Malard (pers. مَلارد) is one of the cities in Iran (Tehran stan). This city is the main center of the Central Bakhsh of Shahrestan Malard. The distance between Malard and the large city of Shahriyar, located to the east of Malard, is 6 kilometers. And the distance between Malard and the center of the province of Alborz, the rapidly growing million-plus city of Keredzh, which is located to the north of it, is 22 kilometers. It was decided to extend the Tehran-Kerej metro line to Malard.

Mallard Demographics
According to the last three Iranian censuses, the number of inhabitants of Malard changed as follows: 88.1 thousand people. (census October 25, 1996), 228.7 thousand people. (October 25, 2006) and 290.8 thousand people. (October 24, 2011), and there were noticeably more men in the city than women: 148.0 thousand against 142.9 thousand. increased significantly – from 2.0 to 2.4%. From 1996 to 2006 Malard rose from the 7th to the 5th largest city in Tehran province, and in 2011 it was already the third largest (after Tehran and Islamshahr). Thus, the city experienced exceptionally high average annual rates of total population growth in the late 1990s and early 2000s. (10.0% per year), and its population has almost tripled in this decade. Such growth rates could not be ensured only due to the birth rate, even if we assume that it was at the level of the physiological maximum in Malard (about 50 births per 1000 people), and they speak of very high rates of migration, mass migration of the population to this city. Over the next five years, the growth rate fell sharply – to 4.9% per year, and the overall growth amounted to only 1.3 times. However, Malard’s population growth rate still remains extremely high, impossible to achieve through birth rates alone, and indicates that mass migration and intensive settlement and development of this city continue. Due to the rapid decline in population growth, the number of residents added to the city on average per year has slightly decreased: from 14.1 thousand people on average for 1996-2006. up to 12.4 thousand in 2006-2011 If this number remains unchanged, then Malard will cross the important milestone of 500 thousand people in 2028 and become one of the largest cities not only in the province of Tehran, but in the whole of Iran.

Malard in old times
The Persian dictionary of Moin says: “Malard is a village, part of the bakhsh Shahriyar of Shahrestan Tehran, located 6 kilometers west of Ali Shah Avaz; its climate is temperate, there are 5970 inhabitants in the village, they use water for irrigation from canals and the Karaj River.

Versions of the origin of the name
The name “Malard” may be an abbreviation of the Persian “Malar-deh”, in which “deh” is a village, and “malar” denotes a structure consisting of three logs connected together so that they form a pyramid; in this form they were fixed on the ground and hung on them skins with sour milk (“spirit”). In addition, older names are also recorded – “Fardis” and “Jukain”, which can be interpreted, respectively, as “having a garden surrounded by a wall” and “a place where a stream flows”. There is another version of the origin of the word “Malard” – that it comes from the words “mahall-e ard” (literally: the place where flour is produced). Someone thinks that the name should be derived from the phrase “mal-e at” (mal – short for “mahall” – place; at – horse), that is, Malard is a place where there are many horses and mules. However, given that parts of the city have names like “Sar-Asyab” (lit.: The beginning of the mill), the second version of the origin of the name seems to be more convincing. That is, the settlement got its name, because there were mills in it and they ground flour.

Sights of Mallard
Among the ancient cultural monuments of the city, one should point out the Zoroastrian temple of fire Takht-e Rostam and the tomb of Imamzade Ibrahim, where Seyid Ibrahim, one of the sons of the revered Imam Hadi, is buried. The tomb has long been a center of pilgrimage for locals. In the village of Mahmudabad, near Malard, there is a fortress with a 4 m high rampart and 8 m high towers around it.