The View From Your Window Contest: Winner #15

A reader writes:

Now we're talking.  This one is challenging, I suppose to balance out last week's easy one. At first glance, from the blue sky and waterfront background, I'd lean Mediterranean, perhaps a Lebanon location or Cyprus.  But after careful inspection, the tractor and buildings have a Soviet feel to them.  A water location that is Soviet and arid ... well, I can only make one educated guess.  I'll have to say the city of Baku in Azerbaijan, along the coast of the Caspian Sea...