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Salym field, 353

Salym Petroleum Development NV, 342–43

Samara Region, 275

Samotlor–Kholmogory–Surgut oil pipeline, 300

Samotlor oil field, 298, 312

Samueli (English financier), 202

Sandor, Laszlo, 44, 45, 88–90

Sandren, A., 87

Sarabikulovo, 90

Saratovneft, 270

Satellite data, 335

Saudi Arabia, 315, 320

Sazonov, Sergey D., 150

Schlatter, Johann, 25

Schley, Reeve, 229

Schlumberger, 343–44

Schober, Gottlieb, 14

Schrader, L., 301, 307

“Second Baku,” 275, 276, 283–89, 331

Sedin, Ivan, 275, 431–32

Seleznëv, Captain, 106

Selitrennikova (entrepreneur), 146

Senyukov, Vasily, 261

Serbia, 374

Serebrovsky, Aleksandr, 197, 208–17, 232, 234, 259

Serfdom, abolition of, 57–58, 74

Sergeyev, M. I., 296

Serpukhov Plant, 344

Seventh Crusade, 5

Severgazinvest, 343

Shah-Deniz gas-condensate field, 364

Shaim oil field, 291–92, 295, 296

Shaim–Tyumen oil pipeline, 297

Shakhanin, Yakov, 17–19

Shakhty Trial, 258–59

Shalavin, Mikhail, 291

Shamakhy, 9

Shangin, A. N., 255

Shant, Levon, 188

Shaposhnikov, Ivan, 10

Sharkom, 220

Shashin, Dmitry, 248

Shashin, Valentin, 289, 300

Shatalin, Stanislav, 315

Shatsky, N., 274

Shaumian, Stepan, 176–79, 181–82

Shayderov, A., 261

Shchelkachëv, Vladimir N., 282

Shcherbina, Boris, 292

Shchitov, Boris, 301

Shchukin, Nikolay, 120, 121

Shell Salym Development BV, 342–43

Sheynman, Aron L., 189–91

Shibinsky, I., 165

Shidlovsky, V, 291

Shirokshin, Nikolay, 50

Shkapovo oil field, 285

Shmaryov, Aleksey, 289

Shongar, 257

Show trials, 258–59

Shpurov, Igor, 337

Shteyman, Ivan, 72, 77

Shteyngauz (head of Central Shale Fuel Administration), 197

Shtokman Development Company, 349

Shtokman field, 333

Shtukenberg, Aleksandr, 53

Shugurovo, 90, 275

Shukhov, Vladimir, 127

Shumilov, Pëtr, 237–38

Shushkevich, Stanislaw, 323

Shvetsov, Semën, 162

Shvetsov, Vasily, 40

S. & I. Jakeli & Co. Petroleum Industry and Trading Partnership, 95

Siberia, 261. See also Eastern Siberia; Western Siberia

Siberia Energy, 342–43

Siberian Office, 11, 12, 400

Siberian Oil Production Training Center, 343–44

Sibneft, 327

Sibur, 357

Sidanco, 327

Sidorov, Mikhail K., 65–70, 417–18

Sidorov, Sergey, 239

Siemens, Friedrich, 73

Siemens, Karl, 70–73

Siemens, Otto, 71–72

Siemens, Walter, 71

Siemens, Werner, 70, 73

Siemens, Wilhelm, 73

Siemens Brothers, 70–74

Siemens & Halske, 70, 71, 72, 73, 106

Sikorsky, Karl, 62

Silliman, Benjamin, 19

Sinclair Oil Corporation, 214

Sivkov, Aleksey, 90

Skalkovsky, Konstantin, 112

Skaya, Eduard, 239

SK Corp., 348

Skobelev, Matvey, 163

Skobelev, Mikhail, 97, 155

Slantsy, 280

Slavneft, 386, 394

Slepyan, Aron, 294

Slutsky, Semën, 259

Slyusarev (geologist), 245

Smerds, 8

Smilga, Comrade, 198

Smith, William, 54

Sobolev, Aleksandr, 21

Sobolevsky, Vladimir, 291

SOCAR (State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic), 364

Soccer, 217

Social Democrat Internationalists, 160

Social Democrats, 140

Socialist Revolutionaries, 160

Socialist-Revolutionary Party, 162–63

Società Italo-Americana del Petrolio, 130

Société d’Emba Grosny company, 199

Société des Pétroles Essences, Naphtes, 198–99

Société pour le Transport du Naphte de Grosny, 199

Society of Drilling Engineers, 125

Sokolnikov, Grigory, 226

Sokolov, Nikolay, 47

Solikamsk, 244

Solovyëv, N., 165

South Balyk oil field, 295

South Khylchuyu field, 336–37

South Pyzhino well, 338

South Russian field, 342

South Stream AG, 374, 375

South Stream pipeline, 373–74

Soymonov, Fëdor, 15, 16

Soymonov, Mikhail, 26

Soyuzneft. See All-Union Oil Industry Association

Spain, 222

Sparafy, Nikolay, 12

Special Council on Fuel (OSOTOP), 151–52

Stakhanov movement, 311

Stalin, Joseph, 175, 178, 180–82, 185, 189–92, 231, 248–49, 254, 259, 265, 278, 289, 432–33

