Sumgayit, Azerbaijan, march 16, 2007
A couple is working in their vegetable garden at a former industrial site in Sumgayit, north of Baku. Soviet planners made Sumgayit a centre of heavy chemical industry, but after the fall of the Soviet Union, most of the factories closed. Today the area, littered with rusty pipes, is still extremely polluted.
16.03.2007
fot Nick Hannes/Reporters/REPORTER