Suren Arzumanov
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| Born | September 14, 1908, Baku, Azerbaijan, Russian Empire |
| Died | September 26, 1977, Moscow, The USSR |
| Nationality | Soviet/Armenian |
| Spouse | Aida Egiazarova (1911-1964) |
| Children | Irena Arzumanova (1943-2021) |
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| Education | Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University (1925-1931) |
| Profession | Oil & Mechanical engineer, designer of drilling and oilfield equipment |
Suren Akopovich Arzumanov (Russian: Арзума́нов Суре́н Ако́пович; 14 September 1908 — 26 September 1977) was a Soviet oil and mechanical engineer, designer of the first drilling rigs in the USSR. The Laureate of the USSR State Prize (1949). Honorary Oilman of the USSR (1968).
Biography
Suren Arzumanov was born in 1908 in Baku to a working-class Armenians family. In 1931 he graduated from the Azerbaijan State Oil and Industry University with a degree in mechanical engineering. During studies he had already have labour experience, working in Baku as a technician at the local oil fields which named Leninneft and Buhta Ilyicha. The first years of Suren Arzumanov’s career coincided with a period when a real technical revolution was underway in the petroleum industry in Azerbaijan. Every year, oil production and refining increased in the republic.
In 1931—1933 Suren Arzumanov as the young engineer worked in Azerbaijan Institute of Oil Engineering as a designer, after the head of the sector for the design and creation of the first Soviet drilling rigs. In 1933—1942 Arzumanov organized and established the producing of drilling and oilfield equipment in Baku.
During World War II when Nazi Germany troops move to the Volga River and Caucasus regions Suren Arzumanov was one who take part for disable of Baku oil wells. Thanksgiven of Stalingrad and Caucasus defenders, when the front line moved away from Baku, he active participated to actions of restore oil production quickly. During these years, Baku oil fields is the main fuel hub of the USSR. Its huge role in Soviet War Victory because the fact that more than 80 percent of fuel and lubricants for the Red Army and Soviet Navy supplied from Azerbaijan.
According to the memoirs of the head of the Soviet Petroleum Industry Nikolai Baibakov, this task was set personally by Soviet Leader Joseph Stalin, who said as follows:
"You need immediately fly to the south. If you leave the Nazi even a drop of oil, we will shoot you. But if you destroy the fields, but the Nazi do not come, and we are left without fuel, we will shoot you too." [1]
After the Red Army victory in Battle of Stalingrad, when finished the threat of the Baku oil fields occupation had passed, Suren Arzumanov was move to Moscow to the People's Commissariat of the Petroleum Industry of the USSR. He was need to organize development and updating oil field and oil refinery engineering. Since 1945 he managed this direction of work.
In the post-war time, Suren Arzumanov, as highly qualified engineer and supervisor, organise the work for the radical technical updating the equipment for the oil industry. Under his leadership, new equipment samples are developed and tested in a short time. It was organized their serial production and restored the producing of the all types of drilling and oil field equipment, involving the largest machine-building plants of other industries in the USSR.[2] He became the author of many inventions in the area of oil field equipment and mechanical engineering, which are still used in modern oil production equipment.[3]
In the future since 1957 he worked in RSFSR Gosplan, State Committee for automation and mechanical engineering under Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union. In 1965—1973 he was the head of Directorate of oil field mechnical engineering, member of the Board at the Ministry of Petroleum and Chemical Industry of the USSR.[4]
Honours and awards
- Order of Lenin
- Order of the Red Banner of Labour[5], twice
- Order of the Badge of Honour
- Medal "For the Defence of the Caucasus"
- Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
- USSR State Prize (1949)[6] — for creation of the new oil equipment types
- Honorary Oilman of the USSR (1968).
References
- ^ Nikolai Baibakov (1911–2008), dedicated to the 100th anniversary
- ^ Development of oil field engineering in the USSR (Review), published under edition of Suren Arzumanov, Moscow, 1967
- ^ Blowout ram preventer, Patent 4044988
- ^ Embodied the idea in metal. Publication about Suren Arzumanov for the 80th Anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Digital project "Our Victory. My history in photographs", April 2025.
- ^ Order of the Red Banner of Labour, Order of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR No. 216/111 of January 24, 1944.
- ^ Stalin Prize for outstanding inventions and fundamental improvements in production methods (1949)