Vurğun

For the poet and writer, see Samad Vurgun.

Vurğun (also, Grünfeld, Kalininkänd, and Kalininkend) is a village and municipality in the Agstafa Rayon of Azerbaijan. It has a population of 2,710. Founded as the German colony of Grünfeld, the town was renamed during the Soviet period for Mikhail Kalinin, and afterward in 1991, in honor of the writer Samad Vurgun.^[1]

Vurğun
Municipality
Vurğun
Coordinates: 41°05′42″N 45°28′31″E
Country	Azerbaijan
Rayon	Agstafa
Population [citation needed]
• Total	2,710
Time zone	UTC+4 (AZT)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+5 (AZT)

The village is also home to a portion of Azerbaijan's Assyrian community, who settled in the 1930's after the events of the Assyrian genocide.