Sabunçu
Municipality
Sabunchu Railway Station in 1926
Sabunçu
Coordinates: 40°26′33″N 49°56′53″E / 40.44250°N 49.94806°E / 40.44250; 49.94806
Country	Azerbaijan
City	Baku
Raion	Sabunçu
Population  (2013)[1]
• Total	33,400
Time zone	UTC+4 (AZT)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+5 (AZT)

Sabunçu (also, Sabunchi and Sabunchy, Azeri for "soapmaker") is a settlement and municipality in Baku, Azerbaijan.^[2] It has a population of 22,344.

Until the beginning of the 20th century, the Sabunçu region was producing 35 percent of Baku's oil. It was also the place where the first, Baku-Sabunchu electrified railway system in USSR, built by Chingiz Ildyrym in 1924 was established.

The town, seat of Sabunçu raion, is located in the north-eastern suburb of the city of Baku and is part of its metropolitan area, situated 12 km from Baku International Airport "Heydar Aliyev".

Baku suburban railway

• Nikolai Baibakov — People's Commissar of the USSR Oil Industry (1944–1946), Oil Minister of the USSR (1948–1955), Hero of Socialist Labor.^[3]
• Richard Sorge — one of the best-known Soviet intelligence officers of the Second World War, Hero of the Soviet Union.^[4]
• Igor Ashurbeyli
• Ashurbeyov-Well-known family