the young geologist gerasim bogomolov once again bypassed. would seem to trifles a familiar area. sitting down on a nearby one . sometimes bogomolov stopped just to admire the local beauties. the landscapes of the outgoing summer, in the woodland, fascinated. already in the tent, he transferred his observations to the map. these were the final touches to the great work that he was now completing, shifting his scientific research and practical observations into the language of a memorandum. presence in the southern part of the bssr drop-shaped structures gives grounds to explore these areas for oil, salt and mineralnye vody, a note was to be sent to the country's leadership. gerasim bogomolov's conclusions turned out to be convincing. in his accompanying note to my leadership of the country, he noted among the young rocks and especially to the southeast of the geographical center at a shallow depth there were rocks of ancient age. they are giant domes and consist mainly of issols such domed structures are always satellites hydrocarbons. the co

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 discussion. the academy of sciences of the bssr also saw real prospects for research; the belarusian government agreed with its arguments about the advisability of conducting exploration drilling in 1938 , drilling of the first deep exploratory well began in the 1938 in domanovo, now svetlogorsk district of the gomel region. as a result, at a depth of more than 800 m, salinity deposits of the divan were found. they confirmed the forecast for oil. at the same time, in the parisian and hlum regions , an increased content of heavy hydrocarbons in the soil air layer was discovered. to consolidate the successes of belarusian scientists geologists on april 20, 1945 , belarusian radio announced the start of work in minsk for the first session of the academy of sciences after the war the bssr academic novokuumites at their yana's blotters set new tasks to the tearf