english: And the famous pipeline to Murmansk (a never-built, missed opportunity that Russian oil scrapped in favor of the super-expensive and unprofitable ESPO pipeline) was thought up by Alekperov when he was still First Deputy Minister of Oil Industry in the USSR.
non_english: E il famoso oleodotto verso Murmansk (un'opportunità mancata, mai realizzata dalle industrie petrolifere russe, che hanno preferito il costosissimo e inutile oleodotto ESPO) era stato pensato da Alekperov, quando era ancora il Primo vice Ministro dell'industria petrolifera dell'URSS.