Dəmirçi, Nakhchivan

Dəmirçi (Damirchi) is a village in the Sadarak District of Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, Azerbaijan. It is located in the near of the Nakhchivan-Sadarak highway, 11 km in the north-west from the district center, on the Sharur plain. Its population is busy with grain-growing, vegetable-growing, beet-growing and animal husbandry. There are two secondary schools, cultural house, library, kindergarten, hospital and a "Binamaz Əhməd" sacred place of 18th century in the village. It has a population of 5,092. It is the closest settlement to Azerbaijan's only crossing point to Turkey, an important lifeline for the Nakhchivan exclave after the closure of the Armenian border following the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.