SOVIET PRACTICE OF DEVELOPING AUXILIARY FACILITIES FOR THE GAS INDUSTRY
The paper analyses the factors that contributed to the successful development of auxiliary facilities in the gas in-dustry in 1970-1980-ies. Primarily, those factors were the advantages of planned economy. Necessary equipment and materials were supplied to the auxiliary facilities through a centralized system of management. Equally important was the personal factor when managers and employees realized the importance of the tasks and put a lot of dedication and energy into achieving them. Thus, besides building gas infrastructure in rural settlements, the management of the gas industry helped to create a favourable social climate including by providing their employees with food.