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A Soviet dream rising from the sea, Oil Rocks documents the creation and survival of the world’s largest offshore oil platform—part industrial utopia, part ghost town.
Oil Rocks: City Above the Sea - Built on oil and ambition
Long before the term “offshore drilling” became commonplace, the Soviet Union built Oil Rocks, a vast, man-made city on steel stilts deep in the Caspian Sea. Conceived by Stalin in 1949 as a symbol of Soviet might and industrial power, the platform became both a workplace and a home to generations of oil workers.
Combining rare archival propaganda footage with exclusive modern-day access, the documentary offers a visually stunning and historically rich look at this surreal outpost. In an era of shifting energy politics, the film serves as a haunting monument to 20th-century ambition, endurance, and the cost of progress.
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