SUPPLEMENT INFORMATION ON THE ORGANIZATION AND PERSONNEL OF THE HYDROMETEROLOGICAL SERVICE OF THE USSR

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The following information on the GW (ifydremeteorological Service) of the
USSR, taken from three 1949 issues of IReteorologiya i Gidrologiya
available, is intended to supplement that in FDD Summary No 51IIe dro be
orological Service of the USSR." 'e $ydroox-
Numbers in parentheses refer to appended sources.
Main Administration of the Rydroneteoroloaical Service (GUM)
The chief of the Division of Scientific Institutions was listed as Dnitriy
Sergeyevich Kuznetsov, Candidate of Physicomathematical Sciences.(1)
The chief of the GItS, V. V. Shuleykin, was elected vice-president of the
Asiatic Regional Commission 3f the International Meteorological Organization
in 1949.,(3)
Main Geophysics Observatory (GOO)
A session of the Scientific Council of the OGO vas held from 1 to 5
February 1949 to discuss the results of the previous year Ts work.
A report was given by V. A. Gavrilov on the new DM-7 visibility meter
which he had designed. The Methodics Commission of the GOO approved the pro-
duction of a series of these instruments for testing at meteorological stations.
M. I. Budyko submitted a report on "Climatic Factors in the Physicogeo-
graphical Process." This was said to constitute a new departure in the work of
the GOO, . : was shoving increasing interest in linking geophysics with phys-
ical geography.
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RUPPI pRY TVPFMWA ON ON TEE ORGANIZATION AND PERSONNffi.
OF' TEE E1JOMETECROLOGICAL SERVICE OF TEE USSR
The following information on the GMS (Rydroseteoro].o;ical Service) of the
USSR, taken from three 1949 issues of Meteorologiya i Gidroloxile not previously
available, is int'nded to supplement that in FM Sunssy No 51, "The Wdromete-
orological Service of the USSR."
Numbers in parentheses refer to appended sources.
Main Administration of the Wdrameteorological Service (GUM)
The chief of the Divis` of Scientific Institutions was listed as Dstitriy
Sergeyevich Kuzneteov, candidate of Physicamathematical Sciences.(1)
The chief of the GIS, V. V. Shuleykin, was elected vice-president of the
Asiatic Regional Commission of the International Meteorological Organization
in 1949..(3)
Main Geophysics Observatory (GOO)
A session of the Scientific Council of the OGO was held from 1 to 5
February 1949 to discuss the results of the previous year's work.
A report was given by V. A. Gavrilov on the new DM-7 visibility meter
which he had designed. The Methodics Commission of the GGO approved the pro-
duction of a series of these instruments for testing at meteorological stations.
M. I. Budyko submitted a report on "Climatic Factors in the Physicogeo-
graphical Process." This was said to constitute a new departure in the work of
the GOO, which was showing increasing interest in linking geophysics with phys-
ical geography.
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A representative from the Tashkent Geophysics Observatory, B. A. Ayzen-
shtat, described a method he had developed for 'etermining the components of
the heat bs1nnce of an active surface. This report aroused great interest in
the Scientific Council. (2)
No further organizational information was published in the description of
this session.
Prof N. A. Salitin, Doctor of Phycicomathematical Sciences, who had worked
for many years as a specialist in actinometry at the GGO, died on 21 August
1949. At the time of his death he was supervising the design and construction
of a new Actinemetric Pavilion for the GGO at Seltsy (renamed Voyekovo). This
is teing set up to replace the Pavlovsk Actinometric Institute, which was de-
stroyed by the Germans during World War II. (3)
The following additional personnel have been identified with the GGO:
Abramova, Ye. I. (1)
A1'bov, N. V. (2)
Balabuyev, A. G. (1)
Bork, N. I. (1)
Burgedorf, V. V. (1)
Dmitriyev, A. A. (1)
Laken, G. L. (1)
l0urskaya, V. P. (1)
Markov, D. V. (2)
Yakovlev, L. S. (3)
Central Forecasting Institute (TRIP)
The well-known Soviet hydrometeorologist G. R. Bregman died on 1 lhy 1949.
In tote early Part of World War II he wan chief of the Moscow Group of the GGI
e -ydrological Institute). He BUL nuently transferred to the Ts!P and
ea as deputy director until the end or 1947, when he returned to the GGI.(1)
The following additional personnel have been identified with the TsIP:
Piotrovich, V. V. (1)
Pogosyan, S. G. (1)
Polyakov, B. V. (1)
Shulyakovskiy, L. G. (1)
Tsinzerling, V. V. (2)
State Hydrological Institute ((oGI)
A session of the Scientific Council of the rGI was held from 7 to 11
February 1949 to discuss the results of the previous year's work.'
