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Historians proved that in the 7 th century BC locally Sumgita settlement was Medes.
When excavation for the building of the current executive were found pottery, glassware, coins. It turns out that there was an ancient settlement.
In the name of the city is connected many legends. According to one of them happened in the distant past such history. After the city passed a caravan. Among the travelers were two lovers - a young man named Sum and a girl named Adelia. When exhausted all supplies of water, Sum could not endure the torments of thirst languishing Adelia and set out to find the source. Foreseeing the impending disaster, Adelia tried to stop a loved shouting: "Sum of Haiti, Haiti Sum", which means "Water come back. Even before the birth of the city There are 4 objects that had carried the name "Sumgait": town, river, lighthouse, the railway station. In the literature the following options toponym - the name of the city: Sumgait, Sumgait, Sugayyt, Sumgait, Sugai.
Russian traveler Berezin in his travel notes, wrote: "In the vicinity of the city flows the river, not the Sumgait, not what Sugai. This name comes from the fact that in the heat of the water in the river dries up, and with the rains the river comes to life.
According to the researcher, in the territory of Sumgait in the early 7 th century Persian tribes lived. Revealed by archaeological remains of the bridge and caravanserais - confirm the assumption that on both sides of the river Sumqayitchay passed the caravan route. In the first in the historical documents referred to in Sumgait in 1580 the British traveler H. Beraud. In 1858 a book by the French writer Alexander Dumas' journey to the Caucasus, "noted coach station with the name" Sumgait ".
V1935, on the College of the People's Commissariat of awful industry with the participation of Azerbaijani specialists to decide on the location of the Absheron Peninsula to the Construction industry and thermal power.
After some time to lay a new industrial city, was elected the north-western part of the Absheron at 30-35 km from Baku, Sumgait near the railway station. To understand what tests endured by the first builders rather prevesti one example from history: "It's devastating winds dosozhdali builders: dug a trench for the night and day slaughter sand ... Last night a hut zanosido sand so that every time the excavations had to devote 2-3 truck.
