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Farman Salmanov

Soviet geologist (1931-2007) · Russia · On the map · Scientists · Died at 75

Farman Gurban oghlu Salmanov was an Azerbaijani geologist known for discovering extensive oil fields in Western Siberia in Tyumen Oblast in 1961.

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Awards

Shohrat Order2001

Order of Lenin

Hero of Socialist Labour

Order of the October Revolution

Order of the Red Banner of Labour

Lenin Prize

Honored Geologist of the Russian Federation

Gubkin Prize

Medal "For the Tapping of the Subsoil and Expansion of the Petrochemical Complex of Western Siberia"

Honoured Prospector

Discoverer of mineral deposit

Order of Friendship of Peoples

VDNKh gold medal

Country

Russia