85 years ago, the first gas field in the Volga Saratov region was discovered on October 28, 1941, a gas fountain with a flow of almost 700,000 cubic meters per day erupted from Alshanskaya well No. 1, which was laid in April. The productive horizon was 500 m deep. This event was of particular importance for the Soviet Union, which was fighting a war with the Germans and its defense plants needed fuel. The discovery, made near the village of Alshanka, turned Saratov into the first rear source of cheap and clean fuel. Speculations regarding the presence of large hydrocarbon deposits in the Saratov region were raised as early as the 1930s. Academician Ivan Gobkin made such assumptions, and then his thoughts were shared with geologist Saratov and professor Boris Mozharovsky. Also, among the explorers of the Alshanskoye field: the head of the expedition of the State Geological Fund "Glavnpetrazvodka" Vasily Sanyukov, a senior geologist of the Nizhnevolzhsky Geological Research Fund Izmail Yingorsov, the director of this trust, Alexander Kotokov. At the beginning of 1943, natural gas was supplied from the Alshanskoi field to Sertov CHPP-1. In July 1946, Saratov gas began to be transported to the capital through the Saratov-Moscow gas pipeline. Muscovites began to receive 800 thousand cubic meters of natural gas daily. Image sources: Gazprom Transgaz Saratov, Saratov Regional Universal Library. The image was edited using AI. All the news technology | magazine.

85 years ago, the first gas field in the Volga Saratov region was discovered on October 28, 1941, a gas fountain with a flow of almost 700,000 cubic meters per day erupted from Alshanskaya well No. 1, which was laid in April. The productive horizon was 500 m deep. This event was of particular importance for the Soviet Union, which was fighting a war with the Germans and its defense plants needed fuel. The discovery, made near the village of Alshanka, turned Saratov into the first rear source of cheap and clean fuel. Speculations regarding the presence of large hydrocarbon deposits in the Saratov region were raised as early as the 1930s. Academician Ivan Gobkin made such assumptions, and then his thoughts were shared with geologist Saratov and professor Boris Mozharovsky. Also, among the explorers of the Alshanskoye field: the head of the expedition of the State Geological Fund "Glavnpetrazvodka" Vasily Sanyukov, a senior geologist of the Nizhnevolzhsky Geological Research Fund Izmail Yingorsov, the director of this trust, Alexander Kotokov. At the beginning of 1943, natural gas was supplied from the Alshanskoi field to Sertov CHPP-1. In July 1946, Saratov gas began to be transported to the capital through the Saratov-Moscow gas pipeline. Muscovites began to receive 800 thousand cubic meters of natural gas daily. Image sources: Gazprom Transgaz Saratov, Saratov Regional Universal Library. The image was edited using AI. All the news technology | magazine.