What's in the settlement
- 4 schools
- 1 kindergarten
- A culture house and a library
- A modern outpatient clinic
- An ambulance station
- A post office and telephone exchange
Train, bus, car
Getting There
Pirshagi sits on the Baku–Sumqayit railway, so you can reach it from the city by train or by bus.
Suburban train
The Baku–Sumqayit line has a Pirshagi station. Trains leave Baku station and call at Narimanov, Keshla, “Koroghlu,” Bakikhanov, Sabunchu, Zabrat 1, Zabrat 2 and Mammadli before Pirshagi, then Görədil and Novkhani. The timetable lists 20 departures a day from Baku and 22 from Sumqayit.
Bus
Routes 173 and 179 serve the dachas and the beach; sources also mention 173A and 173B. Exact stops may change with the season.
Car
The settlement lies about 35 kilometres north of central Baku on the northern shore of the Absheron peninsula; English-language sources give 34 kilometres from the railway station. Görədil adjoins it to the west and Kürdəxanı to the east.
Natives of Pirshagi
1871–1954Sheikh-ul-Islam Akhund Agha Alizadeh — Sheikh-ul-Islam of the Caucasus (1918–1920 and 1944–1954).
1889–1921Ajdar Malikov — A politician, a co-founder of the Hummat party; a street in the settlement bears his name.
1900–1961Saftar Jafarov — Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the Azerbaijan SSR.
1918–1941Huseynbala Aliyev — A military pilot, killed in 1941 in the skies over Leningrad.
1930–2023Khoshbakht Yusifzadeh — An academician of ANAS and SOCAR's first vice-president for geology.
·Kovkab Safaraliyeva — Azerbaijan's first woman piano teacher, a People's Artist.
·Akif Alizadeh — A doctor of geology and mineralogy, former president of ANAS.
Timetables and routes change — check the current information from Azerbaijan Railways and BakuBus before setting out.