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Okhura Kochyo, 223

Oklahoma, 303

Oleg Svyatoslavovich, Prince, 8

Oleonaphthas, 102

Ölschläger, Adam, 6

Omsk–Irkutsk pipeline, 288

OMV, 375

ONGK Videsh Ltd., 346

OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries), 381

Operation Barbarossa, 264–65, 268

Opochinin, Mikhail, 22

Orakhelashvili, Mamia, 191

Orenburg, 22–23

Orenburg gas field, 353

Orenburg Region, 286

Orjonikidze, Sergo, 174, 184, 186, 190, 191, 253, 258

Orlovsky, K. I., 72

Osinov, Valery, 135

OSOTOP (Special Council on Fuel), 151–52

Osterman, Andrey, 18, 414

Ostrovsky, Mikhail, 76, 77, 111

P

P. O. Ter-Gukasov & Co., 147

Palashkovsky, Sergey, 95

Pallas, Pëtr, 25–26

Pamir, Necdet, 376

Pankin, Aleksandr, 297

Paris Peace Conference (1919), 183

Parliamentarianism, 139, 142, 143

Party Congresses

10th (1921), 175, 194

15th (1927), 251

16th (1930), 249

20th (1956), 288–89

23rd (1966), 290

26th (1981), 310–11, 313

27th (1986), 316, 318

Paul I, Emperor, 26–27, 414

Pavlichinsky, A., 122

Pavlov, Aleksey, 53

Pavlov, Dmitry, 265

Peak oil production, 330

Peasants, 160

Pechora Company, 66

Pechora-Kolva gas region, 336

Pechora Territory, 21, 66

Pedanius Dioscorides, 2

Pelevin, Ya., 247

Pennsylvania kerosene, 44–46

Pennsylvania oil, 54, 55, 66

Pennsylvania oil fields, 89

People’s Commissariat for Defense, 265

People’s Commissariat for Foreign Affairs (NKID), 168, 188

People’s Commissariat for Foreign Trade (NKVT), 206

People’s Commissariat for Heavy Machine-Building (Narkomtyazhprom), 277

People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD), 272

People’s Commissariat for the Oil Industry (Narkomnefti), 266, 276, 278, 282

Perm, 243–51

Permanent Commission for Technical and Scientific Relations with America, 232

Perm Region, 245, 275, 287

Persazneft, 220

Perschke, Ludwig, 74, 122, 137

Perschke, Stanislav, 74

Persia, 15–17, 29, 81, 220

Persians, 135, 136

Pervukhin, Mikhail, 266, 430–31

Peshkov, N., 291

Peter Alekseyevich, Tsar, 11

Peters, Vladimir, 62

Petersburg Treaty (1723), 17

Peter the Great, 13–17, 26, 415

Petrograd Duma, 153

PetroKazakhstan, 363

Petrolea, 220

Petroleum Storage Tanks and Transportation Co. Ltd., 124

Petrol Grozny Ltd., 196

Petrov, Grigory, 182

Petrov, Nikolay, 102

Petrozavodsk, 45

Phanagoria Refinery, 63–64

Phillips Petroleum, 306

Pichugin, Ivan Mikhaylovich, 250

Piltun-Astokh field, 348

Pipeline Agreement (1945), 273

Pipelines

in post-Soviet period, 333–35, 337, 359, 362–63, 371–76

in Russian Empire, 119–23, 120–23, 147

in Soviet period, 192, 195, 196, 206, 252, 257, 262, 274, 281, 287, 288, 296–97, 300, 310

