Vagit Alekperov - Oil of Russia

Timonin, Vitaly, 294

Tmutarakan Principality, 7–8

TNK (Tyumen Oil Company), 326, 327

TNK-BP, 342, 344, 359, 385–86, 390–91

Tomsk Region, 338

Tomsky, Mikhail, 230, 433–34

Topchubashov, Alimardan Alakbar oglu, 183

Topuridze, D.A., 183

Tornau, Nikolay, 46

Total, 349

TotalFinaElf, 364

TPAO, 364

Transcaspian Trading Partnership, 46, 49

Transcaucasian Federation, 193

Transcaucasus, 176–79, 184

Transcaucasus Railway, 110, 120

Transneft, 327, 341

Transnefteprodukt, 327, 341

Transportation costs, 294

Trans-Siberian Railroad, 131–32

Treaty of Alexandropol (1919), 189

Treaty of Brest-Litovsk (1918), 170, 176–77

Treaty of Gulistan (1813), 29

Treaty of Kuchuk Kaynarca (1774), 40

Treaty of Portsmouth (1905), 118

Trifonov, Valentin, 206

Tri Ozera field, 295

Tripolsky, A. T., 275

Trofimuk, A., 275

Trofimuk, Andrey, 291–92

Trotsky, Leon, 163, 184, 191, 203, 231, 434–35

Trudoviks, 140–41

Trust Franco-Beige de Pétrole, 199

Trutnev, Yury, 331–32, 439

Tsentrosoyuz (Central Alliance of Consumer Societies), 206

Tsereteli, Irakly, 162–63

Tsyurupa, Aleksandr, 170

Tuapse, 233

Tukhachevsky, Mikhail, 186

Tukhvinskaya, Ye., 256

Tulchinsky, Konstantin, 118

Tumansky license tract, 349

Tumsky, Konstantin, 114

Turbodrilling, 234–38, 275, 282

Turkey, 189, 219, 375

Turkmen ASSR, 286

Turkmenistan, 350, 365

Turlov, Prince, 38

Turton, Simon, 353

Turukhan Territory, 65

Tuymaza oil field, 275, 282, 285

Tuymaza–Omsk 2 pipeline, 288

Tyumen, 343

Tyumenneftegaz Production Association, 294, 295

Tyumen Oil Company (TNK), 326, 327

Tyumen Region, 292–99, 314

U

Uchkizyl field, 257

Ufa Cracking Refinery, 258

Ufa District, 22–23

Ufa–Omsk 2 pipeline, 288

Ukhta District, 275

Ukhta fields, 15, 20–21, 27, 66–70, 238–43

Ukhta-Pechora prison camp, 240–43

Ukhtin, Comrade, 246

Unified Gas Supply System (UGSS), 357, 358

Union of Kuban Oil Industrialists, 149

Union of Oil Workers and Allied Trades, 139

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, formation of, 193

United Metallurgical Company, 373

United Nations, 351, 378

United States. See also Standard Oil Company

alternative energy initiatives in, 377–78

energy cooperation with, 300–304

energy/output ratio in, 355

and Lee’s visit to Soviet Russia, 227–34

and Lend-Lease, 272–74

oil industry in, 54–56, 86, 89, 93, 128–34, 147

Russian energy expansion seen as threat to, 367–68

Serebrovsky’s trip to, 210–17

turbodrilling in, 236

and world oil prices, 320

Universal Oil Products, 260

Unskilled laborers, 135–36

Upper Chona field, 334, 344

Uralmash Drilling Equipment, 353, 354

Uralneft, 243, 247–49

Urals, 243–51

Uratadze, Grigol, 189

Urazmetov, Nadyr, 22–23

Urazmetov, Yusup, 22–23

Urengoyl Inc., 343

Urengoy–Pomary–Uzhgorod pipeline, 310

Uritsky, Moisey, 162

Urquhart, Leslie, 203, 205–6

Urusov, Semën N., 290, 291, 292

US Department of Energy (DOE), 301, 303, 306, 378

Usinsk oil field, 300

Uspekh partnership, 116

Ust-Balyk field, 295

Ust-Balyk region, 292

Usubbeyov, Nasib bey, 178

Utsuda, Shoei, 347

Uzbekistan, 365

V

V. I. Ragozin & Co. Partnership, 102, 106

Vacuum Oil Company, 228

Vakhitov, Gadel, 301, 302, 303

Vankor oil and gas field, 334

Varandey Oil Loading Terminal, 337

Vasilenko, Aleksandr, 128, 176

