Oil Stones: A Soviet City in the Middle of the Sea

PropBet · Feb 10, 2010

Anyone familiar with this? I came across it on the net last night however find very few other pages about it in various searches.

http://englishrussia.com/?p=9806

Summary: (intro paragraph from the site quoted)

In 1940s and 1950s, right after the World War 2 Russia had to recover from the consequences of the Nazi invasion. Lots had to be done and as we know to complete something you need to have enough energy. And energy at that times as well as it is much likely now meant oil.

At that times the known oil reserves differed from what people in Russia know about it now. The main places to drill for oil was Southern Russia on contrary to frozen Northern Siberian regions as it’s for now. And the gemstone of the Soviet Oil production was Caspian sea region, mainly the territories that are an independent state of Aizerbajan now.

So after a massive attack of oil thirsty state the lands of this previously oil-saturated region little by little got exhausted of the black mineral treasure and the need for new sources of it arouse. Now it’s not clear who was that this genius who first came up with an idea of getting the oil right from the sea bottom where it was still plenty of it and for this purpose to build a real city 42 km (25 miles) off the coast right in the middle of the sea, but what we know is that this idea came into play and by some crazy chance it got support from that times Soviet leaders who leveraged it with the all support the biggest (by the territory) state could offer at that time. What this meant is that in a matter of just a few month a real town was built right in the middle of the nowhere on giant steel blocks coming from the sea bottom, from as deep as hundreds of feet down. And they called it “Oil Stones”.
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Images of said "city" in the link above.

Is this place still in existence? Can find anything else on it through various searches.

NYCAP123 · Feb 10, 2010

PropBet said:

Anyone familiar with this? I came across it on the net last night however find very few other pages about it in various searches.

http://englishrussia.com/?p=9806

Summary: (intro paragraph from the site quoted)

Images of said "city" in the link above.

Is this place still in existence? Can find anything else on it through various searches.
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Still there...somewhat.
http://www.artificialowl.net/2008/07/oil-rocks-neft-dashlari-neftyanyye.html

PropBet · Feb 10, 2010

NYCAP123 said:

Still there...somewhat.
http://www.artificialowl.net/2008/07/oil-rocks-neft-dashlari-neftyanyye.html
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Much thanks.
Link to GPS coords, and a Wiki article on.
Couldn't find it last night for the life of me.

Kevin · Feb 10, 2010

Wow. The Russians truly took on some utterly mad endeavours over the years. They certainly don't do things by halves, I'll give them credit on that.

NYCAP123 · Feb 10, 2010

Kevin said:

Wow. The Russians truly took on some utterly mad endeavours over the years. They certainly don't do things by halves, I'll give them credit on that.
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It's only mad if it doesn't work. The folks in Miami did it long before (on a much smaller scale) for gambling.http://www.key-biscayne.com/kb/stiltsville/index.shtml:)

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