OREANDA-NEWS. On 14 May 2008 was announced, that General Director of UTair (UTair Aviation, JSC) Andrei Martirosov has assigned the airline’s Tu-154M liner (side number RA-85805) the name of Farman Salmanov, the person who discovered oil in Siberia and was one of the world’s most prominent researchers and geologists.

The honored geologist of the Russian Federation, Hero of Socialist Labor, honored oil and gas industry worker, Farman Kurban ogly Salmanov made an immense contribution to the formation of the country’s oil and gas industry. He supervised and took an active part in the discovery of over 150 oil and gas fields which became the base for oil and gas producing facilities in Western Siberia.

UTair’s plane bearing Farman Salmanov’s name made its first flight between Tyumen and Munich on April 22, 2008, a route which has risen to popularity among UTair’s passengers.

Other UTair aircraft also bear the names of outstanding people who made considerable contributions to the discovery of Russia’s resources and the development of its civil aviation, including leading liners in its air fleet named after Viktor Muravlenko, Vasily Bakhilov, Antonina Grigoryeva, Pyotr Panov, Roman Panchenko, Konstantin Luzhetsky, and Vladimir Kuleshov.