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Rafinat Yarullin is general director of the state holding company Tatneftekhiminvest, and a recognized expert on petrochemicals. He says: "Let’s say you get one dollar for a certain amount of crude oil. If you take that oil and compress it, refine it, separate and sell all the different petrochemical products like benzine, bitumen, diesel, propane and other substances, then you can make 10 or 20 times that amount. That’s the government’s strategy."
Tatarstan is well placed to develop such a strategy. It has a long history of academic excellence in chemistry, going back to 1806, when the chemistry faculty of Kazan State University was constructed, launching the beginning of organic chemistry in Russia. The faculty educated and attracted such world famous chemists as Alexander Butlerov, who developed the theory of the chemical structure of organic compounds.