Ust-Balyk field, 295
Ust-Balyk region, 292
Usubbeyov, Nasib bey, 178
Utsuda, Shoei, 347
Uzbekistan, 365
V
V. I. Ragozin & Co. Partnership, 102, 106
Vacuum Oil Company, 228
Vakhitov, Gadel, 301, 302, 303
Vankor oil and gas field, 334
Varandey Oil Loading Terminal, 337
Vasilenko, Aleksandr, 128, 176
Vasilyev, Aleksey, 29
Vasilyev, Viktor, 256
Vat-Yëgan field, 360
Vazeyskoye oil field, 300
Vedeneyev, Yevgeny, 122
Veer, Jeroen van der, 347
Verey-Namurian oil field, 275
Verkhnechonskneftegaz, 344, 354
Verkhnechusovskiye Gorodki, 245, 246, 248, 249, 250
Verkhne-Izhma District, 275
Verkhovsky, Vasily, 18
Vermishev gusher, 80
Vernadsky, Vladimir, 24
Vertically integrated oil companies (VIOCs), 325–29
Veyser, B., 115
Victoria Oil & Gas, 34
Vishnyak, Mikhail, 162
Vladikavkaz Railroad, 116, 147, 199
Vladimir Filanovsky field, 336
VNITON (All-Union Scientific Engineering and Technical Society of Oil Workers), 256
Volga region, 22–23, 25, 49–54, 88, 270, 274
Volga-Urals region, 275, 283–89, 344
Vollendorf, Senior Manager, 58–59
Voloshanovsky, Andrey, 240
Volynsky, Artemy, 14, 16
Vonevin, Stepan, 25, 37
Vorontsov, Mikhail, 39, 41, 42, 44
Voskoboynikov, Nikolay, 31–37, 58
Voskresensky, Aleksandr, 47
Voynovsky-Kriger, Konstantin, 241
Voytsekhovich, Yevgeny, 292
Voyvot–Ukhta pipeline, 274
Voyvozh gas field, 276
Vratsyan, Simon, 188
Vronchenko, Fëdor, 43, 419
Vronchenko, Mikhail, 54
VSNKh. See Supreme Council for the National Economy
VTsIK (All-Russian Central Executive Committee), 160, 397
Vyborg, 372
Vyshnegradsky, Ivan, 111
W
War communism, 169–75, 206, 210
Wardwell, Allen, 229
Wartenburg, L., 120–21
Water management, 286, 312, 318–19
Watkins, J. Wade, 301, 306
Weatherford International Ltd., 343, 354
Weitzenbreyer, Yakov, 90
Well bailing, 80
Werden, Karl von, 15, 16
Western Europe–Western China International Transit Corridor, 365
Western Siberia
in post-Soviet period, 332–33, 337–38, 343, 352–53, 360
in Soviet period, 290–99, 310–12, 314–15, 317, 318
Westminster Bank, 222
West Siberian Resources, 344
West Surgut field, 295
Whale oil, 98
Wilmington oil field, 303
Wingas GmbH, 342
Winkler-Koch Corporation, 224, 233
Wintershall, 342
Wintershall Holding, 372
Wirtschaftsgruppe Kraftindustrie, 263
Witsen, Nicolaes, 11
Witte, Sergey, 120, 125, 139, 419–20
Wojslaw, Sigismund, 127
World Bank, 329
World oil prices, 315, 328, 330
World’s Columbian Exposition (Chicago, 1893), 108, 123
World’s Fair (Paris, 1889), 107
World Trade Organization, 356
World War I, 119, 143, 150–53, 199–200
World War II, 263–77, 372
and Lend-Lease, 270–74
role of Soviet oilmen and scientists in, 274–77
Worthington Pump Company, 122, 125
Wrecking, 259
Wroblewski, Eduard, 68
X
Xenophon, 1
Y
Yablonevoy Gorge, 275
Yagoda, Genrikh, 258–59
Yaguzhinsky, Pavel, 13
Yakutia, 333–34
Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District, 338, 339, 342, 343
Yamal Peninsula, 333
Yaqut al-Hamawi, 5
Yareyyu–South Khylchuyu gas pipeline, 337
Yarina–Kamenny Log field, 288
Yaroslavl, 233
Yartsev, Anikita, 30
Ydzhid-Kyrt region, 241
Yefremov (commander), 186
Yelshanka–Saratov pipeline, 274
Yeltsin, Boris, 323, 326, 327, 439–40
Yeremeyev, Pavel, 52, 53
Yermak drilling rig, 355
Yermolayev, P., 247
Yerofeyev, Vasily, 123
Yevdeyev, Roman, 11
Yevdokimov, Nikolay, 64
Yukos, 326, 327, 343, 436–37
Yurubchen-Tokhomo oil and gas field, 334
Yury Korchagin field, 335–36
Yushkin, Yevgeny, 76, 115, 145, 149–50
Z
Zabelsky, Ivan, 87
Zavadovsky, Nikolay, 58
Zheleznyakov, Anatoly, 163
Zhemchuzhin, Semën, 241
