Dear freshmen! I sincerely congratulate each of you on the occasion of the beginning of the 2021-2022 academic year and wish you success in your education as a student of SSU. I always call on you to glorify the name of Sumgayit State University and make your worthy contribution to the progress of our independent country.

Dear students! You are entering an important stage of your life today. During these years, you will live the most meaningful period of your life, you will appreciate it later, you will relive it in your memories. Try to always use the conditions created for you at the university to bring honor and glory to the name of Sumgayit State University.

Student years are the most memorable period of a person"s life. Over the years, as a university team, we will work to open the doors of science to you and train you as high-level specialists. For this purpose, new, modern laboratories were purchased for the university, an electronic scientific library, an open-air training museum on electric power and a high-voltage substation were established to strengthen the practical knowledge of our students. Over the past few years, a group of our students has been sent to a number of universities around the world to participate in international competitions and scientific conferences. The results obtained by students in the semester and course exams show that our efforts were not in vain.

Every successful staff member is also an ambassador of the university where he / she studied. I hope that your achievements in the coming years will be written in the book of honor of the university. Just as you proudly chose Sumgayit State University, we will be proud of you as our students.

Dear students! Thanks to the political wisdom and determination of the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Republic of Azerbaijan, President Ilham Aliyev, the courage and bravery of our soldiers and officers, the unity of the people and the army, our ancestral lands were liberated from enemy occupation. I would like to note with high pride that students and graduates of our native university are among those who raised the tricolor Victory Flag in our ancient lands, which were liberated from Armenian slavery. The victory was not only the greatest victory of 2020, but also the greatest victory of recent centuries! In this Battle of Victory, dozens of graduates, students and employees of Sumgayit State University and their families fought heroically, showed courage and won the title of victorious soldier. Victory in the Great Patriotic War also cost the blood of thousands of our martyrs. We bow to the souls of our martyrs with deep respect and reverence, we remember their memory together.

It is an honor for everyone to be named a student in the year of victory. Dear students! You are the professionals of tomorrow, the citizens of the country who will strengthen our independent state and ensure a bright future for our people.

Although we could not hold a solemn "Knowledge Day" in these difficult days - during the pandemic, I share your joy and wish you good health and success in your future endeavors. I am confident that as a result of the unity of our people, we will be able to overcome the pandemic and meet our students again at our home university.

In conclusion, I urge you to be an example to other people in these difficult pandemic days, and I congratulate you, all the young people who became students in your person, their parents, teachers, and wish you good health and success. May the Almighty God always be with you.