The opening report was given by V. V. Ukhsnov on new hydrological instru-
ments designed in the GGI during 1948. Ukhanov said that, since the war, in-
struments such as wind vanes, level recorders, and flow meters had been designed
in the GGI and put into mass production. In 1948, more complex instruments for
spec.alized use bad been under investigation: a remote-controlled water level
recorder for hydroelectric power stations, and a radio-controlled automatic in-
strument for hydrological measurements on lakes.
Ukhanov stated that working models of these instruments had been tested
in 1948 and their practicability confirmed. However, the solution of several
important problems in structural design would still take several years.
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flow. Rimmar bad worked on this problem in the Karelian Isthmus during 1948.
G. I. Shamov, Doctor of Technical Sciences, demonstrated with a chart
the alluvial distribution in rtln-off throughout the USS.. P. P. Kuz'minf
didate of Geographical Sciences, described the results of a st Ca-
diation balance of the snow cover under a forest canopy. 'udy oa dira_ min rectedthis study at the Valday Scientific-Research r gic ~ m
day Run-Off Station) during 1948. Hydrological Station (Val-
Reports were given by N. Ye. Kondrat'yev, Candidate of Technical Sciences,
on the problem of wave transformation in shallow water, and by V. A. Rymaha,
Candidate of Technical Sciences, on his new dielectric method of measuring the
humidity of snow and soil. M. P. Raspopov dl,eussed the regional division of
subsurface waters in the European USSR as a basis for the study of subsurface
flow into rivers.
V. G. Andreyanov, Candidate of Technical Sciences, reported on a n..- method
of assessing water resources which had achieved good results in an evaluation
of the hydroelectric power resources of one of the rayons in Len Oblast.
G. A. Alekaeyev, Candidate of Technical Sciences, discussed the st~atiisstical lawn
of rain precipitatiou in the Central Black Earth Region, and P. P. Voronkov gave
a lecture on the hydrochemical regime of the Rybinsk reservoir.
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No further organizational information was given at this session.
were an follllows the 1949 - 1950 work program for the GGI, as given in Source 1,
a. In addition to current work on the investigation of the hydrolog-
ical cy.:le, the GGI planned to initiate a project for improving hydrological
forecasts and to introduce:
T? N. Kochukova spoke on the publication of hydrological
G. M. Rimmar d
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(1)
A method for basic forecasting of the debacle of Siberian
rivers.
(2)
A method for basic forecasting of the freezing of Siberian
(3) A method for forecasting the volume and maximum levels of
spring floods in the larger Siberian rivers.
b. The GGI planned to advance by one month the completion date of the
following projects: ) Work on the Council oflMinisters USSthe R and thological e TsK Vgp b) calling plan established of forest protective belts, the introduction of crop rotatiofor n,thand establishment eonstruc-
tion of ponds and reservoirs for maintenance of good harvests in the steppe and
forest-steppe regions of the European USSR. For the GGI, this would involve
the development of a method for calculating surface evaporation from ponds and
reservoirs, and the production of hydrological descriptions of rivers inter-
secting 'fate forest protective belts.
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(2) Work on the provision of information on the basic hydrolog-
ical characteristics of the northwest economic region for use by industrial
and planning organizations.
(3) Work on the evaluation of 2,200 pages of hydrological year_
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GGI planned to support the 1949 program with the following additional projects:
(1) Scientists of the; GGI would give not -ens than 30 lectures
and reports at administrations of the GbS on the subject of organizing and
carrying out hydrological studies, new techniques in hydrological measurements,
and new achievements in hydrological science.
(2) The GGI would establish a systematic standard for operation
of the hydrologic&. network and would organize a series of bulletins on opera-
tional procedures for administrations of the G)S.
(3) The GOI would send advance copies of studies made in the
hydrometeorological network to administrations of the Gl' , instead of waiting
for publication.
(4) The GGI would publish and transmit to administrations of the
GM descriptions-^d operating handbooks for all new hydrological instruments
introduced, or a>>out to be introduced, into the hydrometeorological network.
(5) The GGI would provide unlimited facilities for. the advanced
training of engineering and technical personnel of administrations of the G.
(6) The GGI would call a technical conference in conjunction with
plants of the GNS to improve the production quality of hydrological instruments.
It would also provide for not less than 25 special consultations on instrument-
building matters between scientists of the GGI and representatives of plants of
the GIB.
d. In the matter of cooperating with planning, construction, and iu-
duatrial organizations in Leningrad and Leningrad Oblast, the following projects
were set up for 1949:
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commissions n hydrological and ewatnot less than er-resources 8c0a?consultave culations. and ad-
visory (2) The GGI would set up a seminar to enable engineers and tech-
nicians to study new methods of making hydrological calculations.