Zhigalovsky, Nikolay, 241
Zhirnovsk, 288
Zhordania, Noe, 177, 180, 191, 192
Zhukov, Yury, 218
Zinin, Nikolay, 47
Zorkin, Leonid, 301
Zoroastr (oil tanker), 87
Zotov, Grigory, 117
Zubalov Company, 154
Zubrinsky, Pavel, 23
Acknowledgments
The book you see before you is yet another result of my six years’ work supervising a creative team of scientists to realize the plan of the Oil and Gas Section at the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (RANS), which was preparing to publish a scientific historical trilogy: The Eve of the Petroleum Era [Predvestiye ery nefti] (2003), Soviet Union’s Oil [Neft strany Sovetov] (2005), and New Russia’s Oil [Neft novoy Rossii] (2007), which was to fill in many gaps in the history of the Russian oil industry.
I would like to express once again my gratitude to all the colleagues and collaborators who participated in this project and thereby made a substantial contribution to reconstructing an objective picture of the events of our distant and recent past in this key branch of the Russian economy.
I am especially grateful to Professor Aleksandr Vasilenko, Doctor of Political Science and Academician of the RANS, for his active assistance in the work on this book, which contributed many productive and mature thoughts and ideas.
I am also very thankful to Alexander Matveychuk, Candidate of History and Academician of the RANS, for his valuable advice and recommendations, which proved very constructive in the writing of this book.
I also express my deep gratitude to the following people for their assistance and great help: Professor Gadel Vakhitov, Academician of the RANS and Doctor of Engineering; Professor Aleksey Salomatin, Doctor of History; Boris Shpotov, Doctor of History; Irina Dyakonova, Doctor of History; Yury Zhukov, Doctor of History; Professor Yury Yershov, Doctor of Economics; Professor Vladimir Kostornichenko, Doctor of Economics; Professor Aleksandr Bessolitsyn, Doctor of Economics, Professor Lenfrid Borozinets, Candidate of History; Sergey Dëgtev, Candidate of History; Olga Romanovskaya, Candidate of Engineering; and Mikhail Subbotin, Candidate of Economics.
I would also like to pay due respect in memory of the following project participants, who passed away prematurely in the last three years: Professor Igor Fuks, Academician of the RANS and Doctor of Engineering; Professor Aleksandr Igolkin, Corresponding Member of the RANS and Doctor of History; Professor Vladislav Kashchavtsev, Doctor of Engineering; and historian Valery Osinov.
About the Author
Vagit Alekperov was born September 1, 1950 in Baku, in an oilman’s family. His father returned from World War II with a serious wound. After devoting the last eight years of his life fully to the Baku oil fields, he passed on when Vagit was three, leaving his widow Tatyana Alekperova with five children: three daughters and two sons.
Vagit Alekperov entered the work force in 1968 as a laboratory assistant in the hydromechanical laboratory of the Azerbaijan Scientific Research Institute of Oil Production. During his studies at the Meshadi Azizbeyov Azerbaijan Oil and Chemistry Institute, he mastered the occupation of oil and gas production operator. In 1974, on graduating from the institute, he received the specialty of mining engineer in the technology and comprehensive mechanization of oil and gas field development. That same year, he was appointed senior production engineer at Kaspmorneft [Caspian Offshore Oil] Production Association.