Neft Daşları (Oil Rocks)

Neft Daşları lies in the open sea about 100 kilometres east of Baku. On 7 November 1949 oil flowed from its first well — the world's first offshore oil field to go into production.

Over the following years hundreds of kilometres of trestles, housing, a hospital and a house of culture were built above the sea, creating a "city on the sea". Still in operation, it is a symbol of the oil workers' heroism.