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[CHECHNYA] Vopros o soedinenii Chernago i Kaspiiskago morei nefteprovodom v 70-kh godakh (po dannym Kubanskogo voiskovogo arkhiva) [i.e. Issue of Connecting the Black and Caspian Seas with an Oil Pipeline in the 1870s (According to Data of the Cuban Military Archive)]

Iushkin, E.

Item #2191

Grozny: Elektro-tipogr. Ia.N. Orlova, 1913. 31 pp. 26x17 cm.

In original printed wrappers. Tears of spine, small fragments of spine and covers lost.Reprinted from the Proceedings of the Terek Branch of the Imperial Russian Technical Society (1913, No. 2). Without title page, as issued.

The author dwells on “the issue as old as the Russian oil industry, but nevertheless unsolved”. Among the pioneers interested in execution of this project was an American oil engineer Herbert Tweddle who was invited to Russia by Dmitry Mendeleev in the 1870s. Tweddle’s earliest oil project was this pipeline connecting Batumi and Baku (i.e. the Black and Caspian Seas). It was submitted by him together with official Konstantin Bodisko. These archive materials contain conditions put forward by the Ministry of Finance and the Tweddle-Bodisko company. Finally, the Ministry denied their proposal because the state received insufficient profit. Some years later Tweddle returned to the Russian Empire for oil fields of Colonel Novosiltsev in the Kudako River valley, which fell into disrepair. The Baku-Batumi pipeline was brought to life in the early 20th century by another company.

Price: $750.00

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