Labour Victories - Tales of Soviet Women Workers for Peace, 1951 #3

From the Soviet Press 1951

I work with Azmorneft, an organization set up not long ago to tap underwater oil deposits lying at the bottom of the Caspian Sea. Our oil workers have registered notable achievements in labour since they began their Peace Watch . By the end of last year we considerably increased the number of producing wells and raised the average daily output.

Our oil workers are battling the elements to wrest from the sea many thousands of tons of valuable fuel needed for the great construction works of Communism, for the peaceful thriving of our country.

The excellent equipment and the high degree of mechanization at our oil fields enable women too to work in the oil industry and to taste the joy of subjugating the elemental forces of Nature.

There are women working in every oil field in Azerbaijan. Shoulder to shoulder with their brothers, husbands and fathers they are working for peace. Thousands of women may be found among the executive, engineering and technical personnel of our republic’s oil industry.

Deserved renown among the oil workers has been won by Maryam Mamedova, forewoman with the Orjonikidze Oil Trust, whose maintenance brigade regularly exceeds its production program. Ramzia Ali-Zade is assistant director of a drilling office which completed the annual plan for boring underwater oil wells as early as September.

One of the may who have distinguished themselves themselves in the production emulation movement is Tubi Rzayeva, a Young Communist League member who works as a senior operator at Field No. 5 of the Stalin Oil Trust.

Since the Second World Peace Congress the oil workers of Azerbaijan have been striving to work still better, to produce still more oil over and above plan. - SAKINE KULIEVA, Senior Engineer, Technical Department of Azmorneft; Chairman, Azerbaijan Oil Industry Scientific Engineering and Baku Technical Society