(3) The GGI would give practical assistance to organizations of
Lenenergo (Leningrad Regional Electric Power Administration) in the installation
of the new GGI automatic signal indicator fo:. ice formation on internal water-
ways and the new GGI water level and pressure indicators.
(4) The GGI would establish for Sosnovskiy Rayon of Leningrad
Oblast (subordinate to Vasilevskiy Ostrov Rayon) a plan for utilizing the water
resources of the rayon for rural electrification and water supply.(1)
No further information was given concerning the 1949 work plan of the GGI.
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Uryvayev, --, director, 001 (11 Jrorably Uryvayev, V. A., listed as a
member of OOI in FDD Summary No 51.
Chebotai.ev, --, deputy director, GOI (1) probably Chebotarev, A. I.,
listed as a member of Got in FDD Suseary, No 51j
Protas'yev, --, secretary, Party Bureat., 0OI (1)
Semenoy-, --, chairman, Local flart17 Committee, QOI (1)
Danovich, V. A. (1)
Klibashev, K. P. (1)
Kozlyaninov, B. V. (1)
Znamenskaya, Ye. M. (2)
The following additional personnel have been identified with the I.
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Central Aerological Observatory (TsAO)
Krichak, 0. O., has been identified with the TaAO.(2)
State Oceanographic Institute (ruO1A)
The following additional personnel were identified with the GOIN in
source I;
Golubchik, Ya. L.
Khanaychenko, N. K.
Kharitonov, D. 0. (also in source 2)
Khmyznikova, V. L.
Kiselev, I. A.
Kitkin, P. A.
Lineykin, P. S.
Maiyukova, A. A.
Mesrenov, I. V.
Preobrazhenskiy, Yu. V.
Samoylenko, V. S.
Shcherbak, S. Ya.
Sorkin, I. M.
Suvorr ?r, I. P.
-Tiron, K. D.
Titov, L. P.
Trofimov, A. V.
Tsurikov, V. L.
Urhakov, P. V.
Vodyanitskiy, V. A.
Scientific Research Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism (NIIZN)
Pudovskiy, I. My has been identified with the NIIZM (1)
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Scientific Research Institute of
teorolo cal Instrument Build (piI6I)
~a ai+dress or this institute was given as:
Moscow-(3) U1. Pavllka lbrozova, 12,
During 1949, a model of a new type of wave recorder designed by V. A.
Rymsha was tested at the NIIGI.(2) Also in 1948, P. g. Nikolayev of the NIIGI
worked on the development of improved filament batteries for radiosondea.(3)
Tbilisi Geophysics Observatory
The Tbilisi Geophysics Observatory held a Scientific Session frog 14 to 18
May 1948. Sixteen reports were read representing almost all types of scientific.
research work undertaken by the observatcry.(1)
The following members of the observatory were identified in source 1, to-
gether with the fields in which they work:
Nodia, N. Z., Dr Phys-Math Sci. Nagnetology
Katsiashvilli, N. A., chief of Nagnetology Division
Mosidze, Sh. V., Senior Scientific Associate. Aetinometry
Chirakadze, G. I., Cand Geog Sci. Actinametry
Balabuyev, A. 0., Dr Pbys-Math Sci. Climatology
Sulakvelidze, G. K., Cand Pbys-Nsth Sci. Climatology
Kordzakhiya, N. 0., Cand Phys-Math Sci. Climatology
Porchkhidze, D. L., Cana Geog Sci. Climatology
Dvali, Ye. R., chief of Atmospheric Electricity Division
Gunia, S. U., Cand Phys-Math Sci. Synoptic meteorology
Lominadze, V. P., Cand Phys-Math Sci. Synoptic meteorology
Papinashvili, K. I., Cand Pays-Math Sci. Synoptic meteorology
iney'ehhviG , N., N., Cand Phya-Math Scl. Synoptic meteorology
e, , Engr. Hydrology
Vladlmirov, dz
L. A. Cand Geog Sci. Hydrology
Svandize, V. F. Cand Agric Sci. Agrohydrometeorology.(1)
Kiev Geophvsics Ube rvato (x100)
Nazarov, V. A., was identified as director of the KNIGO.(2)
der zhan Local Administration of the OLS
The Azerbaydzhan Local Administration was Beverly criticized by 0. N.
Borsuk for poor organization and administration.(2)
Ukrainian Local Administration of the GAS
Tests on improved filament batteries for radiosondes, under development
at the NIIGI, were being carried out during 1949 at many points in the radio-
sonde network of the Ukrainian Local Administration, particularly at Poltava. (3)
SOURCES
1. Meteorologiya 1 Gidrologiya, No 1, 1949
2. Ibid., No 2, 1949
3. Ibid., No 3, 1949
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