Agsu District

Gagali, Kandoba, Bijo, Kalva, Pirhasanli, Jalayir, Padar, Arabushaghi and Garagoyunlu are the biggest villages in the district.

69 schools providing general education, 5 out-of-school and pre-school institutes, 6 hospitals, 18 ambulatory-polyclinics, 22 doctor's assistant-mama dispensaries, a cultural palace, 10 cultural houses, 47 libraries, a music school for children and a history-ethnographical museum operate in the district.

[4] Agsu District is located south of the Great Caucasian Mountains and on the plain of Shirvan.

Kukash gorge and Javanshir Lake (in the west), Yukhari Shirvan canal and its branch Agsu (in the south) as well as little Bijoderesi river are located in the district.

The valley of the river loses its form beginning from Agsu city to the south.

2,068 IDPs and refugees live in the district, with most of them coming from Armenia, Uzbekistan and the Armenian-occupied territories surrounding Nagorno-Karabakh.

[7] More than 27,3 percent of the population (about 21,700 persons) consists of young people and teenagers aged 14–29.

[8] The statues of ram built in the Middle Ages brought great interest to the Agsu region.

These types of grave monuments are widely used in the South Caucasus, East Anadolu, Middle Asia, Sibir, and Altay.

It should be mentioned that the early information about stone ram figures comes from the foreign travellers who visited Azerbaijan in the XIII-XIX centuries.

These ram statues are related to the Middle Ages historical Azerbaijani governments Aghoyunlu and Garagoyunlu.

The walls of the Red dome constructed in 1869–1870 in an octahedral prism shape were built of red-baked bricks.

[10] Agsu region has a number of amenities offering a wide range of services, such as Agsu region History and Ethnography Museum displaying archaeological artefacts date back to the III-I centuries BC and other historical exhibits,[11] Agsu region Cultural Center featuring "Goncha" folk instrumental ensemble, "New Aghsu" vocal-instrumental ensemble.

Cattle-breeding, grain-growing, cotton-growing, fruit-growing and vegetable-growing are the most important fields of the district's economy.

36184-hectare arable lands were freely given to long-term 43892 proprietors as a result of carried out agrarian reforms in National Leader Heydar Aliyev's initiative and under his leadership.

98-100% of the production of the district, retail commodity circulation, paying services falls to the non-governmental sector's share.

Wheat, barley, alfalfa, maize, sunflower, watermelon and vegetable, sugar-beet, potato, cotton, grape, pomegranate and other plants are cultivated in the district.

In 2007, 80018-ton grain (in 27520-hectare area), 1032.1-ton cotton, 311.4-ton potato, 1818.6-ton vegetable, 3932.2-ton water-melon, 5053-ton fruit were cultivated in the district by private farmers and proprietors of individual plots.

Children and Youth Art Center in Agsu
Nature of Agsu
Aghsu Chess School
Agsu Medieval Ages Archaeological Tourism Complex