The State operates the Gosudarstvennyy Okeanograf icheskiy Instltut 

 (GOIN) or State Oceanographic Institute and Vsesoyuznyy Nauchno- 

 Issledovatel' skiy Institut Morskogo Rybnogo Khozyaystva i Okeano- 

 grafii (VNIRO) or All-Union Scientific Research Institute of Marine 

 Fisheries and Oceanography. 



Other institutions specialize in area studies and include: the Ark- 

 ticheskiy i Antarkticheskiy Nauchno Issledovatel' skiy Institut (AANII) 

 or Arctic and Antarctic Scientific Research Institute; Azovsko- 

 Chernomorskiy Nauchno-Isseldovatel' skiy Institut Morskogo Rybnogo 

 Khozyaystva i Okeanografii (AZCHERNIRO) or Azov-Black Sea Scientific 

 Research Institute of Marine Fisheries and Oceanography; Azovskiy 

 Nauchno Issledovatel' skiy Institut Rybnogo Khozyaystva (AZNIIRKH) 

 or Azov Scientific Research Institute of Fisheries; Baltiyskiy Nauchno- 

 Isseldovatel' skiy Institut Morskogo Rybnogo Khozyaystva i Okeanografii 

 (BALTNIRO) or Baltic Scientific Research Institute of Marine Fisheries 

 and Oceanography; Kaspiyskiy Nauchno-Issledovatel' skiy Institut 

 Rybnogo Khozyaystva (KASPNIIRKH) or Caspian Scientific Research 

 Institute of Fisheries; Nauchno-Issledovatel' skiy Institut Rybnogo 

 Khozyaystva (NHRKH) or Scientific Research Institute of Fisheries; 

 Polyarnyy Nauchno-Issledovatel' skiy Institut Morskogo Rybnogo Khoz- 

 yaystva i Okeanografii (PINRO) or Polar Scientific Research Institute 

 of Sea Fisheries and Oceanography; Tikhookeanskiy Institut Rybnogo 

 Khozyaystva (TIRKH) or Pacific Ocean Fisheries Institute; Tikhookean- 

 skaya Okeanograf icheskaya Nauchnaya Stantsiya (TONS) or Pacific Ocean 

 Oceanographic Scientific Station; Severnyy Polyarnyy Nauchno-Issle- 

 dovatel' skiy Institut Morskogo Rybnogo Khozyaystva i Okeanografii 

 (SEVPINRO) or North Polar Scientific Research Institute of Marine 

 Fisheries and Oceanography; Tsentral'nyy Nauchno-Issledovatel' skiy 

 Institut Informatskiy i Techniko Ekonomicheskikh Issledovaniy Rybnogo 

 Khozyaystva (TSNIITEIRKH) or Central Scientific Research Institute 

 of Technical and Economic Investigations of the Fisheries; and Tik- 

 hookeanskiy Nauchno-Issledovatel' skiy Institut Rybnogo Khozyaystva 

 i Okeanografii (TINRO) or Pacific Research Institute of Fisheries 

 and Oceanography. 



The U.S.S.R. is responsible for the Mirovoy Tsentr Dannykh VI 

 (MTD-Vl), or World Data Center-B for Oceanography (WDC-B). The 

 Moskovskiy Gosudarstvennyy Universitet (MGU) or Moscow State Univer- 

 sity is involved in programs to educate oceanologists; it also has 

 marine research programs. Some of the programs sponsored by the 

 U.S.S.R. are identified by acronyms only: BIOTALASSA — a study of the 

 oceanological basis for bioproductivity of propective open-ocean 

 fishing grounds; BIOSHELF — a study of the shelf and continental 

 divide; DINEKT — a study of the dynamics of equatorial currents and 

 structure of water; GEOS — a study of sedimentary layers in the ocean; 

 and VOLNA — a study of surface and internal waves. 



662. UNITED KINGDOM: UK 



The Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC) established 

 in 1967 to consolidate environmental research activities in the UK 

 includes several institutes and other groups involved in marine re- 

 search activities: the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), the Institute 

 for Geological Sciences (IGS), the Institute of Marine Biology (1MB), 

 the Institute of Oceanographic Sciences (lOS), and the Institute of 

 Marine Environmental Research (IMER). 



lOS, established in 1973, inherited the functions of the National 

 Institute of Oceanography (NIO), the Institute of Coastal Oceanogra- 

 phy and Tides (ICOT), and a unit on coastal sedimentology, all of 

 which were abolished with the creation of lOS. In 1977, lOS created 

 within its structure the Marine Information and Advisory Service 



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