Əbil

Village and municipality in Saatly, Azerbaijan

39°57′N 48°33′E / 39.950°N 48.550°E / 39.950; 48.550Country

AzerbaijanDistrictSaatlyTime zoneUTC+4 (AZT) • Summer (DST)UTC+5 (AZT)

Əbil (formerly Ukrainskiye Otruba, 26 Bakı Komissarı) is a village and municipality in the Saatly Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 887.^{[citation needed]} Ukrainskiye Otruba was founded in the nineteenth century by Russian-speaking immigrants from what is now Ukraine.^[1] By the 1950s, most Russian speakers had left the village and it was resettled by ethnic Azeris from neighbouring villages. As of 2016, only one Russian-speaker, a 90-year-old man, still lived in Əbil.^{[citation needed]}