Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
The following censuses show the modern day villages' population from 1800 - 1900s. According to Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary at the end of the 19th century, the village of "Zod" had 1,088 Tatar (i.e. Azerbaijani) inhabitants. According to the "Caucasian calendar" of 1912, 1,778 people lived in the village of "Zod", mostly "Tatars".