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To facilitate the day-to-day administration of Soviet fishery educa- 
tional policies, an Office of Personnel and Educational Institutions 
under Director Smagin has been formed. 
Routine attention to the problems of running the Soviet fishery 
educational institutions, of establishing new policies, and of executing 
the policies already set, is the responsibility of Mr. Evgenii Ikonnikov- 
Tsipulin who is Mr. Smagin’s Deputy. 
Mr. Ikonnikov has been the Deputy Director of the Office of Per- 
sonnel and Educational Institutions at least since 1969, but probably 
for much longer. Little is known about the day-to-day functioning 
of his office, nor are the names of his assistants known. He is neverthe- 
less the best informed Soviet official on fishery education and training 
and it is mainly due to his unceasing and enlightened efforts that 
so much progress has been made. 
From the central Office of Personnel and Educational Institutions 
in Moscow, the line of direct authority goes to the sections of Person- 
nel and Educational Institutions within each of the 5 territorial ad- 
ministrations of the Soviet Ministry of Fisheries. The Soviet Union 
has territorial administrations in Murmansk (Sevryba), Riga (Zapryba), 
Kerch (Azcheryba), Astrakhan (Kaspryba), and Vladivostok 
(Dalryba). Each of these has under its immediate authority a section 
for Personnel and Educational Institutions with the same daily respon- 
sibilities for their territory that Mr. Ikonnikov in Moscow has for 
the central apparatus. 
Statistical Review 
a. Students 
The number of students in Soviet secondary fishery schools and 
higher institutes expanded continuously after World War II from a 
few thousand in the mid-1940’s to about 56,000 in 1966. To provide 
for this increasing number of students, at least 15 fishery schools 
were established during those years. The number of students has in- 
creased less rapidly|since then to about 61,000 in 1973 7% and has 
remained constant through 1975. About 40 percent of all students 
(an estimated 24,400) attend the 6 higher fishery institutes, while 
60 percent (an estimated 36,600) are students in the 25 secondary 
fishery schools. 
Approximately one-half, or about 30,000 Soviet fishery students, 
are taking correspondence courses; they work fulltime in the fishing 
industry and only travel to schools for examinations and laboratory 
work.”* 
Each higher institute has between 2,000 and 5,000 students, while 
the secondary fishery school students range from a few hundred to 
over 4,000 per school. 
At the present time, about 10,000 students graduate each year 
from Soviet secondary and higher fishery schools.” As a result of 
this continual influx of skilled employees, the number of trained spe- 
cialists working in the fishing industry has increased steadily. In 1965, 
the Soviet fishing industry employed about 47,000 graduates of higher 
and secondary fishery schools, and by 1968, this figure had grown 
23 Rybnoe Khoziaistvo, May 1973. 
24 Vodnii Transport, February 5, 1970. 
25 Rybnoe Khoziaistvo, April 1971 and May 1973. 
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