Tatneft Oil Museum, Shugurovo
About museum
In the village of Shugurovo there is the Oil Museum, which is a monument to industrial history and the site of the USSR's first oil field in Leninogorsk. It was opened by the Tatneft company in 2015 on the site of the Shugurovsky oil-bitumen plant, the very first oil industry enterprise in the Republic of Tatarstan. When visiting the museum you can take a tour of the mine adit, the smelting works and the oil distillation shop and learn about the processes of primary oil processing. The museum's main exhibit is the preserved environment, which provides an insight into the history of Russia's oil extraction and refining industry.