Leninogorsk exhibition traces the Timyashevo family line from the 18th-century Tatar scholar Utyz Imyani to a Romashkino oil engineer

An exhibition called "The Timyashevo Code: From Sufi Wisdom to Big Oil" has opened at the Tatneft Oil Museum in Leninogorsk, Tatarstan. It shows the family line, tied to the village of Timyashevo, that links the 18th-century Tatar theologian, poet and educator Utyz Imyani with Rafkhat Mingareev, one of the first engineers of the Romashkino oil field. Tatar-inform reported on it on 13 November.

Utyz Imyani (Gabdrakhim) travelled through Central Asia and Afghanistan, restored Osman's Quran in Samarkand around 1789, founded a madrasa in Kuakbash and spent his last years in Timyashevo. His edition of Kul Gali's poem "Kyissa-i Yusuf" was reprinted 70 times. His mausoleum opened in the Timyashevo cemetery on 10 June 1994 and is a heritage site and pilgrimage place.

Mingareev was the first specialist with higher education and the chief engineer of the Shugurovsky field, created in 1945, and his name tops Order No. 1 of 1949 for Romashkino, one of the ten largest oil fields in the world. The show rests on about 15 years of research by Almetyevsk historian Alfiya Yamaeva, who traced the 10 families that moved from the village of Utyz Imyani to Timyashevo in 1770 and drew six detailed family trees for Kuakbash, Verkhnie Chershily, Timyashevo and Zai-Karatai.