An Oilman’s Obituary
Apr 18th, 2008 | By Byron King | Category: Oil
NIKOLAI BAIBAKOV (1911–2008)
Peoples’ Commissar of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
ON A HOT DAY in July 1942 Joseph Stalin summoned before him a young mining engineer named Nikolai Baibakov. The supreme leader of the Soviet Union pointed out an obvious fact to his visitor. German armies were advancing into the ...read more
