the moscow state university and director of the institute of petrochemical synthesis named after topcha in the russian academy of sciences corresponding member of the russian academy of sciences anton lvovich maksimov anton lvovich hello , thank you very much for taking the time to come to the studio. hello, thanks for inviting me. oil, of course, for me, for example, is associated primarily with fuel. and this is understandable. can you please say that, besides fuel, what around us has oil as its initial raw material. you know sometime sometime very bad wine they said it was wine made from oil. i think it's still not the case. and that's what, nevertheless, from the oil around us. in fact, the vast majority of organic materials around us are from oil, that is, those materials that contain carbons and your pen, and in fact, i suspect that part of your jacket and microphone all this somehow has an origin from oil. but the fact is that only a very small part of the oil. now it is processed into these products into petrochemical products, even in developed countries it is somewhere around