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Republics, and must receive a permit to move the same through the Union of 
Soviet Socialist Republics to destination. 
Note. — The said Bureau will indicate the districts in which the imported 
products may be utilized and will map out the subsequent routing at the time 
the permit and certificate are issued. The farms, scientific research organi- 
zations, and individuals must comply with all the technical rules of the Bureau 
of Quarantine at the place of utilization. 
Akt. 7. Authorized ports of entry for cotton products. — The ports for the 
entry of shipments of the products named in article 1, including those in 
transit and for compliance with the quarantine measures, are as follows: 
(a) Arriving from western China : Bachti, Chorog, Karacol, and Pocrovka. 
(6) Arriving from Afghanistan: Termez. 
(c) Arriving from Iran: Gaudan, Ashchabad, Baku; from November 1 to 
April 1 : Djulfa, Shachtachti, Artie. 
{d) Arriving from the Igdir district of Turkey : Markara ; from other districts 
of Turkey and Egypt: Odessa. 
(e) Arriving from the United States: Leningrad, Murmansk, Odessa. 
(/) Arriving for purposes of scientific research from various countries: 
Leningrad only. 
Note. — The routing of products through ports other than those above indi- 
cated, without a permit from the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Quarantines, 
is prohibited. 
Art. 8. Quarantine requirements to be met at port of entry. — Imported and 
in-transit shipments must be subjected at points of entry to quarantine meas- 
ures (checking of documents, inspection, examination, fumigation, etc.) pre- 
scribed by the said Bureau and effected by quarantine inspectors and quar- 
antine laboratories at the expense of the importing organizations. 
potato EESTEICTION& 
[Decree No. 2306, May 15, 1935] 
Article 1. Purpose of the decree. — (1) To protect the potato industry against 
the possibility of introducing the following: 
(tt) Potato wart {Si/nchytriutn endohioticum (Schilb.) Perc). 
(6) Colorado potato beetle {Leptinotarsa decenilineata Say). 
(c) Potato tuber worm { (Phthorimaea) Gnorimoschema operculella ZeU.) . 
id) Potato nematode {Ilcterodera rostochicnsis Woll.), and also other pests 
and diseases of potatoes not known to exist in the Union of Soviet Socialist 
Republics. 
(2) To prevent the distribution of powdery scab {Spongospora suhterranea 
(Walls.) Lang.) within the confines of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. 
Art. 2. Application of the decree. — This decree is applicable to the following 
products, materials, and agricultural implements : 
(a) Potatoes intended for technical, food, and planting purposes, and other 
live plants of the family Solanaceae and their parts, except seeds, 
(?>) Soil-cultivating implements and other objects that have been used on 
fields infested with pests and diseases named in article 1 of this decree. 
(c) Soil from fields, eoldframes, hotbeds, greenhouses, etc., infested by the 
above-named pests and diseases. 
(d) Wrappers that have been used for packing the said materials. 
Art. 3. Importation of potatoes prohibited. — On account of the w^ide dis- 
tribution in foreign countries of potato wart, potato tuber worm. Colorado 
potato beetle, and other quarantined pests and diseases not known to e;xist 
in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the importation from abroad of 
potatoes for technical purposes or for food or propagation is prohibited except 
by the institutions and organizations named in article 6 of this decree. 
Art, 4, Importation of infested live plants prohihitcd. — The importation 
from abroad of any kind of live plants, or parts thereof, infested by the 
injurious pests and disease named in article 1 of this decree is prohibited. 
Art. 5. Importation of pre.-^erved collections of pests and diseases permitted. — 
The importation of all kinds of preserved collections of the pests and diseases 
named in article 1 of this decree is allowed after quarantine inspection at 
points of entry. 
Art. 6. The All-Union Institute of Plant Industry, Vaschnil. is allowed to 
receive for scientific research specimens of potatoes and other plants from 
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