Cabinet-Type Gas Regulating Points in the Azerbaijan SSR: Development and Implementation (1959)

The deposit contains documents from 1959 on the development and implementation of cabinet-type gas regulating points (GRPs) in the Azerbaijan SSR. The then Minister of Communal Economy Abutalib Abdullaev and engineer Aleksandr Narimanov proposed abandoning standalone stone GRP buildings and replacing them with compact cabinets housing small-size vertical RD-type pressure regulators. The proposal was approved by the Board of the State Committee for Construction (Decision No. 27 of June 10, 1959) and found expedient by the State Scientific and Technical Committee of the Council of Ministers, which inspected the manufactured cabinets. The collection includes the Gosstroy decision and letter, the GNTK opinion, the calculation of economic efficiency, documents on the authors’ remuneration and advance, ministry certificates (30 cabinets manufactured; about 400 planned for 1959–1960), and working drawing No. 1755-5a (Azneftproekt, Goychay, 1959) with its specification and scope of work. Documents from the State Archive of the Azerbaijan Republic (1961–1965) record a board decision to replace stone-building GRPs with cabinets of the “Azerbaijan” type, orders of the Minister of Communal Economy Nos. 358 and 382 (December 1961) and Glavgaz Directive No. 27 (August 7, 1965). Five of these archival documents are given as text transcriptions; the others are reproduced from the personal archive of A. M. Abdullaev. Each document is presented with English, Azerbaijani and Russian text. The deposit also analyses the drawing and the technical solution, and notes discrepancies within the sources (figures, order numbers, dates) without altering them. Three-dimensional illustrations of the drawing were prepared with the help of an AI assistant (Claude, Anthropic) and serve for illustration only. Savings figures are calculated estimates, not records of actual savings. Amounts are in pre-1961 rubles. The deposit serves as a source and supplement to the monograph Gasification and Operation of Gas Economy in Azerbaijan (1955—1970) (Zenodo, 2025).