Sumqayıt

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Sumqayıt
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State : AzerbaijanAzerbaijan Azerbaijan
City with rayon status: Sumqayıt
Founded : 1949
Coordinates : 40 ° 35 '  N , 49 ° 40'  E Coordinates: 40 ° 35 '23 "  N , 49 ° 40' 7"  E
Height : 10  m below sea level
Area : 96  km²
 
Residents : 333,600 (2015)
Population density : 3,475 inhabitants / km²
Time zone : AZT ( UTC + 4 )
Telephone code : (+994) 18
Postal code : AZ5000
License plate : 50
 
Community type: City (şəhər)
Website :
Map of Azerbaijan, position of Sumqayıt highlighted
Soviet style apartment blocks
Coastal road at the east end of town

Sumqayıt ( Cyrillic-written Azerbaijani Сумгајыт, Russian Сумгаит Sumgait ) is a city in Azerbaijan with 294,500 inhabitants (2014), around 30 kilometers from the capital Baku , in the north of the Abşeron peninsula on the Caspian Sea . The urban area has an area of ​​96 km².

history

Sumqayıt is a young and fast growing city; it was only founded in 1949. In the city, there was a POW camp 328 for German prisoners of war of the Second World War .

In 1988 there was a pogrom of Armenians living in Sumqayıt. The entire Armenian community was either murdered or driven to Armenia . The massacre was one of the most significant climaxes in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict .

economy

Sumqayıt is now the largest industrial city in Azerbaijan with more than 30 large companies, which mainly belong to the chemical and metal processing industry. There are huge oil fields on the Abşeron Peninsula, where oil was extracted as early as the 8th century AD .

traffic

On November 16, 2018, a new passenger station was inaugurated in Sumqayıt. It has seven platform tracks with a total length of more than 5,000 meters. Since 2015, modern Kiss double-decker trains from Stadler Rail have been in use on the connection to Baku .

education

Sports

In the city is the Mehdi-Hüseynzad Stadion stadium , the home stadium of the clubs FK Gənclərbirliyi Sumqayıt and Sumqayıt PFK .

environmental pollution

Along with Linfen and Tianying in China , Sukinda and Vapi in India , La Oroya in Peru , Dzerzhinsk and Norilsk in Russia , Chornobyl in Ukraine and Kabwe in Zambia, the city was among the ten dirtiest cities in the world in 2007. This is mainly due to the fact that synthetic rubber , aluminum, detergents and pesticides are produced as cheaply as possible in Sumqayıt .

Since the industry works largely without considering environmental damage, the city and its immediate surroundings are heavily polluted by carcinogenic , mutagenic and teratogenic chemical waste. The cancer rate within the population is significantly higher, as is the neonatal mortality. In addition, many children are born with deformities or disabilities.

sons and daughters of the town

Town twinning

literature

  • Schafiga Hadjiahmedova: Sumgayit: City on sand. In: Bauwelt 36/2009 (= Stadt Bauwelt 183), Berlin September 25, 2009/100. Volume, pp. 70–73

Web links

Commons : Sumqayıt  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Population by sex, economic and administrative regions, urban settlements of the Republic of Azerbaijan at the beginning of the 2014 ( Memento from July 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Azərbaycan Respublikasının Dövlət Statistika Komitəsi (State Statistics Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan)
  2. Maschke, Erich (ed.): On the history of the German prisoners of war of the Second World War. Verlag Ernst and Werner Gieseking, Bielefeld 1962–1977.
  3. Sumgait Massacre , Die Zeit , August 23, 1991, No. 35
  4. Dirk Kurbjuweit : Sumgait ist weit , Die Zeit , April 8, 1988, No. 15
  5. ^ New railway station complex opened in Azerbaijan [based on a press release from AZD JSC]. In: OSJD Bulletin 5–6 / 2018, pp. 45f.
  6. Dirty Places: Sumgait, Azerbaijan , Spiegel Online , September 13, 2007
  7. Report ( Memento of the original from March 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the Blacksmith Institute 2007 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.blacksmithinstitute.org