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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

Kramatorsk, 277

Kramer, D., 301

Krasin, Leonid, 194–98, 201–3, 205, 207, 428–29

Krasnodar, 269, 286

Krasnokamsk, 250, 275

Krasnoyarsk Territory, 333

Krasny Selkup District, 342

Kravchuk, Leonid, 323

Kretov, Anatoly, 297

Kritsman, Lev, 164

Krivonogov, Aleksandr, 291

Krusenstern, Paul, 66

Krutoy, 275

Krylov, Aleksandr, 312, 319

Krzhizhanovsky, Gleb, 174–75, 197, 251–52

Kuban Region, 57–60, 61, 62–63, 64, 79, 101, 112, 114, 145–47, 149–50, 151

Kudako River, 62, 64

Kudryavtsev, Nikolay, 276

Kuhara, 223

Kuhn, Loeb&Co.,133

Kukudzhanov (entrepreneur), 43

Kulevsky, Aleksandr, 239–40

Kumho Petrochemical, 348

Kumkol–Jusali oil pipeline, 363

Kurmangazi, 362

Kurnakov, Nikolay, 244

Kuromiya, Hiroaki, 252–53

Kursk, Battle of, 276

Kursk, Comrade, 198

Kuvykin, S., 270

Kuvykin, Stepan, 289

Kuybyshev, Valerian, 249

Kuybyshevneft, 270

Kuybyshev Region, 275, 295

Kyoto Protocol, 356

L

Labor

militarization of., 173

prison, 238–43

Labor shortages, 266

Labor unions, 137–39

Labor unrest, 134–36

Landau, David, 112

Landau, Lev, 112

Langel, I., 50

Latkin, Vasily, 65

Laverov, Nikolay, 331

“Law on Leasing of Treasury Lands,” 148–49

Layton, A., 301, 307

Lazarev (businessman), 244

Lazarev, Count, 95

Lazarev, Mikhail, 121

Lazyan, Ivan, 191

Learned Mining Committee, 73

Lebedev, Aleksey, 68

Lebedev, Nikolay, 126

Lebëdkin, Ivan, 126

Lednëv, Nikolay, 259

Lee, Ivy, 227, 229–34

Left Socialist-Revolutionaries, 161, 163

Left Social Revolutionaries, 159, 160

Legran, Boris, 189

Lehmann, Christian, 20, 22

Lend-Lease, 270–74

Lenin, Vladimir, 155, 159–61, 163–64, 168, 172–74, 177, 180–82, 186–92, 194, 243, 429–30

Leningrad field, 333

Lepëkhin, Ivan, 25, 408

Lerche, Johann, 17–18

Leschot, Rodolphe, 125

Lesueur, Michel, 125, 127

Levandovsky, Mikhail, 186

Leykhtenbergsky, Gertsog, 76

Lianozov, Stepan, 79

Liebig, Justus von, 47

Lighthouses, 106

Liquified natural gas (LNG), 349–50

Liquified petroleum gas (LPG), 358–59

Lisenko, Konon, 63, 83, 85, 93

List, Gustav, 69

Litevsky, Gavriil, 60

Litvinov, Maksim, 204, 231

“Living fire,” 8–9

Lloyd George, David, 199, 201–3

Loginov (farmer), 241

Lomonosov, Mikhail, 23–24, 70

Lomov, Georgy, 217–18, 430

London, Noy, 259

Lopatin, P. A., 67

Lopukhin, Vladimir, 324

Lopukhovaya hydrocarbon parcel, 349

Lossau, M. D., 20

Louis IX, King, 5

Louis XV, King, 124

Lubricants, 101–2

Lubricating and Fuel Oils Ltd., 222

Lubs, Johann, 17

Lugovsky, Mikhail, 19

LUKOIL, 326, 327, 335–38, 350, 352, 354, 359–65, 370, 385–86, 388–90

LUKOIL-Kaliningradmorneft, 355, 389

LUKOIL–Western Siberia LLC, 338, 389

Lunacharsky, Anatoly, 159

Lunskoye, 348

Luzanov, Lieutenant Colonel, 36

Lvov, Fëdor, 92

Lyadov, Mikhail, 197

M

Main Administration for Fuel (GUT), 209

Main Administration of Prison Camps (GULAG), 241

Main Administration of the Northern Sea Route (Glavsevmorputi), 272