442 
The Far Eastern Fisheries Administration in Vladivostok was long 
neglected and did not have any fishery training craft at all. In recent 
years, however, and after many bitter complaints from Vladivostok, 
Moscow finally came through: seven modern training vessels were 
assigned to the Far East, of which one is used for training only 
part-time. The total gross tonnage of the Soviet training vessels operat- 
ing in the Pacific is now slightly below 25,000 tons. This tonnage 
constitutes more than one-third of the total training vessel tonnage, 
or about the same percentage contributed to the total Soviet fisheries 
catch by Far Eastern fishermen. 
Regional Training Fleets 
A short historical summary of the development of the fishery train- 
ing fleets in each of the five Regional Fisheries Administrations fol- 
lows: 
A. The Northern Fisheries Administration (SEVRYBA): 
The Northern Fisheries Administration currently operates three 
training vessels. Another sailing vessel of Finnish manufacture, Georgii 
Ratmanov, constructed in 1950, was retired. 
The remaining three vessels are modern. Kommissar Polukhin, 
(originally the Karel), a refrigerated transport, was constructed in 
the U.S.S.R. in 1968. It serves the dual role of transporting frozen 
products and training young seamen. The vessel, stationed at Mur- 
mansk, is equipped with extra charthouses, a navigational classroom 
with the latest radio-navigational equipment, and a mechanics training 
shop. On its first cruise, it took students from the Tobolsk’ Naviga- 
tional School to Iceland and Greenland. 
The Kompas, a Danish-built stern trawler of the Grumant class, 
was delivered in 1968. Its captain is L. G. Lozhkin. Its students 
apparently spend the year in classes ashore, but during the summer, 
when the Barents Sea is free of ice, take a 3-month training cruise. 
B. The Western Fisheries Administration (Zapryba) 
The Western Fisheries Administration was the first to receive a 
fleet of training vessels: In 1963, seven small vessels were delivered. 
Three of these, the Meridian, the Tropik, and the Mendeleyev, were 
sailing vessels retired from the Soviet Hydrographic Service. They 
were constructed in Finland between 1948 and 1951 and were 
adequate only for initial student orientation. The remaining four ves- 
sels, the Kurgan, the Grif, the Navigator, and the Kustanai, were 
all medium-sized fishing trawlers (SRT) constructed in the early 
1950’s. The first three of these were built in East Germany, while 
the Kustanai was of Finnish manufacture. 
These vessels, dubbed the “‘Baltic Fishery Training Squadron”’ were 
intended to ply the North and Baltic Seas with crews of about 20 
trainees each. This number represented only a small proportion of 
the total number of students enrolled in the Zapryba fishery training 
schools. This disadvantage was offset by the fact that the trainee 
cruises lasted only about a month so that, in good weather, several 
cruises could be mounted during the year. The number of trainees 
during 1963-65 increased from 142 to approximately 1,000. 
