Shuvalan
Şüvəlan is a settlement and municipality in Baku, Azerbaijan. It has a population of 14,992. The population origin comes mostly from a settlement of Qala, Azerbaijan.
History
According to the old generation, an ancient times people in Qala, used Shuvalan as pasture for the animals: sheep, cows and horses. Then later on they moved to Shuvalan because the vegetation potential and due to cold weather in winter times in Qala.Modern structures
- Shuvelan Park, one of the shopping malls in Azerbaijan.
- Shuvelan Rehab Center.
Notable natives
- Almas Ildyrym - Azerbaijani Poet, after the Bolsheviks established their power in Azerbaijan in 1920, the fact that Ildyrym had been born into a wealthy merchant family plagued him for the rest of his life.
- Ruhulla Akhundov — First Secretary of the Communist Party of Azerbaijan SSR, People's Commissar of Education of Azerbaijan SSR.
- Ashraf Ashrafzade - Azerbaijani Musician