Leather-bound book "Russian Mining"

For a century and a half, oil has been a significant factor in the development of the country - the Russian Empire, the USSR, and Russia. Big money, political interests, and the fates of various people were intertwined around oil. The country's modernization was based on oil. Oil was driving science forward. Oil acted as an invisible spring of global change. The book "Russian Mining" tells about this and much more, where adventurous, almost detective stories are combined with a deep analysis of economic and social phenomena. Its author is Maria Slavkina, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Advisor to the President of the Union of Oil and Gas Industrialists of Russia. The book's design uses rare photographs from state archives and private collections.