RUSSIA’S, AZERBAIJAN’S AND THE CAUCASUS’S OIL AND GAS INDUSTRIES’ INPUT INTO WINNING THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR
THE 12TH HISTORY SEMINAR COMMEMORATING THE 80TH ANNIVERSARY OF VICTORY IN THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR
10:00–17:00 October 10 2025
CONFERENCE HALL OF PRESS CENTRE, LEVEL 2
Organisers:
International Shukhov Foundation, ExpoForum International
Moderator:
Leonid Shtern
President, International Shukhov Foundation Dmitry Mityurin
Chief Specialist, Lenhydroproject Speaker:
Nikita Golunov
Provost for Further Vocational Training, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas
Topic of the report: Oil and gas milestones of the Victory. Fuel supplies for the armed forces in the years of the Great Patriotic War
Petr Tishchenko
Chairman, Archive Committee of St. Petersburg
Topic of the report: Oil workers and their contribution into the Victory. Archive materials as a basis for new studies
Gashim Mamed Jafar Ogly Aliev
Deputy Chairman of the Board, National-Cultural Autonomy of Azerbaijanis in Moscow
Topic of the report: Input of Azerbaijan-based scientists, specialists and oil workers into the Victory in the Great Patriotic War
Oleg Savchenko
Head of Special Projects Department, Office for Public and Mass Media Relations, Gazprom Mezhregiongaz
Topic of the report: Eternal light of our memory. History of the Victory. History of gasification
Dmitry Mityurin
Chief Specialist, Lenhydroproject
Topic of the report: Alexander Lidov (1853–1919), gas supply technology pioneer
Darya Grigoryeva
Press Secretary, Union of Oil and Gas Producers of Russia
Topic of the report: Images of heroic oil workers in the Museum of Heroes of the Russian Fuel and Energy Sector and the Industrial Complex (Baibakov, Vinogradov, Kortunov et al.)
Faina Nedbay
Director, St. Petersburg Central State Archive of Scientific and Technical Documentation
Topic of the report: Documents from St. Petersburg Central State Archive of Scientific and Technical Documentation about the input of the oil and gas industry into the Victory: from engineering projects to industrial reports
Ekaterina Kosyreva
Deputy Director, Russian State Archive of Scientific and Technical Documentation
Topic of the report: Using heat from exhausted vapours in the years of the Great Patriotic War (materials from E. Sokolov in Russian State Archive of Scientific and Technical Documentation)
Igor Varyash
D. Sc. in Economics, Head of Analytical Centre, Research and Development Financial Institute of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation
Topic of the report: Model of an ecosystem for exchange of advanced synthesised data in terms of the oil and gas sector
Olga Panina
Head of State and Municipal Management Department, Higher School of Management, Government of the Russian Federation
Topic of the report: Educational training for Blockchain exchange of Big Data in the state municipal management system
Irina Gorina
Ph. D., Culture Historian, Member of the Moscow Union of Artists, Coordinator of International Cultural Projects at the Creative Strategies Centre
Topic of the report: Ust-Luga industrial area. Geoculture and geopolicy as impact factors
Kirill Chernyshev
Student of History Institute, St. Petersburg State University
Topic of the report: Global exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876 as a driver of scientific-technological breakthrough in the Russian oil and gas industry
Andrey Raskatov
Member of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia All-Russian Public Organisation
Topic of the report: Digital future of the oil and gas sector: from historical analytics to neural network solutions
Anna Smolentseva
Member of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia All-Russian Public Organisation
Topic of the report: Digital future of the oil and gas sector: from historical analytics to neural network solutions. Shukhov Speaking animation video
Sergey Serdyukov
Representative of Rector for Special Programs Support, Empress Catherine II St. Petersburg Mining University
Alexander Sokolov
D. Sc. in History
Topic of the report: Dating back the history of Leningrad’s energy sector in times of the World War II
Maria Zavyalova
Leading Specialist, History Museum of St. Petersburg Polytechnic University; Assistant, Higher School of Public Science, St. Petersburg Polytechnic University
Topic of the report: Scientific and technological activities of the gas plant (St. Petersburg Polytechnic Institute)
Maria Tugusheva
Leading Specialist, Public and Mass Media Relations Service, Gazprom Transgaz Moscow
Topic of the report: Yuly Bokserman, a pioneer of the gas sector and a scientist who sped up the Victory
Anatoly Konstantinov
Chairman, Russian Creative Union of Cultural Workers
Topic of the report: Industrial tourism: oil and gas facilities associated with events during the Great Patriotic War
Andrey Terentyev
Deputy Chairman, Russian Creative Union of Cultural Workers
Topic of the report: Industrial tourism: oil and gas facilities associated with events during the Great Patriotic War
Welcome speech:
Leonid Shtern
President, International Shukhov Foundation
Sergey Gustov
CEO, Gazprom Mezhregiongaz
TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION: