| 2008-03-31 |
Published: REGIONS.RU |
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The authorities of Surgut city carefully reconstructed a good Siberian house, a Russian bath and backhouses where Farman Salmanov, a 28-year old geologist, settled a half a century ago. There is an only new building there: a styled oilrig, a famous dummy exploratory well commissioned by Salmanov at the time. Its oil gusher dispelled doubts of eminent scientist and pawed the way to hydrocarbons of Western Siberia.
Soon after that, his reputation of the discoverer of gigantic oil-and-gas reservoirs became known around the globe. He was a great grafter. He continued working and discovered unique beds of oil and natural gas: Mamontovskoye, Megionskoye, Pravdinskoye, Surgutskoye, Urenoyskoye and Yamburgskoye… totally over 150 of them. They actually made the basis of the oil and gas complex of the country. There is no similar phenomenal achievement in the world practice.
It has been a year since Farman Kurbanovich Salmanov passed away. Farman Kurbanovich Salmanov was hero of socialist labor, Lenin Prize winner and Gubkin Prize winner, doctor of geological-mineralogical science, a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and a merited geologist of Russia, an honorary citizen of the Khanty-Mansiyskiy and the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Districts, and Surgut city, as well as the State of Texas (USA) and the city of Jinzhou (PRC). Grateful descendants opened a Museum Complex devoted to Salmanov, gave his name to one of the streets and a vocational school in Surgut. Young geologists had accomplished an expedition on float-boats in the Ob River along the route that the first landing force of exploration geologists headed by Farman Kurbanovich used a half a century ago (from Surgut to Tundrino settlement). Farman Salmanov, a comfortable diesel-propelled ship, left on its maiden voyage in the first open water of the Ob River and the Gulf of Ob. A competition for monument to Salmanov has been announced in Khanty-Mansiysk.
Farman Kurbanovich, a native of Shamkhor, an Azerbaijani village, went through the length and breadth of Western Siberia within 40 years. He loved this area as much as he loved Russia, and used to say our country was stone rich. "The third Tyumen" is hidden under the waters of the Kara Sea, - he used to say. At the same time he warned that "the times of easy oil and easy gas have gone; an era of super deep drilling is coming".
Salmanov, a great geologist and oilman, was an adviser to Chairman of the Board of ITERA Oil and Gas Company and head of the Board of Directors of Yugneftegaz until his very last day. He wrote a lot. He was an author of dozens of monographs and hundreds of scientific papers. Salmanov issued two books on the eve of his 75th jubilee: Life as a discovery, and I am a politician. The books are serious works. There are still a number of bright pages in the biography of this legendary person. The REGIONS.RU/Novosti Federatsii (News of the Federation) correspondent has learned these would be presented in a new book to come off the press soon on ITERA’s initiative and with its financial assistance.
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