settlement in Azerbaijan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ3299602 ↗
Source-derived summary

Bakıxanov (Bakikhanov) is a settlement and municipality in Baku, Azerbaijan. It was named after Abbasgulu Bakikhanov and has a population of 71,600.

It contains a mosque and a public park. On the eastern side of the town is Bulbula Lake. Sabunchu lies near northwestern Bakıxanov.

Prior to 1992, it was known as Stepan Razin, named for the Cossack uprising leader Stepan Razin.

Transportation

Road

Baku Airport Highway by pass Bakikhanov.

Railroad

The Bakixanov station of Baku suburban railway.

Metro

The Bakixanov Metro Station Y-22 in

Blue Line M-11

are planned in this area by Baku Metro in the future.

Notable natives

Huseyn Derya - was an award-winning Azerbaijani rapper and actor.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Bakıxanov” is human settlement in Azerbaijan. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Bakıxanov, human and settlement, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1992—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1923. For this dossier, Bakıxanov, human and settlement is the immediate research focus.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3299602. Authority coordinates are 40.422, 49.965. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1992.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bakıxanov” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.