[Constructivist cover and illustrations by N. Sitnikov] Groznenskiy neftyanik (Grozny Oilman): popular-technical monthly journal. No. 1, November 1930. Chechen Miners' Union. Grozny, 1930. In Russian.

Грозненский нефтяник : популярно-технический журнал : издание «Грознефти» и Чеченского обкома союза горнорабочих. № 1, ноябрь 1930 г. / ответственный редактор Л. Г. Гинзбург ; обложка и иллюстрации Н. Ситникова.
Грозный, 1930. Год издания первый. 80 страниц, с иллюстрациями, диаграммами и складными таблицами.
Содержание: К нефтяникам Северного Кавказа ; Договор круговой поруки нефтяников ; Новая нефтяная пятилетка ; Новый Бенойский нефтяной район ; Газлифт на промыслах Грознефти ; Корреспонденция из Америки ; Неконденсированные газы заводов ; Производство масел из нефтей парафинового основания ; Геология на службе нефтепромышленности ; Статистические данные по Грознефти.
Твердый переплет, крышки оклеены декоративной бумагой, корешок обтянут черной тканью, энциклопедический формат. Лицевая обложка номера вплетена.
Фиолетовые овальные штампы на титульной странице, на с. 17 и на складной таблице, пометки от руки чернилами на титуле и на полях.
Переплет - хорошее: утрата бумаги с остатками клея и пятна у верхнего угла лицевой крышки, потертости, утраты бумаги по краям. Блок - хорошее: крепкий; надрывы по краям складной таблицы.
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Groznenskiy neftyanik (Grozny Oilman): popular-technical journal : publication of the Groznefti trust and the Chechen Regional Committee of the Miners' Union. No. 1, November 1930 / editor-in-chief L. G. Ginzburg ; cover and illustrations by N. Sitnikov.
Grozny, 1930. First year of publication. 80 pages, illustrated, with diagrams and folding tables.
Contents: To the Oilmen of the North Caucasus ; Agreement of Circular Socialist Mutual Guarantee ; The New Oil Five-Year Plan ; The New Benoy Oil District ; Gas-Lift on the Grozneft Fields ; Correspondence from America ; Uncondensed Gases of the Refineries ; Production of Oils from Paraffin-Base Crudes ; Geology in the Service of the Oil Industry ; Statistical Data on Grozneft.
Hardcover, boards covered with decorative paper, spine covered with black cloth, enlarged format. Front wrapper of the issue bound in.
Violet oval stamps on the title page, on p. 17 and on a folding table, manuscript ink marks on the title and in the margins.
Binding good: loss of paper with glue remains and stains at the upper corner of the front board, rubbing, losses of paper along the edges. Text block good: firm; edge tears on the folding table.

This is the first number of Groznenskiy neftyanik (Grozny Oilman), a popular-technical monthly issued at Grozny for November 1930 by the Groznefti oil trust and the Chechen Regional Committee of the Miners' Union, edited by L. G. Ginzburg. It is notable first for its late-Constructivist design. The cover and illustrations are by N. Sitnikov, who signed several blocks and dated them 1930. The cover is a black block-printed composition: a monumental Roman numeral V, the five-year plan, carries a circled figure 2 1/2 at its tip, a worker strains at a wheel at its foot, and a derrick and a cracking column rise behind, under a hand-lettered title climbing diagonally in brush script beside a circled numeral 1. Inside, the artist turns statistics into pictures: stepped storage tanks, refinery stills and ascending drilling lines replace the bars and curves in the chart of the new oil five-year plan of the North Caucasus; a diagonal page sets 1917 against 1930, with an arrow rising to ten million tons; the geological sections carry heavy hand-lettered capitals set vertically. The text argues the same case: the slogan of the day, the oil five-year plan in two and a half years, runs through the issue, with the circular mutual guarantee signed at Grozny on 16 October 1930 by the oil miners of the North Caucasus, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Dagestan, with pledges against absenteeism and for shock brigades. Beside the propaganda stand technical papers on the new Benoy district, gas-lift, cracking gases and lubricating oils, and a correspondence from America. It will interest collectors of Soviet graphic design and historians of the oil industry of Chechnya and the North Caucasus.