Goytepe — also written Göytəpə, and formerly called Prishib or Prishibinsk by its Russian founders — is a small town in the southern Jalilabad district of Azerbaijan, on the road that leads south toward Masally, Astara, and the Iranian border. It sits about 190 kilometres southwest of Baku.
The town was established as a Russian military garrison settlement in the nineteenth century, and this origin defines what makes it interesting for a visitor. The Russian-era wooden houses, built in the clapboard and log-cabin style of northern Russia, are strikingly incongruous in subtropical southern Azerbaijan — weathered, often half-empty, and increasingly scarce. The Orthodox church that once served the garrison community stands semi-abandoned, the Christian population having left after the Soviet collapse. Sitting beside a small river that flows south toward the marshes, the town has a chaikhana near the bridge where travellers have been stopping for decades. Note that mosquitoes near the river can be fierce. There is a small privately owned hotel with decent accommodation and friendly staff.