Second Baku
Second Baku
a widely used name for the Volga-Urals Petroleum and Gas Region, put into production under Soviet power. The second (after Baku) major center of the USSR petroleum industry was created with the exploitation of the oil fields between the Volga and the Urals. Beginning in the 1950’s, the Second Baku Region led the USSR in the amount of petroleum production (71.5 percent in 1965), but, with the exploitation of the newly discovered oil fields in Western Siberia on the Mangyshlak Peninsula, the Second Baku percentage began to drop (58.6 percent in 1970) although there was an absolute production increase.