NAMES OF NEIGHBORHOODS OF IREVAN AT THE END OF XIX CENTURY

Abstract

In the article is studied the facts that Yerevan city belongs to Azerbaijan and it is communicated to the scientific community. For this purpose the articles “Yerevan city” (54 pages), “Derechichek” (14 pages), “Tatar proverbs” (19 pages) by Stepan Pavlovich Zelinski, prominent Russian enlightener, published in the journal “The Collection of the Materials to Describe the Terrain and Tribes in the Caucasus” of Caucasus Educational Department in Tbilisi, 1881 and other materials regarding this issue are investigated. Pieces of information about this city‟s neighborhoods‟ names that were gathered by Stepan Zelinski who was born in Yerevan and worked as a teacher in schools here, his comments and maps were drawn by him demonstrate that there were few Armenian people in that city. So, naming only one of the thirty neighborhoods in Yerevan as “Armenian neighborhood” in 1881 and informations about existence of some Azerbaijani neighborhoods in the article help us to imagine that Azerbaijanis were main citizens and Armenians were minorities in that city which has international composition in terms of population. Official statistics of that period confirms the informations reflected in the names of neighborhood and on the map.