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INTERNATIONAL ASPECTS OF OCEANOGRAPHY 



"Bulletin of the Pan-Caspian Fisheries Stations," 

 etc. Over 400 pages of printed matter have 

 appeared. 



The AU-Union Scientific Research Institution of 

 Marine Fisheries and Oceanography ('34) 



History or origin: Organized in October, 1933, by the 

 fusion of two scientific institutions, the All-Union 

 Scientific Research Institute of Marine Fisheries 

 and the State Oceanographical Institute. 



Location: Moskow, Piatnitskaia 33. 



Organization to which attached: Chief Fisheries De- 

 partment of the U. S. S. R. CommLssariat of 

 Supplies. 



Purposes: Survey of the seas of U. S. S. R. in respect 

 of the needs of national economy and, in particu- 

 lar, of the fishery and marine animal industries, 

 likewise the study of the existing technique of 

 these industries and of its rationalization. 



Scope of activities: Barents, Karsk, Bering, Okhotsk, 

 Japan, Black, Caspian, and Aral seas: Lakes 

 Balkhash and Khanka. 



Equipment: Affiliated institutions (Asterisk* indi- 

 cates a separate report). 



* The Polar Institute of Fisheries and Ocean- 



ography, Murmansk. 



* The Pacific In.stitute of Fisheries and Ocean- 



ography, Vladivostok. 



* The Asov-Black Sea Institute of Fisheries and 



Oceanography, Kertch. 

 The Volga-Caspian Fisheries Station, Astrakhan. 

 The North Area Fisheries Station, Archangelsk. 



(Note: No specific information received.) 

 The Karelian Fisheries Station, Kandalaksha. 

 The Ob-Tasovsk Fisheries Station, Tobolsk. 



* The Kamchatka Fisheries Station, Petropav- 



lovsk , 

 The Sakhalin Fisheries Station, Alexandrovsk 



(Sakhalin). 

 The North Caucasus Fisheries Station, Rostov 



on the Don. 



* The Georgian Fisheries Station, Batoum. 



* The Ukrainian Fisheries Station, Odessa. 



* The Uralo-Caspian Fisheries Station, Gouriev 



(a branch at Fort-Alexandrovsky). 



* The Azerbaidjan Fisheries Station, Baku. 



* The Daguestan Fisheries Station, Makhach- 



Kala. 



* The Turkmenistan Fisheries Station, Kras- 



novodsk. 

 The Crimea Hydrophysical Station, Katzivelli. 

 (Note: No specific information received.) 



The Aral Marine Fisheries Station, Aralsk. 



The Balkhash Fisheries Station, Balkhash Lake. 



The Central In.stitution, located at Moskow, 

 at present occupies temporary premises, but is 

 erecting a special large building. It possesses 

 the following laboratories: physical, chemical, 

 geological, biological (plankton, benthos, bac- 

 teriology), mechanization of the industries section, 

 economical section. All the floating craft belongs 

 to the affiliated institutions. 

 Staff: Director, K. A. Mekhonoshiu; Vice-director, 



M. T. Chesnokov; Scientific secretary, A. D. 



Starostin. 



(a) Section of Physics and Chemistry of the Sea. 



Director, V. V. Shuleikin, professor, corre- 

 spond, member of the Academy (physics). 

 Chemists: S. V. Bruevich, professor; B. A. 

 Scopinzev, T. Trofimov. Hydrologists : V. 

 A. Vasnezov, Sazev, Stockman, Lednev, 

 Boshich, assistants. 



(b) Section of Geology of the Sea. Director, 



M. V. Klenova. Geologists: T. T. Gorsh- 

 kova, Kalianov, Batalina, assistants. 



(c) Section of Biology of the Sea. Director, A. A. 



Shorygin. Bacteriologists: V. S. Butke- 

 vich, professor; Dianova, Voroshilova, as- 

 sistants. Botanists: K. T. Meier, professor; 

 Persidsky, Kizeeva, as.sistants. Plankton: 

 A. T. Jashnov, professor; Ussachev, Bogo- 

 rov, Chajanova, assistants. Benthos: V. 

 A. Brozkaya; Briskina, Virstein, assistants. 



(d) Section of Ichthyology. Director, B. S. IljLn; 



N. M. Knipovich, professor; G. N. Monas- 

 tyrsky, E. V. Messiazeva, T. S. Rass, 

 Samakhaev, Dmitriev, Berdichevsky, Pa- 

 khomov, Perzeva, assistants. 



(e) Section of Fish-Culture. Director, A. T. 



Beresovsky. L. V. Piatakov, Amelina, 

 Nasariev, Evstafiev, Kusnezova. 



(f) Section of Marine Mammals. Director, S. J. 



Freiman. Dorofeev, Barabash, Zalkin, 

 Kluraov, Nicolsky, assistants. 



(g) Section of Fisheries Technique. Director, 



A. A. Jaschenko. Specialists: Polonsky, 



Jampolsky, Uspensky, Liman, Mironov, 



Skvorzov, Kanin. 

 (h) Section of Fisheries Economics. Director, A. 



Shitkovsky. Economists: Ivanov, Ras- 



kina, Konkina. 

 Staff of the Institution: Chief specialists, 12; 



Scientific staff, 113; Technical assistants, 



28; Administrative personnel, 67. 



