In accordance with the presidential decree dated June 13, 2008, the settlement of Lerik was granted the status of a city.

Morgan has conducted archaeological excavations at the Gizilbashlar cemetery in the village of Veri of Lerik.

[3][4] Professor Asadulla Jafarov, head of the Archeology and Ethnography Department of the History Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan, conducted scientific researches in the territory of Lerik region and for the first time discovered an ancient human camp belonging to the Middle Paleolithic Age in the Buzeyir cave.

It is known for myths of human longevity; a man named Shirali Baba Muslimov, born in the village of Barzavu, who was reported by the Guinness Book of Records to have been aged 168 when he died and was believed to have lived between 1805 and 1973.

Lerik region is bordered by Yardimli in the south and south-west, in the north-east Lankaran, in the north-west Masalli, and in the south-east Astara.

The Botanical Research Center of the National Academy of Sciences studies of the Fauna and Flora is operating here.

Lerik Region Central Hospital provides medical care to 82 thousand people.

[8] Ancient mansion "Qizyurdu"l, Baba Isa tomb in the village of Mondigah, Mausoleum of Khalifa Zechariah, Mosque in Lulekaran village (19th century) Jabir Mausoleum (12th–14th centuries) and so on are the most famous monuments in the region.

During the Safavid rule, Shah Ismayil also sent his faithful people to the Lerik region.

303700 copies of the political, artistic and scientific literature have been collected in the branches of the centralized library system of the district.