On May 23, 1964, the first oil tanker No. 652 with Shaim oil departed under the command of Captain Konstantin Fyodorovich Tretyakov from the Sukhobor pier on the Konda River, which had been built in a short time by order of the management.
The siphon valve to the barge tank was opened by Semyon Nikitich Urusov, a veteran of the Shaim oilfield, a drilling foreman of the Shaim oil exploratory expedition, Hero of Socialist Labor, and Ivan Fyodorovich Morozov, head of the Shaim oil exploratory expedition, as well as by Rim Khamentovich Khannanov, the chief engineer of the Shaim integrated oil field.
In 1959, Semyon Nikitich Urusov agreed to go to Shaim at the request of Yuri Georgievich Ervie, the manager of the Tyumen oil exploration trust, although many of the foreman’s subordinates remained in Upper Tavda.
The team traveled to the region by seaplane and worked for a long time in the most difficult conditions. Only one caravan with equipment managed to get to their destination from Khanty-Mansiysk along the Irtysh and Konda Rivers. Much had to be delivered by AN-2 aircraft. They landed on the landing site, which was quickly created in the area of the village of Ushya, about 20 kilometers from Uray.
A month before the significant event, Yuri Georgievich Ervie, among a group of scientists and specialists, was awarded the Lenin Prize “for substantiating the prospects for the oil and gas potential of the West Siberian Lowland.”
On a spring day in 1964, hundreds of Soviet citizens, the pioneers of Shaim, as well as local residents, gathered to look at the oil transfer. In fact, an impromptu meeting took place, which was dedicated to the extraction of the first Siberian industrial oil. A black-and-white photograph of this event, along with other documents, is currently stored in the Uray City Historical Museum.
The Tyumen Pravda newspaper wrote, “This day has been expected, preparations have been made for it for many months, including the season when the roads were muddy. Dreaming about it, the pioneer geologists went through the taiga, through the swamps. It has been done! Today, on the harsh, rejuvenated Konda, is a joyful holiday. The valve for the Siberian ‘black gold’ to the oil refineries has been opened.”
The siphon valve to the barge tank was opened by Semyon Nikitich Urusov, a veteran of the Shaim oilfield, a drilling foreman of the Shaim oil exploratory expedition, Hero of Socialist Labor, and Ivan Fyodorovich Morozov, head of the Shaim oil exploratory expedition, as well as by Rim Khamentovich Khannanov, the chief engineer of the Shaim integrated oil field.
In 1959, Semyon Nikitich Urusov agreed to go to Shaim at the request of Yuri Georgievich Ervie, the manager of the Tyumen oil exploration trust, although many of the foreman’s subordinates remained in Upper Tavda.
The team traveled to the region by seaplane and worked for a long time in the most difficult conditions. Only one caravan with equipment managed to get to their destination from Khanty-Mansiysk along the Irtysh and Konda Rivers. Much had to be delivered by AN-2 aircraft. They landed on the landing site, which was quickly created in the area of the village of Ushya, about 20 kilometers from Uray.
A month before the significant event, Yuri Georgievich Ervie, among a group of scientists and specialists, was awarded the Lenin Prize “for substantiating the prospects for the oil and gas potential of the West Siberian Lowland.”
On a spring day in 1964, hundreds of Soviet citizens, the pioneers of Shaim, as well as local residents, gathered to look at the oil transfer. In fact, an impromptu meeting took place, which was dedicated to the extraction of the first Siberian industrial oil. A black-and-white photograph of this event, along with other documents, is currently stored in the Uray City Historical Museum.
The Tyumen Pravda newspaper wrote, “This day has been expected, preparations have been made for it for many months, including the season when the roads were muddy. Dreaming about it, the pioneer geologists went through the taiga, through the swamps. It has been done! Today, on the harsh, rejuvenated Konda, is a joyful holiday. The valve for the Siberian ‘black gold’ to the oil refineries has been opened.”
