The Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas hosted a scientific conference, dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Dr Farman Salmanov (1931-2007), the Azerbaijani geologist famous for discovering the great oil fields in Western Siberia in Tyumen Oblast in 1961.
The event was held under the aegis of the Russian Oil and Gas Producers Union. A number of prominent scientific figures, as well as presidents of oil and gas companies were present.
The participants at the conference praised Salmanov’s contributions to the Russian energy sector, as well as commemorating his personal qualities.
Farman Salmanov dedicated fifty years of his life to the oil-and-gas industry of the Soviet Union and Russia, and discovered or participated in the discovery of over one hundred fields, including such huge oil and gas reserves as Mamontovskoye, Megionskoye, Pravdinskoye, Ust-Balykskoye, Surgutskoye, Urengoyskoye, Yamburgskoye, etc. He was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor in 1966 and the Lenin Prize in 1970.
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