Editing Vagit Alekperov (section)

=== Moscow ===
In 1990, Alekperov was appointed deputy minister of the Oil and Gas Industry of the [[Soviet Union]] and became the youngest deputy energy minister in Soviet history.<ref name=":3" /> At that time, Alekperov promoted the establishment of vertically integrated state-owned energy companies, which would bring together the wide range of organizations in the energy sector that were, at the time, reporting to different Soviet bureaucratic institutions.<ref>{{cite web|title=Vagit Y. Alekperov 1950— Biography|url=http://www.referenceforbusiness.com/biography/A-E/Alekperov-Vagit-Y-1950.html}}</ref>

Just at this time Western oil companies began to actively look for partners in Russia. During a visit to [[BP|British Petroleum]] facilities in the [[United Kingdom]] in 1990 Alekperov personally headed the Russian delegation at the negotiations. Rondo Fehlberg, an executive at BP, told [[The New York Times|NY Times]] that Alekperov took control of the agenda during that 1990 trip, sternly asking the BP executives to explain how a modern oil company should be set up.<ref name="Maass">{{Cite news|last=Maass|first=Peter|date=1 August 2004|title=The Triumph of the Quiet Tycoon|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/01/magazine/the-triumph-of-the-quiet-tycoon.html|access-date=20 November 2021|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>