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



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Provision for visiting investigators: Only on the 

 completion of the new premises will the Institution 

 be able to accommodate visiting scientists. 



Income: The yearly budget of the Institution totals 

 Rbls. 1,460,300, and consists of funds allotted 

 from the State Budget and received from various 

 industrial organizations. 



Provision for publication of results: The scientific 

 papers of the Institution are published in the 

 "Memoirs" of the All-Union Scientific Research 

 Institution of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography. 



Polar Scientific Research Institute of Marine 

 Fisheries and Oceanography ('34) 



History or origin: The Murman Biological Station 

 has existed since 1930 as the Murman Branch of 

 the State Oceanographic Institution. This last 

 was reorganized at the close of 1930 into the 

 independent Polar Scientific Research Institute 

 of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography. 



Location: Temporarily located in the building of the 

 Marine Technicum, Murmansk. 



Organization to which attached: All-Union Research 

 Institution of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography. 



Purposes: (1) Oceanographic survey of the Barents 

 Sea: hydrology and chemistry, study of the cur- 

 rents and general dynamics; qualitative and 

 quantitative distribution of the flora and fauna, 

 ecology of marine organisms; distribution and 

 origin of the sediments covering the sea bottom. 

 (2) Scientific study of fi.sh industries: study of 

 coastal fishing, open-sea fishing, and deep-sea 

 fishing; study of the herring industry, especially 

 active methods of fishing. It is expected to 

 organize two stations in the near future at 

 Portchnikha on the East-Muram coast and in the 

 Ura inlet of the Motovsky Bay, for experimental 

 work on the biology and physiology of marine 

 organisms in local waters. 



Scope of activities: Barents Sea. 



Equipment: Property of the Murman Biological 

 Station has been transferred and is being used for 

 the organization of the.se laboratories. Two re- 

 search ships, Perseus, a steamship of 450 tons 

 and 360 h.p., and the Nikolai ICnipovitch, a 

 motor vessel of 200 h.p. 



iSto;^.' Director, G. I. Khlinovski. Vice-Director of 

 the scientific branch, M. P. Somov. Chief spe- 

 cialists, 14; Scientific staff, 21; Technical assist- 

 ants, 35; Administrative and technical personnel, 

 61. 

 (a) Section of Oceanography. Director, M. P. 



Ossadchikh; Vice-director, M. P. Somov. 

 Hydrologist: Tanzura. Geologist: Senko- 

 vitch. Biologists: Manteifel, Boldovsky. 



(b) Section of Fisheries. Director, N. A. Maslov. 



Ichthyologists: Aleev, V. F. Schmit, 

 Brynzcv. 



(c) Section of Fish-Industry. Director, J. T. 



Mentov. Specialists: N. P. Sherstoboev, 

 Senenov. Economists: Kannibolotsky, 

 Shishov. 

 Provision for visiting investigators: Ten visiting 



scientists can be accommodated. 

 Income: The yearly budget totals Rbls. 1,770,000 

 and consists of funds allotted from the State 

 budget and received from various industrial 

 organizations. 



The foregoing statement should be supplemented 

 by a short article that has recently appeared in 

 Science.' It is as follows: 



It is stated in Nature that a new biological station 

 is being built by the Academy of Sciences of the 

 U. S. S. R. at Murmansk on the Barents Sea. It is 

 intended for extensive research in morphology, 

 anatomy, embryology, physiology, biochemistry, 

 and ecology of sea organisms. 



Owing to the penetration of the warm waters of 

 the Atlantic into the Barents Sea, the fauna of the 

 latter is extremely rich and diverse. Of importance 

 is the fact that at Dalnye-Zelenets Bay the water is 

 transparent to a depth of 10 meters and that large 

 stretches of the sea bottom are visible from the 

 surface. The scientific workers at the station will 

 make a detailed study of the problems of evolution- 

 ary physiology, embryology, and the relationship 

 of the fauna with changed hydrological conditions 

 effected by the Gulf Stream. 



The Murmansk biological station will supply 

 biological material to the various research institutes 

 and higher educational institutions of the U. S. S. R. 

 Superintending the building is a special commission 

 consisting of S. A. Zernov (director of the station), 

 L. A. Orbeli, V. I. Vernadsky and N. M. Knipovich, 

 Professor K. M. Deryugin, of the University of 

 Leningrad, Professor L. N. Fedorov, director of the 

 All Union Institute of Experimental Medicine, and 

 Professor I. M. Kreps. 



The cost of building the Murmansk Station is 

 estimated at 2>\ million roubles, excluding equipment. 

 A scientific library, the zoological, botanical, mi- 



' The biological station at Barents Sea: Science, vol. 85, 

 p. 536, June 4, 1937. 



