In 1994, Shaim oil veterans gathered to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the start of industrial oil production in Uray. The photographer captured Alexander Nikolaevich Filimonov, Alexander Artyomovich Goryachev, Evgeny Nikolaevich Gatsenko, and Yakov Nikolaevich Benkovsky, who are sitting in the first row (from left to right).
In the second row, from left to right, are Fyodor Fyodorovich Mukovoz, Mikhail Fyodorovich Pustovalov, Valery Isakovich Graifer, Alexander Vyacheslavovich Kochnev, Alexander Vasilyevich Kolyada, Valery Matveevich Shalavin, and Marat Shakiryanovich Bashirov.
The participants of the meeting recalled how reconnaissance was carried out in the remote taiga, how the crew’s small radio station transmitted the long-awaited news: “A powerful fountain with a debit of 300 tons per day started working, ” how a pier was created in Sukhoy Bor. They witnessed the development of the region.
Events that might now go unnoticed were then marked by large meetings of workers and local residents. For example, this was the case with the arrival of the tanker TN-652, and with the loading of the first oil. In the first year, the Shaim oilfield produced 64,305 tons. It was a bid for the creation of an oilfield base on the Konda River.
These people saw how the town of Uray was created and took part in that process. Uray became larger than a village and received a new status in 1965. At the same time, a new phase of work of the field management started. In that year, Shaim oil began to be pumped into the new Shaim-Tyumen pipeline.
The first official announcement, or rather mention of the oil pipeline between Shaim and Tyumen, was in the decision of the Bureau of the Tyumen Industrial Regional Committee of the CPSU dated April 4, 1964. It noted that preparatory work had begun in the region for the industrial development of discovered oil and gas fields and the construction of a main oil pipeline.
The authorities planned that the main pipeline would be put into operation in the summer of 1966. However, the builders took into account the country’s great need for Tyumen oil and promised to complete the construction of the pipeline in 1965. They were able to complete the task on time.
In the second row, from left to right, are Fyodor Fyodorovich Mukovoz, Mikhail Fyodorovich Pustovalov, Valery Isakovich Graifer, Alexander Vyacheslavovich Kochnev, Alexander Vasilyevich Kolyada, Valery Matveevich Shalavin, and Marat Shakiryanovich Bashirov.
The participants of the meeting recalled how reconnaissance was carried out in the remote taiga, how the crew’s small radio station transmitted the long-awaited news: “A powerful fountain with a debit of 300 tons per day started working, ” how a pier was created in Sukhoy Bor. They witnessed the development of the region.
Events that might now go unnoticed were then marked by large meetings of workers and local residents. For example, this was the case with the arrival of the tanker TN-652, and with the loading of the first oil. In the first year, the Shaim oilfield produced 64,305 tons. It was a bid for the creation of an oilfield base on the Konda River.
These people saw how the town of Uray was created and took part in that process. Uray became larger than a village and received a new status in 1965. At the same time, a new phase of work of the field management started. In that year, Shaim oil began to be pumped into the new Shaim-Tyumen pipeline.
The first official announcement, or rather mention of the oil pipeline between Shaim and Tyumen, was in the decision of the Bureau of the Tyumen Industrial Regional Committee of the CPSU dated April 4, 1964. It noted that preparatory work had begun in the region for the industrial development of discovered oil and gas fields and the construction of a main oil pipeline.
The authorities planned that the main pipeline would be put into operation in the summer of 1966. However, the builders took into account the country’s great need for Tyumen oil and promised to complete the construction of the pipeline in 1965. They were able to complete the task on time.
