Monument to the discoverers of Bashkir oil

The monument was erected on the area of ​​the Discoverers of Bashkir Oil in 1969 ^{[1] [2]} . Located on a memorial site lined with granite slabs ^[2] . A twelve-meter granite figure, revealing the wealth of the bowels, depicts a muscular torso of a geologist pulling oil out of the Ural stone with effort and transmitting physical effort with an energetic tilt of the head and muscle tension. The monument displays a feeling of great spiritual and physical strength of a person, opening the bowels of the earth and conquering them ^[3] . According to the authors, the monument is a massive stone with a powerful figure of a geologist growing out of it - a hero, tearing a rock ^{[1] [2]} .

In the nature of the generalization of the powerful male figure, in the processing of granite, the influence of Soviet military monuments, in particular, the Volgograd sculpture “ Mother Mother Calls! "Sculptor E.V. Vuchetich or installed in the city of Chelyabinsk in 1967, the monument" The Tale of the Urals "by sculptor V. S. Zaikov. In the work of Bashkir authors, the naked athletic torso also seems to grow out of the rock. Slightly leaning back and putting his hands on the stones, the man peers into the schism, as in the open bowels of the earth. Depriving a gigantic figure of visible effort and tension, the authors claim confidence in the action being taken. Such an image of the conqueror of the elemental forces of nature was characteristic of all Soviet monumental art of that time ^[4] .

• Pedestal: 4.5 x 6.3 m, height - 0.6 m.
• Sculpture: height - 12 m ^[1] .

The pedestal and sculpture are made of gray granite ^[1] , brought from Ukraine ^[2] .

According to the memoirs of the former senior engineer of the Ishimbayneft Oil and Gas Production Department A. Sagadeev, Valentin Shashin presented the sculptures of Tamara Nechaeva and Boris Fuzeev with his idea of ​​a monument to the discoverers of Bashkir oil: a man pushes rocks to discover the wealth of the earth's bowels. On the advice of Shashin, who was then the USSR Minister of Oil Industry, the monument was made of gray Zaporizhzhya granite. (A. Sagadeev. The monument to them is our city // gas. Sunrise, August 19, 2014, No. 127-128 (12867-868). C.2)

• Sculptors: Tamara Pavlovna Nechaeva and Boris Dmitrievich Fuzeev ^[1] .
• Architect: Lev Vasilievich Khikhluha (laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation for 1999 ) ^[1] .

In 2007, a postmarked art envelope appeared on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the discovery of Bashkir oil. In the photograph provided by the administration of the city of Ishimbay to the Mark Publishing Center, the monument to the discoverers of “black gold” festively looks ^[5] .

• Nikulochkin, D.V. Keepers of the history of Ishimbay : hh. I, II // Soles + : gas. / ed. G.R. Yamalova. - Ishimbay : RIC “Aspect”, 2018. - No. 16 (April 18). - S. 2. - ISSN 2220-8348 .