CATALOGUE OF INSTITUTIONS— U. S. S. R. 



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increased in summer 1934 by one assistant in 

 ichthyology. 



Provisions for visiting investigators: No places. 



Income: Source, contracts with industrial organiza- 

 tions, "Fish Industry Trust," and State Budget. 

 From the Fish Industry Trust, Rbls. 50,000, 

 State Budget, Rbls. 16,500. Building Fund, 

 Rbls. 7,000. 



Provision for publication of results: Two papers are 

 being prepared, (a) a description of the present 

 state of the fishing industries of the Manguistau 

 district, (b) the seal industries of the Caspian Sea; 

 but in view of the recent organization of this 

 branch it has as yet no publications. 



The Uralo-Caspian Fisheries Station ('34) 



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

 Central Scientific Institution of Fishery Investiga- 

 tions, Moscow, on the initiative of the head local 

 organizations of Kazakstan. 



Location: In the town Gouriev of West-Kazakstan 

 Province, on the Ural River 20 kilometers from 

 the Caspian Sea. 



Organization to which attached: The All-Union 

 Scientific Research Institute of Marine Fisheries 

 and Oceanography of the Chief Fisheries Depart- 

 ment of the USSR People's Commissariat of 

 Supplies. 



Purposes: Survey of the natural resources of the 

 Uralo-Caspian fish industry region with the object 

 of their rational exploitation and propagation. 



Scope of activities: The eastern part of the North 

 Caspian Sea, namely, the whole coast from the 

 straight line passing through the village Ganiush- 

 kino on the Manguistau River as its west boundary 

 to the boundaries of Turkmenistan in the east. 

 Besides the sea this station also studies the rivers 

 Denguiza, Ural, and Emba, Lake Tcherkal, and 

 two large series of lakes, the Kamysh-Samarskaja 

 and KzUkuginskaia. 



Equipment: Premises of 400 sq. meters. A special 

 hydrochemical laboratory, 2 wooden motor re- 

 search fishing boats. The scientific equipment 

 amounts to Rbls. 28,500. 



Staff: Director, K. P. Mulikovski. 



Ichthyologists: Golovanov, Koshevnikov, Raz- 



gonov, Nikitina, Saenkova. 

 Assistants: Kargina, Doroshkov, Aidanaliev, 



Manessy. 

 Specialists in pisciculture: Diakonov, Gurieva. 

 Specialists in economic: Miroshkin, Rutz, Kossov. 

 Specialists in hydrotechnique: Shchelkov. 



The total allotted scientific staff is 26, but the 



actual number is 16. 

 Auxiliary technical .staff: 21 persons. 



Provision for visiting investigators: No special places, 

 but college students are always accommodated 

 in the vacant places. 



Income: From the State Budget, Rbls. 2500; Rbls. 

 255,000 was received from the Uralo-Caspian 

 State Fish Industry Trust in accordance with 

 contracts. Income from the realization of the 

 fish catch from experimental fi.^ihing. The total 

 yearly budget in 1933 amounted to Rbls. 273,000, 

 excluding Rbls. 20,000 for the acquisition of 

 scientific and other equipment and Rbls. 20,000 

 fund for building and ship-repairing. 



Provision for publication of results: No publications 

 planned in 1933, as that year was exclusively 

 allotted to the collection of scientific materials. 



Asov-Black Sea Scientific Research Institute ('34) 



History or origin: Founded in 1933 by the order 

 of the People's Commissariat of Supplies of 

 U. S. S. R. (reorganization of the Asov-Black Sea 

 Fisheries Station founded in 1920). 



Location: Kertdi, Oulitza Pervoi Domni, No. 24, 

 on the Kertch Bay in the Kertch Straits. 



Organization to which attached: All-Union Scientific 

 Research Institute of Marine Fisheries and 

 Oceanography in Moscow, — the Chief Fisheries 

 Department of the Commissariat of Supplies. 



Purposes: Scientific investigations of fisheries and 

 oceanography. 



Scope of activities: Asov-Sea and the Black Sea. 



Equipment: Hydrochemical, hydrobiological, ich- 

 thyologioal laboratories, two research vessels, a 

 sail and motor schooner and a motor launch; 

 microscopes, cathometers, thermometers, ap- 

 paratus for determining currents, chemical 

 apparatus, special fishing gear, and special field 

 hydrobiological equipment. 



Staff: Director, V. N. Tikhonov. 

 Chief hydrologist, A. V. Elkinbard. 

 Chief hydrobiologist, V. L. Pauly. 

 Hydrobiologist, V. P. Vorobiev. 

 5 assistant ichthyologists: V. V. Abramov, N. V. 

 Lebediev, V. N. Maiski, A. N. Smirnov, R. 

 Kostiutchenko. 

 3 assistant hydrobiologists : Miss Dolgopolskaia, 



Miss L. S. Vorobieva, S. N. Stark. 

 Chief specialist of fishing technique, A. V. Barshev. 

 Specialist of fishing technique, V. P. Freiberg. 



