Shahrud, Iran

History

Archeological excavations in different parts of Shahrud Plain indicate the existence of villages in this area during 7-5 millennium BC.

The town was visited by Nasser Khosrow Qubadiani, the Iranian poet of the 12th century, and mentioned by him as the center of the Qomis province.

Shahrud is absent from earlier historical sources and became an important town since the 19th century because of its location on the road from Tehran east to Khorasan. It now also is on the railway. A road runs from Shahrud across the Alborz mountains to the Caspian coastal plains in the north; it is accessible throughout winter. Shahrud was renamed Imāmrūd after the Iranian Revolution of 1979, and has since reverted to the old name. It is just south of the historical city of Bastam.

Demographics

Population

As of 1991, Shahrud had a population of 92,195. At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 126,916 in 35,548 households. The following census in 2011 counted 140,474 people in 40,931 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 150,129 people in 47,606 households.

Climate

Shahrud has a cold desert climate (Köppen climate classification BWk) with hot summers and very cold winters with freezing nights. Precipitation is very low, and mostly falls in winter (often as snow) and spring.

| Jan record high C = 19.0 | Feb record high C = 22.6 | Mar record high C = 29.6 | Apr record high C = 32.4 | May record high C = 37.4 | Jun record high C = 39.4 | Jul record high C = 42.0 | Aug record high C = 42.0 | Sep record high C = 37.0 | Oct record high C = 32.2 | Nov record high C = 29.0 | Dec record high C = 19.4 | year record high C = 42.0 | Jan record low C = -14.0 | Feb record low C = -14.0 | Mar record low C = -8.8 | Apr record low C = -7.0 | May record low C = -1.0 | Jun record low C = 6.0 | Jul record low C = 10.0 | Aug record low C = 8.0 | Sep record low C = 2.0 | Oct record low C = -3.0 | Nov record low C = -14.2 | Dec record low C = -11.0 | year record low C = -14.2 | Jan dew point C = -5.2 | Feb dew point C = -5.0 | Mar dew point C = -2.8 | Apr dew point C = 1.0 | May dew point C = 4.5 | Jun dew point C = 6.6 | Jul dew point C = 9.2 | Aug dew point C = 8.4 | Sep dew point C = 6.1 | Oct dew point C = 2.7 | Nov dew point C = -1.1 | Dec dew point C = -3.4 | year dew point C = 1.8 |access-date = January 1, 2024}}(snow and rainy days 1961-1990)

Higher education

• Shahrood University of Technology

Notable people

• Bayazid Bastami, (9th century) Sufi
• Abol-Hassan Kharaqani, (963-1033) Sufi
• Muhammad ibn Ja'far al-Sadiq, (d.818 CE) historical personality
• Kourosh Yaghmaei, (born 1946) singer
• Ahmad Jalali, (born 1949) scholar
• Touka Neyestani, (born 1960) cartoonist
• Zohreh Akhyani, (born 1964) MeK member and politician
• Anahita Nemati, (born 1977) actress
• Laleh Eftekhari, (born 1959) politician
• Abolfazl Fateh, politician

Notes

References

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