Vasilyev, Aleksey, 29

Vasilyev, Viktor, 256

Vat-Yëgan field, 360

Vazeyskoye oil field, 300

Vedeneyev, Yevgeny, 122

Veer, Jeroen van der, 347

Verey-Namurian oil field, 275

Verkhnechonskneftegaz, 344, 354

Verkhnechusovskiye Gorodki, 245, 246, 248, 249, 250

Verkhne-Izhma District, 275

Verkhovsky, Vasily, 18

Vermishev gusher, 80

Vernadsky, Vladimir, 24

Vertically integrated oil companies (VIOCs), 325–29

Veyser, B., 115

Victoria Oil & Gas, 34

Vishnyak, Mikhail, 162

Vladikavkaz Railroad, 116, 147, 199

Vladimir Filanovsky field, 336

VNITON (All-Union Scientific Engineering and Technical Society of Oil Workers), 256

Volga region, 22–23, 25, 49–54, 88, 270, 274

Volga-Urals region, 275, 283–89, 344

Vollendorf, Senior Manager, 58–59

Voloshanovsky, Andrey, 240

Volynsky, Artemy, 14, 16

Vonevin, Stepan, 25, 37

Vorontsov, Mikhail, 39, 41, 42, 44

Voskoboynikov, Nikolay, 31–37, 58

Voskresensky, Aleksandr, 47

Voynovsky-Kriger, Konstantin, 241

Voytsekhovich, Yevgeny, 292

Voyvot–Ukhta pipeline, 274

Voyvozh gas field, 276

Vratsyan, Simon, 188

Vronchenko, Fëdor, 43, 419

Vronchenko, Mikhail, 54

VSNKh. See Supreme Council for the National Economy

VTsIK (All-Russian Central Executive Committee), 160, 397

Vyborg, 372

Vyshnegradsky, Ivan, 111

W

War communism, 169–75, 206, 210

Wardwell, Allen, 229

Wartenburg, L., 120–21

Water management, 286, 312, 318–19

Watkins, J. Wade, 301, 306

Weatherford International Ltd., 343, 354

Weitzenbreyer, Yakov, 90

Well bailing, 80

Werden, Karl von, 15, 16

Western Europe–Western China International Transit Corridor, 365

Western Siberia

in post-Soviet period, 332–33, 337–38, 343, 352–53, 360

in Soviet period, 290–99, 310–12, 314–15, 317, 318

Westminster Bank, 222

West Siberian Resources, 344

West Surgut field, 295

Whale oil, 98

Wilmington oil field, 303

Wingas GmbH, 342

Winkler-Koch Corporation, 224, 233

Wintershall, 342

Wintershall Holding, 372

Wirtschaftsgruppe Kraftindustrie, 263

Witsen, Nicolaes, 11

Witte, Sergey, 120, 125, 139, 419–20

Wojslaw, Sigismund, 127

World Bank, 329

World oil prices, 315, 328, 330

World’s Columbian Exposition (Chicago, 1893), 108, 123

World’s Fair (Paris, 1889), 107

World Trade Organization, 356

World War I, 119, 143, 150–53, 199–200

World War II, 263–77, 372

and Lend-Lease, 270–74

role of Soviet oilmen and scientists in, 274–77

Worthington Pump Company, 122, 125

Wrecking, 259

Wroblewski, Eduard, 68

X

Xenophon, 1

Y

Yablonevoy Gorge, 275

Yagoda, Genrikh, 258–59

Yaguzhinsky, Pavel, 13

Yakutia, 333–34

Yamal-Nenets Autonomous District, 338, 339, 342, 343

Yamal Peninsula, 333

Yaqut al-Hamawi, 5

Yareyyu–South Khylchuyu gas pipeline, 337

Yarina–Kamenny Log field, 288

Yaroslavl, 233

Yartsev, Anikita, 30

Ydzhid-Kyrt region, 241

Yefremov (commander), 186

Yelshanka–Saratov pipeline, 274

Yeltsin, Boris, 323, 326, 327, 439–40

Yeremeyev, Pavel, 52, 53

Yermak drilling rig, 355

Yermolayev, P., 247

Yerofeyev, Vasily, 123

Yevdeyev, Roman, 11

Yevdokimov, Nikolay, 64

Yukos, 326, 327, 343, 436–37

Yurubchen-Tokhomo oil and gas field, 334

Yury Korchagin field, 335–36

Yushkin, Yevgeny, 76, 115, 145, 149–50

Z

Zabelsky, Ivan, 87

Zavadovsky, Nikolay, 58

Zheleznyakov, Anatoly, 163

Zhemchuzhin, Semën, 241

Zhigalovsky, Nikolay, 241

Zhirnovsk, 288