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BIOLOGY OF THE SEAS OF THE U.S.S.R. 



of the Hydrometeorological Service, the Ministry of Marine, the Ministry of 

 Higher Education, Administration of Nature Reserve and some others. In 

 the northern seas the efforts of the Marine Scientific Institute and its 20-year 

 expeditions on the ship Persey and the work done by the Arctic Institute with 

 its numerous expeditions on the ships Chelyuskin, Sadko, Sedov, Rusanov and 

 others, were mostly responsible for this progress. 



K. Derjugin's researches and the work of his expeditions on the ship 

 Rosinante and others, and the organization of the Pacific Ocean Institutes of 

 Fisheries and Oceanography at Vladivostok in 1925 were just as important 

 for research in the Far Eastern Seas. 



Knipovitch's expeditions and the work done by the Azov-Black Seas 

 Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (from 1921) have played an important 

 role in the investigations in that area, while in the Caspian Sea important 

 research was carried out by the three expeditions of Knipovitch (1904-15) and, 

 during the Soviet period, in the nineteen-thirties, by scientific and industrial 

 expeditions. 



The Solovets Biological Station of the St Petersburg Society of Naturalists 

 was set up in 1881. In 1899 this station was transferred to the town Aleksan- 

 drovsk (Kola Guba, on the Barents Sea); it remained there until 1929, when 

 it was transferred to Murmansk. In 1933 it was reorganized together with the 

 State Institute of Oceanography and the Institute of Fisheries into the Polar 

 Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography. The Murman Marine Biological 

 Institute in Dal'naya Zelenetskaya Guba mentioned in Table 2 came into 

 being in 1936, with no direct connection with the old Murmansk Station, but 

 it is continuing the work of the latter. 



Table 2. Institutions carrying on research on the marine flora and fauna of the U.S.S.R. 



Marine Hydrophysics 