Standard Oil Company, 97, 128–32, 137, 201, 203, 208, 210–13, 218, 219, 221, 223, 224, 226, 228–29

Standard Oil of New Jersey, 228

Standard Oil of New York, 228, 236

Standartneftegaz-2008 conference (Moscow), 352

Stanishev, Sergey, 374

Staroselsky, Actual State Councilor, 92

State Bank (Gosbank), 208

State Commission for the Electrification of Russia (GOELRO), 174

State Council, 140

State Defense Committee (GKO), 276, 277

State Duma, 139–44, 148–49, 345

State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR), 364

State Planning Committee (Gosplan), 205, 218, 224, 251–52, 280

State Savings Bank, 323

State socialism, 313

Statoil, 364

Statoil Hydro, 349

Stettinius, Edward R., Jr., 273–74

Steward Ltd., 116

Stomonyakov, Comrade, 198

Stosur, George, 301, 307

Strategic Petroleum Reserve, 320

Strikes, 134–35

Strizhov, Ivan, 197, 215, 224–25, 259

Stroganov (businessman), 244

Sugihara, J., 301

Sukhorukov (merchant), 40

Sulzer AG, 344–45

Sumitomo, 223

Supreme Council for the National Economy (VSNKh), 160, 165–68, 170, 171, 174, 180, 196, 201, 206, 207, 209, 215, 242–44, 246–49, 251–52, 259

Supreme Soviet, 278, 292

Surabekov, Grigory, 259

Surakhany (Surakhany Refinery), 7, 31, 35, 36, 46–49, 75, 76, 79, 83, 84, 110, 119, 127, 137, 145

Surgutneft, 295

Surgutneftegaz, 326, 327, 359, 385–86, 391, 435–36

Survorovskoye oil field, 279

Svechin, Ivan, 122

Sverdlov, Yakov, 160, 161

Sverneftegazprom, 342

Sveshnikov, Ivan, 10

Svet (steamship), 99

Svyatoslav, Prince, 7

Svyatoslav Vsevolodovich, Prince, 8

Synthetic gasoline, 263–64, 271, 280

Sytenko, Nikolay, 121

Syukeyevo, 50

Syunik Partnership, 97

T

Tagiyev, Gadzhi, 76

Tahmasp II, Shah, 16–17

Takhautdinov, Shafagat, 339, 438–39

Talakan field, 334

Talin oil field, 312

Taman–Black Sea Oil Company, 145

Taman Peninsula, 7–8, 58–59

Tar fields, 338–39

Tarle, Yevgeny, 13

Tarumov, Mark, 30, 31

Tashkala oil field, 276, 279

Tatar ASSR, 275, 284, 286, 295

Tatarstan, 338–39

Tatburneft drilling trust, 284

Tatneft, 287, 327, 338–39, 359, 386, 393–94, 438–39

Tatneftefeofizika trust, 285

Taxation, 91–94

Tax-farming system, 43–44, 74–78, 114

Tayshet, 334

Tazov gas field, 292

Teagle, Walter, 210–11, 228

Tenishev, Vyacheslav, 126, 418–19

Ter-Akopov, Ivan, 79

Ter-Gabrielyan, Sahak, 165, 179

Ter-Gukasov (entrepreneur), 43, 46

Teriberka, 350

Ter-Oganesov, Yakov, 208

Tersk Region, 57, 76, 79, 114, 115

Teterevnikov, V., 291

Tetyushi, 50, 51

Tevlin-Russkinskaya field, 360

Texaco Inc., 236

Texas Oil, 236

Theophan, 4

Therapeutic uses of oil, 10

Thiers, Adolphe, 110

Third Crusade, 5

Third World, 310

Thompson, W. M., 183

Tiflis Province, 71–74

Tikhonovich, Nikolay, 119, 238–41, 259

Timan Oil & Gas plc, 350

Timan-Pechora region, 238–43, 275–76, 336, 344

Timirgazin, K., 275

Timiryazev, Vladimir, 143