Ohud (village)

Ohud is located on the banks of the Kish River ^[2] , on the southern slopes of the Main Caucasian Range . To the east of it, across the river, is the administrative center of the district - the city of Sheki , to the north - the village of Kish .

At the beginning of the 19th century, Eastern Transcaucasia became part of the Russian Empire . The Sheki Khanate , which occupied the territory of the current eponymous district , was transformed into the Sheki province.

One of the documentary materials of that time included “Description of the Sheki Province, compiled in 1819, by order of the Chief Executive Officer in Georgia, Ermolov , Major General Akhverdov and State Councilor Mogilevsky”, from which we learn that the village of Ohud of Sheki Magal was controlled by a rural Uzbek ^[3] .

Subsequently, Ohud ( Azerb. ﺍﻭﺧﻮﺩ ) belonged to the Gyunyuk magal of the Shamakhi province ^[4] , which existed in 1846 - 1859, until it was renamed the Baku province .

The highest decree “On the Transformation of the Administration of the Caucasus and Transcaucasian Territory” dated December 9, 1867 established the Elizabethpol province , which included some counties of the Baku province. Subsequently, Ohud is listed among the settlements of the Nukhinsky district of this province ^{[5] [6] [7] [8] [9]} . According to Russian pre-revolutionary spelling, this village was often written as Okhut ^{[4] [6] [7] [9] [10] [11]} .

In the 1880s, 2 settlements ( Ohud and Kokhmukh ) made up the Okhut rural community ^[5] , and at the beginning of the 20th century the Okhut society included already 5 settlements (Ohud, Karabulag, Kish , Baltaly and Kaynar) ^[8] .

On August 8, 1930, the Nukha District ^[12] was formed as part of the Azerbaijan SSR , which was renamed the Sheki District ^{[13] by} Decree of March 15, 1968. As of January 1, 1961, 4 settlements (Okhut, Kokhmukh, Baltaly and Kish) were part of the Okhut village council ( village council ) of the Nukhinsky district ^[14] , and as of January 1, 1977, the Okhut village council consisted of 2 settlements (Okhut and Kokhmukh) Sheki district ^[15] .

XIX century

In “A Description of the Sheki Province, drawn up in 1819, by order of the Chief Executive Officer in Georgia, Ermolov, Major General Akhverdov and State Councilor Mogilevsky,” the village of Ohud appears as Tatar (that is, Azerbaijani) ^[16] .

According to the “ Caucasian calendar ” for 1856, Ohud was inhabited by “Tatars” - Sunnis (that is, Sunni Azerbaijanis ) who spoke “Tatar” (that is , Azerbaijani ) among themselves ^[4] . According to the desk description of 1874, the population of Ohud consisted of 1.013 "Tatars" (Azerbaijanis), who were Sunni Muslims ^[17] .

According to the materials of the family lists for 1886, there were 233 smoke and 1,336 inhabitants (741 men and 595 women) and all Sun Tatars (Sunni Azerbaijanis) in Okhud, of which 1,318 were peasants on state land (734 men and 584 women; 231 smoke) and 18 representatives of the Sunni clergy (7 men and 11 women) ^[5] . According to the results of the 1897 census , 1,371 people lived in Ohud (752 men and 619 women) and all Muslims ^[11] .

XX century

According to the "Caucasian calendar" for 1904, based on data from the statistical committees of the Caucasus region, there were 1,700 inhabitants in Okhud, mostly "Tatars" (Azerbaijanis) ^[9] . The “Caucasian calendar” for 1910 cites the same ethnic composition, according to which 1,280 people lived in this village in 1908 ^[10] .

All the same (total number and ethnic composition) is repeated in the Memorial Book of the Elisavetpol Province for 1910, but only she notes here 210 smokes, 696 men and 584 women ^[8] . The next “Caucasian calendar” for 1912 showed in Ohud already 1,270 people, also “Tatars” (Azerbaijanis) ^[7] .

Subsequent issues of the "Caucasian calendars" for 1915 and 1916 indicate the same nationality and record 1,818 people here ^{[6] [18]} .

According to the results of the Azerbaijan agricultural census of 1921, Okhut was inhabited by 1,620 people and mainly Turkic Azerbaijanis (i.e. Azerbaijanis), and the population consisted of 852 men (55 of them were literate) and 768 women (of them 8 were literate), and 10 were absent ( 5 of them were in the Red Army) ^[19] . As of 1982, the population of the village was 3,479 people ^[2] .

• Dzhebrailov, Mikail Ahmedia oglu - National Hero of Azerbaijan .