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 Australian travel guide - travel.ninemsn.com.au published a story on the world’s ugliest cities, where Sumgayit is named the ugliest city.
“Sumgayit is Azerbaijan’s third-largest city, and due to its seaside location, was at one point going to be a resort town.

But then industry moved in. A massive power station was built to service the burgeoning oil works in Baku, and the Soviets decided to make Sumgayit their chemical production hub after World War II. As a result, the city is horrendously polluted, and crammed full of rusty chemical works, metallurgical plants and dirty pipes.

Places to visit include the children's cemetery, which contains the graves of thousands of children born with physical deformities and severe mental deficiencies; almost certainly a result of the pollution.”