«Oil prospecting of the Volzhsky district shall be stopped halfway» (About the mining engineer N.S. Obukhovsky who has been the head of this prospecting authority)
The article is devoted to the life and the fate of the unfairly forgotten mining engineer Nikolay Stepanovitch Obukhovsky who has been victim of political repression in 1930-ies and to the disclosure of the activity of the Volga oil prospecting, Obukhovsky was the head of this authority in 19191924....
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Samara National Research University
2023-01-01
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| Series: | Вестник Самарского университета: История, педагогика, филология |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.ssau.ru/hpp/article/viewFile/11000/9374 |
| Summary: | The article is devoted to the life and the fate of the unfairly forgotten mining engineer Nikolay Stepanovitch Obukhovsky who has been victim of political repression in 1930-ies and to the disclosure of the activity of the Volga oil prospecting, Obukhovsky was the head of this authority in 19191924. The loss of the main oil-producing regions in Russia during the Civil War, the combusted fuel crisis had moved to the agenda the search for oil in the other regions, including the Volga region, this area has been oil tested even before the revolution (exploration drilling). As a result, the authority of the Volga oil prospecting was established and the oil prospecting works were started. The goals of the study are to recall the life course of the mining engineer N.S. Obukhovsky, to discover the main directions of his management of the Volga region oil prospecting and publishing with the main accent onto the Volga region oil. The authors clear and analyze the originality and the main aspects of functioning of oil fields under extreme conditions of the famine, the chronic shortage of finances, material and technical and human resources as well. The article shows the whole number of disadvantages leading to the disruption of geological oil prospecting work in the Volga region, firstly the extremely poor financing of the performed works, abnormal food shortage, under-staffing and the competition of the old oil-producing southern regions outperformed the Volga territory at that time. The conclusion that the Volga oil prospecting authority managed by N.S. Obukhovsky in the period 19191924 became the first attempt to decide a question about the availability of the Volga oil nationally and the name of the authority director must be entered into the constellation of the Soviet oil-well experts who have taken the first steps on the way to the big oil of the Second Baku is drawn |
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| ISSN: | 2542-0445 2712-8946 |