This photo from the collection of the Uray City Historical Museum features the tanker with the first Shaim oil. The picture was taken on May 23, 1964. In the foreground is the water surface of the Konda River, in the background — a tanker with five white tanks on board. They have the inscription: “No smoking, flammable.”
The photo consists of two parts. In the upper part, the photographer placed a close-up photograph of the upper part of the tank. A panel with the inscription: “Receive, Motherland, the first Shaim oil” is attached to the lid of the tank. In the upper right corner is the date of the picture in typographic font. On the reverse side of the photograph, there is an inscription made with a purple felt-tip pen: “Tanker No. 652, Captain Konstantin Tretyakov.”
This vessel moored at the Sukhobor pier on May 22, 1964 to load oil. Shaim’s life took a new turn. The drilling supervisor of the Shaim oil exploration expedition, Hero of Socialist Labor Semyon Nikitich Urusov, the head of the expedition Ivan Fyodorovich Morozov, and the chief engineer of the Shaim oilfield Rem Khannanov slowly and solemnly opened the valve.
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. A new oil-producing region of the country has been born.”
The first journey was not easy and short. That summer, the forest in the taiga was on fire. The river with many shallows and turns had been poorly explored. However, the ship under the command of Konstantin Fyodorovich Tretyakov arrived on time, and the black gold arrived at the Omsk oil refinery according to schedule — from June 4 to 7.
The date of May 23, 1964 became a symbolic birthday of the country’s new oilfield. In the first year, the Shaim oilfield produced more than 64,000 tons of product. This was a serious bid for the creation of a powerful oilfield base on the Konda River.
The photo consists of two parts. In the upper part, the photographer placed a close-up photograph of the upper part of the tank. A panel with the inscription: “Receive, Motherland, the first Shaim oil” is attached to the lid of the tank. In the upper right corner is the date of the picture in typographic font. On the reverse side of the photograph, there is an inscription made with a purple felt-tip pen: “Tanker No. 652, Captain Konstantin Tretyakov.”
This vessel moored at the Sukhobor pier on May 22, 1964 to load oil. Shaim’s life took a new turn. The drilling supervisor of the Shaim oil exploration expedition, Hero of Socialist Labor Semyon Nikitich Urusov, the head of the expedition Ivan Fyodorovich Morozov, and the chief engineer of the Shaim oilfield Rem Khannanov slowly and solemnly opened the valve.
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. A new oil-producing region of the country has been born.”
The first journey was not easy and short. That summer, the forest in the taiga was on fire. The river with many shallows and turns had been poorly explored. However, the ship under the command of Konstantin Fyodorovich Tretyakov arrived on time, and the black gold arrived at the Omsk oil refinery according to schedule — from June 4 to 7.
The date of May 23, 1964 became a symbolic birthday of the country’s new oilfield. In the first year, the Shaim oilfield produced more than 64,000 tons of product. This was a serious bid for the creation of a powerful oilfield base on the Konda River.
