Gosplan. See State Planning Committee
Grand Mereya (liquified natural gas carrier), 348
Graver Corporation, 224, 233
Great Britain, 97–101, 130, 137, 183, 220–22, 225, 226, 228, 254, 273, 274, 347, 355
Great Depression, 226
Great Patriotic War. See World War II
Great Reforms, 74
Greece, 371–72
“Greek fire,” 3, 4, 7
Greeks, ancient, 1–4
Grey, Captain, 98
Grigoryev, Pavel, 105
Gross national product (GNP), 329
Grozneft, 197, 206, 227, 237, 247, 249, 253, 259
Grozny–Black Sea oil pipeline, 196
Grozny District, 75–76, 149, 154, 194, 195, 237, 279
Grozny-Dnepr Oil Industrial Company, 115–16
Grozny fields, 171–72, 174, 276
Grozny Petroleum Industry Company, 114, 116
Grozny region, 113–17
Gruzinsky, Georgy, 112
Gryzlov, Boris, 345
GS-Caltex Corp., 348
Gubkin, Ivan, 146, 165, 197, 246, 249, 255–56, 426
Gubkin gas field, 292
Gubonin, Pëtr, 46, 76, 79, 81, 96, 404–5
Guchkov, Aleksandr, 142, 405
Gudovich, Ivan, 56–57
Gukasov, Pavel, 96
Gukovsky, Isidor, 165
GULAG (Main Administration of Prison Camps), 241
Güldenstädt, Johann Anton, 37–38
Gulishambarov, Stepan, 106
Gurgan offshore oil field, 281
Guryev, Aleksey, 50, 58
Gusev, K., 83
GUT (Main Administration for Fuel), 209
H
Hague International Financial and Economic Conference, 204–5
Hajinski, Mammad Hasan Jafargulu oglu, 178
Halder, Franz, 268–69
Halliburton Co., 343, 353
Hamdullah al-Qazwini, 5
Harris & Dixon Ltd., 222
Hay, John, 132
Heinz, V., 301, 307
Helmersen, Gregor von, 56
Heracles, Emperor, 5
Herodotus, 2
Hess, Henri, 35
Heydarov, Ibrahim bey, 178
Hippocrates, 2
Hitler, Adolf, 263, 264, 268–69
Hoeven, Maria van der, 347
Höfer, Hans von, 68
Hosayntan Hosayn, Shah Soltan, 15, 16
Hubbert, King, 330
Hughes, Charles Evans, 202
Hungary, 374–75
Huseynov, Mirza Davud Baghir, 185, 190
Hydrogenation, 263–64
Hypatian Chronicle, 8
Hyundai Corp., 348
I
I. A. Akhverdov & Co. Grozny Oil Industrial Company, 115, 116
I. A. Yegiazarov & Co. Oil Industry Company, 97
Ibn Miskawayh, 5
Ice-resistant stationary platforms (IRPs), 335
Icon painting, 10, 398
Ignatyev, Nikolay, 97
Ignatyevsky, Nikolay, 83
Igolkin, Aleksandr, 251
Igrimgaz, 295
Ilish, Fëder, 47
Imber, Pëtr, 167
Imperial Russian Technical Society (IRTS), 71–72, 92, 93, 104
Imperial Springs, 71, 73
Inchik, Feliks, 116
India, 219, 222–23
Inflation, 170
Information revolution, 308, 309, 330
Injuries, work-related, 138
Institute of Petroleum, 274
Integral-MashServis, 354
International Alternative Energy Forum (Verona, 2009), 381
International Association of Oil Companies in Russia, 208
International Barnsdall Corporation, 206–7
International Energy Agency, 355, 381
International Energy Conference (Vienna, 2009), 383–84
International Geologic Congress, 123, 124
International Monetary Fund (IMF), 324
International Oil and Gas Exhibition (Baku, 1978), 304–8
International Petroleum Congress, 123–28
International Petroleum Congress (Tulsa, 1924), 212
Investment climate, 340–46
Iran, 350
Irkutsk, 11–12, 277, 334
IRPs (ice-resistant stationary platforms), 335
IRTS. See Imperial Russian Technical Society
Irtysh River, 296
Ishibayevo Refinery, 258
Ishimbay oil field, 285
Italy, 219, 222, 225, 373
