Travel Guide Sumgayit

This new city was founded in 1949 on the north coast of the Caspian Sea. The small fishing village of 4 000 souls in 1940 became in less than 40 years a huge Soviet city with almost 300 000 inhabitants, making it the third largest city in the country, affecting almost Baku. The city bears the name of a former caravanserai, located on the banks of the same name. The climate is subtropical, with average temperatures reaching 25 ° C in July and only 3 ° C to the height of the Winter.Sumgayit is a vast industrial centre born of the Soviet era and pétrochimie. In 1980, the city accounted for more than 80% of the country's heavy industrial activity. Over the past few years, the old factories left abandoned and the population reduced to unemployment were making it a grim city for a stage, if not for a quick study of industrial planning in Soviet fashion. In recent times, the cleaning of the land and the setting up of a seaside walk demonstrate the City's desire to turn to new horizons and to enjoy the beginnings of tourism in the region with a more laugh.