Azerbaijan Architecture and Construction University English Language Sumgait City

Demographics
According to the State Statistics Committee, as of 2018, the population of city recorded 341.2 thousand persons, which increased by 84,500 persons (about 33%) from 256.7 thousand persons in 2000.168,3 thousand of total population are men; 172,9 thousand are women.More than 23 percent of the population consists of young people and teenagers aged 14–29.
Ethnic composition
Azerbaijanis comprise 97.74% of the population, Lezgin 1.13%, Russians 0.69%, Talysh 0.15%, Turkish 0.06%, and others 0.23%.
Until the events of the dissolution of the Soviet Union, it was home to 20,000 Armenians, who were displaced as refugees as a result of the Sumgait pogrom.
Religion
Sumgait did not have a mosque until after the collapse of the Soviet Union.In the 2010s, the city has emerged as a center for Salafism in Azerbaijan, a form of Sunni Islam that advocates a return to Islam's earliest practices.The Syrian Civil War and emergence of ISIL forced authorities to take action on crackdown of perceived religious radicals in Sumgait.
Architecture
The first studies in architecture and urban planning of the city of Sumgait were carried out by Azerbaijani and Soviet scientist, academician of the International Academy of Architecture of the Eastern Countries, honored architect of Azerbaijan SSR Kamal Mammadbeyov. The result of years of research were numerous scientific publications and a book about architectural and planning development of the city of Sumgait.Mammadbeyov donated a large number of graphics and illustrations made by him to the archives of The City Museum. The Flag Museum in Sumgait was opened on December 15, 2017 with the participation of Ilham Aliyev.
Music and media
Sumgait was credited as the main regional driving force behind rock bands of the 1990s including Yuxu, Miraj, Mozalan, and Sirr.
The regional channel Dünya TV and newspaper 365 Gün are headquartered in the city.
In 2020, the Azerbaijan Jewish Media Center was established in Sumgayit.
Sports
Mehdi Huseynzade Sumqyit City Stadium
The city has one professional football team competing in the top-flight of Azerbaijani football – Sumgayit, currently playing in the Azerbaijan Premier League.
During the Soviet rule of Azerbaijan, Sumgait was believed[by whom?] to have the longest boulevard in the republic. The Culture and Leisure Park was laid on 23 hectares (57 acres) of Sumgait coastline in 1967. On August 17, 1978 the park was given the name of a distinguished Azerbaijani poet Imadaddin Nasimi. The same year, the city administration raised the Peace Dove sculpture and monument in the middle of the park assigning the city a symbol of peace.
The flora of the park includes 39 types of trees. Events of the 1990s, such as the Black January tragedy and First Nagorno-Karabakh War, led to the establishment of Stars (Ulduzlar) and 20 January Monument monuments in the park. In the eastern section of the park, Shehidler Khiyabani, similar to Martyrs' Lane in Baku, was established as a burial ground for thousands of soldiers from Sumgait who died during the war. According to Decree No. 132 of the Cabinet of Ministers of Azerbaijan dated August 2, 2001, the park was given the status of national historical importance. Its current size is 80 ha.
In addition to Nasimi Culture and Leisure Park, the city administration built Ludwigshafen Park in 1997 in celebration of the 20th anniversary of twin-city relations between Ludwigshafen and Sumgait. In 1999, Heydar Aliyev Park and Luna Park were built in the rapidly growing city.