by Mikhail GLUBOKOVSKY, Dr. Sc. (Biol.), Director of the All-Russia Research Institute of Fishing and Oceanography (Moscow) In October 2013, the All-Union (today All-Russia) Research Institute of Fishing and Oceanography (VNIRO), the leading institution in a relevant branch of national economy, celebrates its 80th anniversary. In 1983 it was awarded Order of the Red Banner of Labour for successes in the development of agricultural science and introduction of progressive methods of catch and processing of fish. стр. 52 According to the regulations approved in 1933 by the USSR People's Commissar of Procurement Anastas Mikoyan, a newly established institution was entrusted with the responsibility "to carry out a comprehensive research of sea water bodies, their natural production and primary resources (fish, invertebrates, seaweeds) for the purpose of development, use, and establishment of operating forms and practices". To address the set tasks, scientists needed laboratories of marine physics and chemistry, sea geology, biology, ichthyology, reproduction of primary sources, exploration technologies, and economy. Institutes of Sea Fishing and Oceanography in Murmansk, Vladivostok, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Kerch and on Sakhalin, scientific stations in Rostov-on-Don, Odessa, Batumi, Astrakhan, Baku, Guryev, Makhachkala, Tobolsk and other cities made part of the Institute as its branches. The Institute also incorporated Murmansk Meteorological Observatory, in 1935 the All-Union Research Institute of Fishing Industry was added to it. From the moment of formation of the Institute, many outstanding scientists worked there, for example, the zoologist and biologist, USSR AS Academician Sergei Zernov, the ichthyologist and hydrobiologist, Azerbaijani AS Academician Alexander Derzhavin, oceanologists Drs. Sc. (Geogr.) Anatoly Yelizarov and Nikolai Zubov, hydrobiologist Dr. Sc. (Biol.) Boris Manteifel (in the 1950-1960s he led the section of s ... Читать далее