Ivan Alekseyevich, Tsar, 11
Ivan M. Gubkin Moscow Institute of the Petrochemical and Gas Industry, 306
Ivanov (merchant), 117
Ivanov, Aleksandr, 126
Ivanov, G., 240
Izhevsk Works, 85
Izhma-Pechora gas region, 336
Iznar, Nikolay, 132
J
Japan, 132, 133, 223–24, 277, 347, 348, 377, 380
Jenkins, David, 344
Johansen, R., 301, 307
Joint Soviet-American Working Group, 300–304
Joint State Political Directorate (OGPU), 238–43, 258–59, 399
Joint-stock oil companies, 95
Joinville, Jean de, 5
Jones, Gary, 344
Julius Africanus, 2
K
Kabakov, Ivan, 250
Kachaznuni, Hovhannes, 180
Kachka, Gavriil, 28
Kaganovich, Lazar, 254, 259, 260, 426
Kallinikos, 3, 4
Kama Bulgars, 9
Kama River Valley, 274
Kama Valley, 245, 246, 249
Kamchatka, 348–49
Kamchatneftegaz LLC, 348
Kämpfer, Engelbert, 7
Kankrin, Yegor, 30–31, 31–32, 35, 59, 405–6
Kapelyushnikov, Matvey, 234–38
Kapitsa, Pëtr, 381
Karachaganak Integrated Organization (KIO), 362–63
Karachaganak oil and gas field, 362–63
Karakhan, Lev M., 188, 189, 207
Kara Sea, 333
Karelin, Vladimir, 163
Karpinsky, Aleksandr, 123
Karpinsky, Captain, 31
Kasyan, Sargis, 188–89
Katanga District, 344
Katip Celebi (Haji Khalifa), 6
Kawachi, Hirofumi, 347
Kawasaki Kisen Kaisha, Ltd., 348
Kazakhstan, 267, 270, 350, 362, 365–67
Kazan Province, 50
Kazbek Syndicate Company, 117
KazMunayGas, 362, 363
KCA Deutag, 353
KChNTO. See Caspian and Black Sea Oil Industrial and Trading Company
Kerch, 41, 42
Kerensky, Aleksandr, 153, 160, 406–7
Kerosene, 74, 76, 79, 91–94, 168, 190, 206, 208–9, 218–23, 239–41, 255, 257, 258, 262, 273, 344
Kerosene wars, 128–33
Keyserling, Alexander, 66
Khabarovsk Refinery, 344
Khalafi Partnership, 80
Khan Kolchak, 8
Kharichkov, Konstantin, 116–17
Khaydag field, 257
Kherkheulidze, Zakhar, 41–42
Khinchuk, Lev, 232
Khizhnyakov, Sergey, 135
Khodorkovsky, Mikhail, 436–7
Kholdyrev, Konstantin, 248
Khomyakov, Nikolay, 141–42, 407
Khoyski, Fatali Khan, 180, 186
Khrushchëv, Nikita, 285, 289–90, 316, 426–7
Khurgin, Isay, 210
Khurgin, Zinovy, 240
Khvalynsk field, 336
Kievan Rus, 7–9
Kinzebulatovo field, 275
KIO (Karachaganak Integrated Organization), 362–63
Kirillov, Ivan, 37
Kirov, Sergey M., 186, 189, 191, 236, 237, 427
Kislyansky, Leonty, 11–13
Kizyl-Tene, 257
KKC (Korea Kamchatka Co. Limited), 348
Klee (engineer), 118
Klënovka oil field, 288
KNOC (Korean National Oil Company), 348
Kochubey, Pëtr, 104, 107
Kogan, Lazar, 241
Kohtla-Jarve, 280
Kojima, Yorihiko, 347
Kokorev, Vasily, 46, 47, 48, 76, 79, 81, 84, 92, 119, 407–8
Kolchak, Aleksandr, 172
Komi ASSR, 300
Komi Autonomous Region, 238, 239
Komi Republic, 336
Konda River, 296
Kondratyev, Nikolay, 171
Konshin, Afanasy, 113
Konstantinovka Refinery, 69
Konstantin Shcherbatov, Prince, 12
Korea, 226
Korea Gas Corp., 348
Korea Kamchatka Co. Limited (KKC), 348
Korean National Oil Company (KNOC), 348
Kortunov, Aleksey, 290, 294
Korvet, 354
Korzukhin (engineer), 146
Koschkull, Friedrich von, 62
Koshkarov, Nikolay, 123
Kosior, Iosif, 197, 247, 428
Kosolapkin, Ivan, 239, 240
Kosygin, Aleksey, 266, 289, 290, 297, 305, 428
Kotb, A., 301
Kovalevsky, V. I., 126
Kozmino oil terminal, 335
Kraft, R., 83