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centers, specialized secondary schools, or higher schools. One higher 
fisheries school which is entirely devoted to upgrading skills is the 
Kaliningrad Institute for the Improvement of Qualifications (/nstitut 
povysheniia kvalifikatsii). This school is only for the training of top- 
level administrative and engineering personnel. Other secondary and 
higher schools may have a department devoted to such an 
“improvement” program among their regular courses. Enterprise cour- 
ses for improving qualifications are available to medium-level technical 
personnel as well as to high-level managers and engineers. 
The geographic distribution of Soviet fishery schools is shown in 
figure 1 and in the list below. 
