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INTERNATIONAL ASPECTS OF OCEANOGRAPHY 



SpecialLst of fishing technique and fishing gear, 

 P. K. Gudimovitch. 



SpeciaHst of mechanization of fishing, N. G. 

 Borissov. 



2 economists, S. T. Mudzalevski, A. S. Petaiev. 



Assistant economist, Miss V. S. Rojanskaia. 



Technical staff — 13 persons. 

 Provisions for visiting investigators: No place. 

 Income: Funds supplied by commercial fisheries 



organizations according to special contracts. 



Budget in 1933 amounted to Rbls. 315,000. 

 Provision for publication of results: "Memoirs" 



(Trudy) of the Asov-Black Sea Fisheries Station. 



Ten issues of about 1000 pages. First two were 



published in Kertch, the rest in Rostov-on- 



the-Don. 



The Turkmenistan Fisheries Station ('34) 



History or origin: Founded in 1929 by act of Soviet 

 of People's Commissars of the Turkmen Soviet 

 Socialist Republic. 



Location: Is situated on the east coast of the Caspian 

 Sea in the northern part of Krasnovodsk Bay 

 in the Muraviev Gulf in the western suburbs of 

 the town Krasnovodsk on the sea shore. 



Organization to which attached: Affiliated with the 

 All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Marine 

 Fisheries and Oceanography in Moscow. 



Purposes: Study of the biology of food fishes and 

 other marine useful animals; control of the 

 effects of the fishing industries on fish and sea 

 animals; study of the natural resources of the 

 areas exploited; fish shoals in different seasons of 

 the year; study of existing fishing gear and 

 investigation for devising new gear. The prin- 

 cipal objects of investigation are the Caspian 

 herring, Caspian sardines, sea-perch, sea-roach, 

 and crayfishes. The chief gear studied — active 

 fishing gear, drift nets, purse nets, ring-nets, 

 and allomans (turkmen-nets). 



Scope of activities: The southeastern part of the 

 Caspian Sea, from Cape Beg Tash in the north 

 to the Persian boundar}' in the south (exclusively 

 territorial waters of the TSSR). 



Equipment: Its own house of 4 rooms; a separate 

 building for technical and chemical laboratories, 

 a small museum (now being enlarged); a store- 

 house; 2 living houses with lodgings for scientific 

 staff (9 one-room and 3 two-room lodgings); a 

 research motor sailing vessel Sokol of 60 tons, 

 chiefly used as a drifter, but can also be used for 

 trawling. Set of fishing gear, zoological and 



hydrobiological instruments, set of cathometers, 

 thermometers, etc., for ordinary hydrobiological 

 investigations, microscopes, binoculars, apparatus 

 for weighing and measuring. Special library of 

 2,200 volumes, but with an almost complete lack 

 of foreign editions. 



Staff: Director, V. I. Meissner (ichthyologist). 

 Ichthyologists: Miss E. V. Pojaluieva, Miss A. A. 

 Michailovskaia, Miss A. Karatchevskaia, Miss 

 Z. P. Tereschtenko. 

 Specialist in economics of fisheries: A. F. Nevraiev. 

 Assistants: B. V. Bukharin, B. I. Prikhodko. 

 Administrative and technical staff: 19 persons. 



Provision for visiting investigators: Two persons can 

 be accommodated. Students are taken in for 

 field work (at shore observing stations and 

 on board the boat, not more than four students 

 at a time). 



Income: The station is financed by the State Budget 

 and by contracts concluded with industrial 

 organizations (The Turkmen Fisheries Trust). 

 The sale of the fish catch also brings in a certain 

 income. The year's budget in 1933 amounted to 

 Rbls. 110,000, for 1934 it is estimated at Rbls. 

 167,000. 



Provisions for publication of results: As yet only the 

 first volume (170 pages) of the "Memoirs of the 

 Turkmen Scientific Institution of Fisheries" has 

 appeared. Four or 5 issues (about 300 pages) 

 of the second volume are to be published in 1934. 

 Separate papers of the station have been published 

 in the Bulletins of the Central Asiatic University 

 (Tashkent) and in the Bulletin of the Caspian 

 Expedition (Baku). 



Gidrograficheskij Otdel (Hydrographic 

 Department) ('37) 



Location: Rochal Quay, 2, Leningrad. 



Staff: Head of the Department, Inzhener flagman 3 



ranga, V. V. Vasiljev. 

 Assistant-Head of Department, Inzhener flagman 



3 ranga, N. J. Gorbunov. 

 Head of Cartographic Section, Inzhener flagman 



3 ranga, P. V. Messer. 

 Head of Instruments Section, Voennyj inzhener 1 



ranga K. S. Ukhov. 

 Head of Buoyage Section, Voennyj inzhener 2 



ranga P. A. Krasilnikov. 

 Head of Hydro-meteorological Section, Voennyj 



inzhener 1 ranga L. V. Kudovic. 

 Head of Planning Section, Voennyj inzhener 1 



ranga A. A. Vasiljev. 



