| Kurdamir (Kyurdamir) |
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Located
on the M4 road to Ganca and served by railways,
Kurdamir has a long and bloody history of invasions and battles, going
back to the Romans and the ancient Albanians. It still keeps to military
tradition with an air base near the town
The present day town present the visitor with the planned layout of so many other Soviet type places. The buildings around the train station look well cared but the architecture is not exceptional. Have a look at the bazaar and take a rest at the culture park. There is a Regional Historical Museum on Garadag Street.
The town is very hot during the summer and the marshy areas provide plenty of mosquitoes whith a reputation for ferocity, generous doses of insect repellent are recommended. Cases of Malaria risk, exclusively in the benign vivax form, are very rare.
Around the town there are several agricultural areas, with vast vineyards and Kurdamir has a grapes processing factory and a silkworm cocoon drying factory.
(160 km west of Baku)
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