U.S.S.R., WESTERN PART 



The Azerbaidjan Fisheries Station (formerly the 

 Baku Ichthyological Laboratory) ('34) 



History or origin: Founded in 1913 by the former 

 Department of Agriculture. 



Location: Baku, Street of the 28th April, No. 8. 



Organization to which attached: All-Union Scientific 

 Research Institute of Marine Fisheries and 

 Oceanography in Moscow. 



Purposes: Investigation of food fishes, hydrobiology, 

 hydrology, technique of fishing and curing and 

 manufacture of fish products, pisciculture, and 

 melioration of rivers and lakes for the fishery. 



Scope of activities: The Azerbaidjan fisheries region, 

 extending along the southwestern coast of the 

 Caspian Sea from the Samura river to the Persian 

 boundary. They likewise include the principal 

 river systems, chiefly the river Kura. 



Equipment: Its own premises will be completed by 

 the middle of 1934. The work of the station Ls 

 divided into four sections, ichthyological, piscicul- 

 ture and melioration (with a small hydrochemical 

 laboratory), fishing technique (a special laboratory 

 is being organized for testing net fabrics and net 

 preservation), handling fish and manufacture of 

 fish products with a technological and chemical 

 laboratory. A special oceanographic station with 

 hydrological, hydrochemical, and hydrobiological 

 laboratories is being organized in the current 

 year, — 1934. Hitherto corresponding research 

 work had been conducted by the Ichthyological 

 Section. Two research ve.s.sels, the motor ship 

 Delphix, and the motor boat, Ivnirm. Investi- 

 gations are likewise conducted on board ships of 

 the fishing fleet. The station is well supplied 

 with apparatus. A special scientific library of 

 about 12,000 volumes. 



Staff: Director of the Institution: M. K. Gerassimov. 



Ichthyologists: V. N. Bcliaiev, chief; L. V. 



Arnoldi, M. P. Borsenko, G. N. Goldentracht, 



K. F. Voevodko. 



Specialist in Pisciculture and melioration: A. N. 



Derjavin. 

 Specialist in fish handling and manufacturing: 



S. P. Levanidov. 

 Specialist in fishing technique: S. S. Sanov. 



22 Assistants: Shah Abdoulaiev, Mrs. E. R. 

 Fortunatova, A. Makhmoudbekov, J. S. Gins- 

 burg, A. S. Mamedov, T. T. Liagunov, Mrs. 

 M. S. MaiBorodina, A. Gadjibababekov, Miss 

 E. N. Kudelina, Miss E. B. Kulikova, N. J. 

 Babuskin, N. J. Belou.ssov, N. G. Afanassiev, 

 A. L. Amirdjanov, G. A. Tunikov, Miss M. S. 

 Fedorova, Miss A. S. Cinkova, T. S. Malian, 

 T. Djavadian, Miss L. Degtiarieva, Miss S. I. 

 Peissakhova, A. A. Nadiradze. 

 Technical and administrative personnel: 74 

 persons. 

 Provision for visiting investigators: No special ac- 

 commodations, but the station rarely refuses place 

 and instruments to persons desiring temporarily 

 to conduct investigations at the station. 

 Income: Sources, State Budget and money received 

 from industrial organizations for contracts con- 

 cluded by the station for inve.stigations of special 

 scientific questions. The budget for 1934 is 

 estimated at Rbls 463,000. 

 Provisions for publication of results: The following 

 publications have appeared: "Reports of the 

 Baku Ichthyological Laboratory," vol. 1, 2 

 (issues 1, 2); "Journal of the Azerbaidjan Scien- 

 tific Station of Fisheries," vol. 3, issues 1, 2, 3. 

 Papers of members of the station have likewise 

 been published in other publications, as Bulletin 

 of the Caspian Scientific Fisheries Expedition 

 (Baku 1932-33), in all 6 issues; Economic News 

 of Azerbaidjan; Journal of USSR Fisheries and 

 others. Over 800 pages are ready for print to be 

 published in 1934. 



Fisheries Station of Georgia ('34) 



History or origin: Founded in July, 1931, by the 

 People's Commissariat of Supplies of the Soviet 

 Socialist Republic of Georgia. 



Location: Batoum (Autonomous Soviet Socialist 

 Republic of Adjaristan), on the shore of the 

 Black Sea. 



Organization to which attached: Affiliated with the 

 All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Marine 

 Fisheries and Oceanography in Moscow. 



Purposes: The chief object of the station is the 



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