Crisis Manager and Kazakh Oil Explorer. Berkingali Atshybaev (1897–1937?)

This chapter tells about the activities of the geologist, public figure B. Atshybaev, who fought at the front during the First World War, and then became involved in the work of the Western branch of the Alash-Horde. He established contacts with the West Siberian Army and British representatives in Western Siberia. He created a geological map of potential sources of oil using innovative methods at the time: the geophysical method of oil exploration and the method of analyzing micropaleontological data. Under his leadership, comprehensive geophysical surveys of a number of oil fields were discovered and carried out, the first geological map of the Kondybay field was compiled, and the layered structure of oil in Zholdybay was determined.