Great scientists our countrymen

A legendary geologist who led the search

and discovery of Tyumen oil. The initiator and

organizer of the wide-scale exploration of the

largest in the USSR, the West Siberian oil and

gas province.

In August 1952 he was assigned to Tyumen

oil and gas exploring expedition.

Since 1955 he was the main engineer of Tyumen

gas and oil exploring trust. Since 1956 he was

the director of the trust, later the department of

“Tyumenneftegeologiya”.

The head of “Glavtyumengeologiya” in

1966-1977.

On 29 April 1963 Yuri Georgievich Ervier

was awarded the star of the Hero of Socialist

Labour and the Order of Lenin and a gold medal

“Hammer and Sickle” for outstanding

achievements in discovering and exploration

of gas and oil deposits.

In April 1964 he was among the group of

specialists and scientists awarded the Lenin

prize.

During his management more than 250 fields

of oil and gas were discovered, some of them

are unique: Mamontovskoe, Pravdinskoe,

Samotlorskoe, Fedorovskoe, Holmogorskoe

(of oil) and Zapolyarnoe, Medveshye,

Urengoyskoe, Yamburgskoe (of gas).

• His name was given to a street in Tyumen and a charity fund of Russian geologists.
• On 14 April 2006 in Tyumen a monument to Ervier who had worked in “Glavtyumengeologiya” for many years was opened in Respublika street.
• The text on the monument says: “To Ervier Yuri Georgievich – from grateful Tyumen”.

Viktor Muravlenko

Viktor Muravlenko - Soviet organizer of the oil and gas industry, head of the largest in the USSR oil industry enterprise Giprotyumenneftegaz in 1965-1977 years. Hero of Socialist Labour and the laureate of Lenin and State prizes. In 1936 he graduated the Oil Institute in Grozny . His professional career began in the oil fields in the Chechen-Ingush ASSR.