Russkoe pole eksperimentov (Russian: Русское поле экспериментов, Russian field of experiments) is the seventeenth studio album by Soviet/Russian punk band Grazhdanskaya Oborona.

The songs reflect the influence of noise punk, hardcore and industrial music and contain dark lyrics inspired by existentialist philosophy and literature.

In 1988 Grazhdanskaya Oborona recruited a full band: Yegor Letov as lead singer and guitarist, his friend Kuzya «UO» on guitar and bass, Igor Zhevtun («Jeff») as a lead guitarist and Arkady Klimkin on drums.

The songs "Lobotomiya" and "Vershki i koreshki" were dedicated to the memory of the late Dmitry Selivanov and were originally written for the musical project Kommunizm.

The title track quotes Bertrand Russell: "A smell of petroleum prevails throughout" (In Letov's interpretation "Eternity smells like petroleum"/Russian: Вечность пахнет нефтью).