Farman Salmanov

Farman Salmanow ( Azerbaijani Fərman Qurbanqulu oğlu Salmanov; Russian Фарман Курбан оглы Салманов; * July 28, 1931 in the village of Morul , Şəmkir Province , Azerbaijani Soviet Socialist Republic , USSR- Azerbaijan ; † March 31, 2007 in the village of Morul , Şəmkir Province , Azerbaijani Soviet Socialist Republic , USSR- Azerbaijan ; † March 31, 2007 in Moscow . Pioneer of the vast oil fields in Western Siberia , Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (since 1991), Hero of Socialist Labor (1966), Holder of the Order of Lenin and Honored Geologist of the Russian Federation . He is sometimes referred to as the “godfather” of Siberian oil.

biography

Salmanov grew up with three other siblings in the small village of Morul, which was then called Leninsk, in Shamkhor Province (now Şəmkir). In 1937 his father was a victim of the " Great Terror ". His grandfather took part in the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905) and was honored for his services.

Salmanov graduated from the general school in Şəmkir in 1947 and then worked for a few years as a collector in the complex expedition of the city of Şirvan . In 1954 he graduated from the Azerbaijan Institute of Industry (now Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University ) with a degree in mining engineering and geology .

The search for petroleum

After his studies Salmanov was sent to the Kuznetsk Basin in the Kemerovo Oblast to look for new oil fields. From 1955 to 1957 he worked as the leader of the expedition group for the exploration of new oil and gas reserves in Kemerovo and Novosibirsk . But after two unsuccessful years, he and the members of his expedition group went secretly to Surgut in August 1957 , firmly convinced that they would find oil wells there. However, his opponents and critics in Moscow tried to thwart these plans and to punish him for his "rebellion" in court. Salmanov remained unimpressed and continued to drill for crude oil. In order not to let the situation escalate further, the communist party functionaries finally gave up their resistance after a while.

After almost four years of intensive drilling work, the first oil gushed out in March 1961 near the city of Megion from a depth of 2180 meters. However, Salmanov's opponents claimed it was a natural anomaly. The well would dry up in a few years and in reality there would be no oil reserves in Western Siberia. But critical voices fell silent after the crude oil also reached the surface in large quantities from a second well in Ust-Balik . Salmanov personally sent a telegram to the party leader of the CPSU Nikita Khrushchev with the brief content: “I have found the oil. Salmanov! ".

Further career successes

In the following three decades Salmanow continued his professional activity in Western Siberia. From 1962 to 1964 he was the chief geologist of the oil and gas exploration expedition of Ust-Balik and then until 1970 as head of the oil exploration expedition in Prawdinsk in the Khanty and Mansi Autonomous Okrug . In 1970 he was appointed chief geologist and deputy head of the Tyumen Institute for Geology and Production ("Glawtjumengeologija"). After eight years he was promoted to the chief post of this institution. With Salmanov's direct involvement, up to 130 oil and gas wells, including huge deposits such as Mamontovskoye, Pravdinskoje, Surgutskoye, etc., were developed in western Siberia alone.

In 1987 Salmanov moved to Moscow, where he was appointed the first deputy minister of geology in the USSR. Between 1980 and 1990 he was a member of the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic and the Azerbaijani Soviet Socialist Republic. In addition, Salmanow was editor-in-chief of the scientific and technical journal "Geology of Oil and Gas Production". He has published more than 160 scientific articles and 10 monographs.

The founding of the Russian football club " FK Tyumen " is associated with the name Salmanov.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Salmanow founded the company " Rospan " in 1992 .

In the last years of his life, Salmanov worked as an advisor to the chairman of the board of directors of the Russian gas company " Itera ". In this position he was busy looking for possible oil and gas deposits in the Republic of Kalmykia .

Salmanov died on March 31, 2007 in Moscow and was buried there in the Vagankovo ​​cemetery .

souvenir

• The documents about Salmanov's life's work are kept in the museums of Tyumen Oblast and the city of Surgut.
• In 2008, the scientific and practical youth conference organized by the Siberian Scientific Analysis Center was renamed the “Readings of Salmanov”.
• In 2008, secondary school No. 3 in Surgut was named after Salmanov;
• Monuments in honor of Salmanov have been erected in Moscow, Baku , Surgut, Salekhard and Khanty-Mansiysk . He is also an honorary citizen of the cities of Surgut, Houston and Guangzhou .
• Streets in Surgut and Nizhnevartovsk , an oil and gas condensate field and a motor ship bear Salmanov's name;
• On August 29, 2013, a plaque commemorating Salmanov was unveiled in Tyumen;
• At the beginning of December 2018 it was announced that Farman Salmanow will soon be the new namesake for Surgut International Airport . This emerged from a nationwide vote under the name “Great Names of Russia”, in which Russian citizens were called on to decide on new names for the airports.

Private

Farman Salmanow has a son named Ilja (* 1955). He is the chief physician of Nizhnevartovsk City Hospital No. 3, Honored Doctor of the Russian Federation and a member of the Social Chamber of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug and the Nizhnevartovsk Territorial Committee.

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ Салманов Фарман Курбан оглы (Курбанович). Губкинская Централизованная Библиотечная Система. Retrieved December 21, 2018 (Russian). 
3. ↑ Шеркин Кирилл: Фарман Салманов . МБОУ НШ "Перспектива", Сургут 2018.
4. ↑ Фарман Салманов - самая горячая звезда нашей геологии. July 27, 2017. Retrieved December 21, 2018 (Russian). 
5. ↑ Елена Слободян: Кто такой Фарман Курбан оглы Салманов? December 4, 2018, accessed December 21, 2018 (Russian). 
6. ↑ Открытое первенство города по футболу | ermak-surgut.ru. Retrieved December 21, 2018 . 
7. ↑ Сегодня 84 года со дня рождения первооткрывателя нефти в Сибири Фармана Салманова. July 28, 2015, accessed December 21, 2018 (Russian). 
8. ↑ Салманов Фарман Курбан оглы. Retrieved December 21, 2018 . 
9. ↑ Мемориальную доску Фарману Салманову открыли в Тюмени. August 30, 2013. Retrieved December 21, 2018 (Russian). 
10. ↑ Russia's Surgut airport to be named after Farman Salmanov | Vestnik Kavkaza. Accessed December 21, 2018 (en-EN). 
11. ↑ ФЕДЕРАЛЬНАЯ НАЦИОНАЛЬНО-КУЛЬТУРНАЯ АВТОНОМИЯ АЗЕРБАЙДЖАНЦЕВ РОССИИ: Салманов Фарман Курбан оглын Курбан. July 8, 2018, accessed December 21, 2018 (Russian).