Pitoyev & Co. Partnership, 97

Pliny the Elder, 2

Plutarch, 2

Pogodin, Mikhail, 47

Poincaré, Raymond, 199

Polevoy, Pëtr, 119, 259

Politburo, 185, 190, 193, 194, 197–98, 207, 230, 232, 238, 316

Political dogmatism, 309–11

Political reforms, 139–41

Polivanov, D., 83

Polovtsy, 8, 400

Pörzgen, Gemma, 368

Potassium salt, 244–45

Poverty Committees, 170–71

Pozdnyakov, Prokopy, 245

Preobrazhensky, Pavel, 243–47

Pre-Yenisey oil and gas subprovince, 338

Price controls, 152, 165, 168

Prigorodnoye, 348

Prigorodny, 347

Primorsk, 362

Prison labor, 238–43

Prits, Kirill, 248

Privatization, 326–27

Productivity, 170, 309

Protectionism, 21

Provisional Government, 153–55, 159

Pryadunov, Fëdor Savelyevich, 19–21

Puplava, Jim, 380

Purtales, Friedrich von, 150

Pushnikov, Mikhail, 10

Putin, Vladimir V., 335, 438

Pyak-Yakha gas-condensate field, 338

Pylayev, G., 165

Q

Qizilbash oil, 9

Quitrent, 37–40

R

Radek, Karl, 230, 431

Ragozin, R. I., 84

Ragozin, Viktor, 101–3, 415–16

Railroads, 95, 102, 110, 131, 147, 199, 238, 242, 281

Raselli, Fëdor, 90

Rashpil, Major General, 60

Raskolnikov, Fëdor, 163

Raspopov, L., 291

Rasulzade, Mammed Amin, 177, 180, 192

Rationing, 169, 171

Ratov, Vasily, 21

RCP(b). See Russian Communist Party (of Bolsheviks)

Red Army, 189, 191, 192, 198, 265, 266, 268, 269, 271

“Red Line Agreement,” 223

Red Navy, 271, 272

Redwood, Boverton, 100, 126

Refining technology, 101–2, 214, 215

Renewable energy sources, 377

Resolution 8458 (State Defense Committee), 277

Revolution of 1905, 135–37

Reytern, Mikhail, 93, 101

Right Socialist-Revolutionaries, 161

Right Social Revolutionaries, 159, 160

RN-Astra, 346

RN-Purneftegaz, 359

Robinson V., 301, 307

Rockefeller, John D., 128, 131, 132, 202, 204, 208, 211, 227, 228–29, 232

Rodzyanko, Mikhail, 142, 416–17

Roi, Patrice, 307

Romania, 264, 375

Romanino field, 96

Romanov, Boris, 132

Romanov, Mikhail, 76, 77

Romanovsky, Gennady, 52–53, 55, 56, 61, 63–64, 66, 417

Romanovsky, Nikolay, 76, 92

Romashkino oil field, 284, 311

Roosevelt, Theodore, 132

Rosgidromet, 350

Rosneft, 326, 340–41, 343, 344, 347, 348, 386–88

Rosneftgaz, 341

Rostislav Novogorodsky, Prince, 8

Rothschild, Alphonse James de, 110, 148

Rothschild family, 110–12, 147

Royal Dutch Shell, 148, 150, 196, 201, 202, 208, 210, 218–19, 220, 222–23, 226, 228, 347, 348

Rozen, G. V., 35

Rozengolts (Commissar of Foreign Trade), 254

Rtishchev, Nikolay, 29–30

Rudloff, Hans-Joerg, 341

Rules (1872), 78

Rumyantsev, K., 249

Rurhchemie AG, 263

Rusanov, Dmitry, 239

Rusanova field, 333

Rusanovsky, Aleksandr, 113, 114

Russian Academy of Sciences, 331, 333

Russian-Asian Bank, 148

Russian Association of Oil and Gas Equipment Manufacturers, 352

Russian Communist Party (of Bolsheviks) [RCP(b)], 174, 184–85, 188, 190–94, 197, 198, 207

Russian General Oil Corporation, 148

Russian Imperial State Council, 120

Russian North. See Arctic regions

“Russian Oil Craze,” 63–65

Russian Oil Products, Ltd. (ROP), 219, 221, 225–26

Russian Sakhalin Petroleum Company, 118

Russian Socialist Democratic Labor Party (of Bolsheviks), 161

Russneft, 386, 394–95

Russo-Japanese War, 118, 132

Russo-Turkish War, 40, 42, 56, 97

Ruttenstorfer, Wolfgang, 375

Ryazanov, Ivan, 26

Ryazantsev, Nikolay, 244

Rychkov, Pëtr, 22, 25, 417

Rykov, Aleksey, 194, 207, 230, 431

S

S. I. Shibayev & Co. Partnership, 104

Sabakhtarishvili, K., 190

Sabunchu, 96, 134

Sahib Giray, Khan, 40

St. Petersburg, kerosene lighting in, 44–45

St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, 25, 37

St. Petersburg Economic Forum, 361

St. Petersburg International Bank, 112

St. Petersburg Mining School, 26

St. Petersburg Technological Institute, 68, 102

Sakhalin, 117–19, 223–24, 281, 282, 333, 346–48

Sakhalin-1, 346–47

Sakhalin-2, 347–48

Sakhalin-3, 347

Sakhalin and Amur Petroleum Syndicate, 118, 119

Sakhalin Energy, 348

Sakhalinmorneftegaz-Shelf, 346

Sakhalinneft Trust, 257

Sakhalin Oil and Gas Development Co., Inc., 346

Sal (English firm), 208