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What is the condition of Russia's oil industry? How much petroleum is being produced? This week Dr. Leonid P. Smirnov, former chief Arctic geologist for the Soviet Union, gives some of the answers in the Socony-Vacuum publication, The Flying Red Horse. As the top oil explorer in Russia from 1925 to 1942, Dr. Smirnov discovered the Arctic fields in the Taimyr-Lena area, and the rich Second Baku basin, which stretches from the Caspian Sea to the Arctic. But in 1949, disillusioned with Communism because "I saw what it was in practice and didn't like...
...bureaucracy under which Russian oilmen are forced to work is so top-heavy, writes Smirnov, that Russians guardedly refer to it as "one with a plow and seven with spoons." Bringing in a dry hole is a criminal offense punishable by banishment to Siberia. On geological expeditions, food is always so short that to feed a field party of 25 a manager is forced to "add another 25 'dead souls' to his roster, thus getting food for 50 men, which is barely enough to feed his crew...
...Russians promptly stocked up on bread, salami and potatoes, holed up in their quarters at the Cheesemakers' Inn, directly across the street from U.S. Army Intelligence headquarters in Salzburg, and prepared for a long siege. Colonel Alexander Smirnov, the burly chief of the mission, announced moodily that he could not leave until he received orders from Russian headquarters in Vienna. As far as personal relations were concerned, the Russians had gotten along fine in Salzburg - particularly Senior Lieut. Vasily Pivovarov, who had acquired quite a reputation among U.S. Army officers because he always breakfasted on six eggs, four sausages...
...deputies of the Foreign Ministers last week chewed a tired cud of procedural issues. Their sessions were placid enough, and utterly unproductive. The biggest question before them was whether the Austrian treaty could be put ahead of the German. The bland and affable Russian delegate, A. A. Smirnov, said...
Last week the deputies of the Big Four got down to preliminary work at Lancaster House. They were a professional crew: the U.S.'s political expert on Germany, Ambassador Robert D. Murphy; Patrick Dean of the British Foreign Office; Andrei A. Smirnov of Russia's Foreign Ministry; and France's career diplomat Jacques Tarbe de St. Hardouin. Their job was not to negotiate, merely to set' up the issues which Marshall, Bevin, Bidault and Molotov would consider...