T. V. Journal of Petroleum Economy as a Source on the Ecological History of the North of Western Siberia

The article is a comprehensive source study that proves the unique status of the scientific and technical journal «Petroleum Economy» as the most important and irreplaceable primary source for studying the ecological history of intensive industrial development of Northwestern Siberia in the 1960s and 1980s. The research is based on the hypothesis that the leading industry publication, being a mirror of professional consciousness and a living chronicle of practice, documented not only the triumphant achievements of the Siberian oil and gas breakthrough, but also its «shadow» side — the complex, contradictory and dramatic process of interaction of a giant industrial system with vulnerable ecosystems of the Arctic and Western Siberia. Through systematic content analysis and an array of publications, the article reconstructs the genesis and evolution of environmental issues in a professional environment: from latent presence in the context of discussing technological difficulties of development (problems of permafrost, impassability, flooding of territories) to its gradual articulation in the form of specific tasks for resource conservation, protection of the subsoil, utilization of associated gas and improvement of environmental safety. Special attention is paid to the analysis of professional language and rhetoric reflecting the transformation of the mentality of petroleum engineers: from the dominant paradigm of «conquering the elements» to the gradual realization of the fragility of the natural environment and the need to find technological compromises. The work proves that the value of the «Oil Industry» goes far beyond purely technical information; the magazine is the key to understanding how a special «industrial-ecological» thinking originated in the depths of the Soviet industrial giant, under the pressure of growing objective contradictions. The research makes a significant contribution to the development of the methodology of working with specialized periodicals as a historical source and opens up new prospects for interdisciplinary research in the field of environmental history of Russia, the history of technology and soviet everyday life on the industrial front.

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