geologist alexander rozin, exploring the peat massifs of gomel region, scientifically substantiated thesible presence of rock salt and oil deposits in the depths of the belarusian woodland. but there were many more skeptics. correspondence began with the council of people's commissars of the republic, heated discussions in the press. and if it were not for gerasim bogomolov, the future academician of the academy of sciences of the bssr, who proved the reality of such assumptions and used them in his further research, everything could have remained at the level of discussions. the academy of sciences of the bssr also saw real prospects for research. the belarusian government agreed with her arguments about the feasibility of carrying out exploratory drilling operations in polesie. in the thirty-eighth in the damanovichi now svetlogorsk district of the gomel region. drilling of the first deep exploration well began , as a result, at a depth of more than 800 m, salt-bearing deposits of the divon were discovered, they confirmed... hydrocarbons in the soil layer of air, the war prevented the