Pavel Pototsky transferred to the Institute of Roads and Communications of the Pajes Corps and received a higher education.

After graduating with honors in 1901, Pavel Pototsky traveled to the Netherlands to learn the intricacies of excavation.

After returning from the Netherlands, Pototsky began working on the construction of a canal at the mouth of the Dnieper River in Kherson.

In 1910, the Baku oil industry invited Pavel Pototsky, a well-educated and skilled engineer in excavation, to lead the filling of Bibiheybat Bay.

He was asked to continue the work of Witold Zglenicki, another Polish engineer who died prematurely in 1904 and studied oil fields in Baku.

[2] As early as the 1890s, Azerbaijan's oil industry asked the Tsarist government to allow them to exploit the waters of Bibiheybat Bay.

The main essence of this work was the construction of oil fields on the artificial lands to be created and drilling to the sea.

For this purpose, at the insistence of P. Pototsky, in 1910 the Sormovo plant was commissioned to produce a caravan of drilling machines.

Local stones brought from Shikhov Cape and Nargin Island were used to strengthen the shores and build dams.

He was awarded the Order of Lenin for achieving his five-year plan two and a half years ahead of schedule.

[7] Pavel Nikolayevich Pototsky died on March 15, 1932, and, according to his will, was buried in the earth-filled area of Bibiheybat, by the sea.

As a result of the efforts of the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Baku, the grave was reconstructed with the funds provided by the Council for the Protection of Martyrdom and Struggle Memory.