ACTIVITIES OF ALL-UNION GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY IN 1952

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ACTIVITIES OF ALL-UNION GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIhTY IN 152
Izveatiy~a Vseso znoRo
Geo raficheskogo Obshchestva
Vol 5, No , pp 20_~
Leningrad, Nov/Dec 1953
The scientific activity of the Al'1-Union Geographical Society in 1952 was
in seer 'ance with the Five-Year Plan of the USSR and resolutions of the 19th
Congress of the CFSU.
13 commissions, handothetLibrarysCouncil? cAlllofethese wcrkedmintaccordanceiye),
with the plan confirmed by the Learned Council of the society, mainly in con-
nection with hydrotechnical constructions. The society participated in two
large scientific sessions, organized jointly with the Geographtc Faculty of
Leair. rad University and with the Leningrad Depe tment of the All-Union Scientific
and technical Society of Mining ~Engineera).
Also, in 195?, +tie ~~cic+y ,gold iy general conferences of society members,
3 meetings of the scientific councils, 44 meetings of the presidium, and 124
meetings of the committees, departments, and commissions, at which a total of
153 scientific reports were heard.
A total of 191 lectures (146 by visiting lecturers) were given to a total
audience of 23,000 persons in the Yu. M. Shokal'skiy lecture room. The society's
phenological network was increased to 532 correspondentG. Two new organizations,
the Commission on Heliogeophysics and the Library Council, were especially
active.
The Department of Economic Geography, with other departments and commissions,
held a meeting to discuss the topic "Directives of the 19th Congress of the CPSU."
The most active units in 1952 were the Cartographic, Soil, and Aerial Photog-
raphy Commissions and the Departments of Economic Geography, Ethnography, Physical
Geography, and History of Geographical Sciences.
The Depar+,ments of Biogeography, the Phonological Commissions, the Commission
for the Study of the History and Development of USSR Cities, and the Commission
on Water Resources were 1E69 active. The Commission on Water and Forests did
not function in 1952.
General Conferences
The first general conference uas devoted to the 125th anniversary of the
birth of P. P. Semenov-Tyan-Shanskiy; the conference heard renort.s by S. V. Kalesnik
("Travels oP P. p. Semenov in tha Tyan Shan Mountains") and 0. A. Konstantinov
("P. Y. Semenov's Role in Economic Geography"). The second conference heard a
report by A. F. Laktionov ("G. Ya. Sedov, Explorer"). The third heard Academician
D. V. Nalivkln report on "Works of I. V. Mushketov." The fourth heard a report
by Academician Ye. N. Pavlovskiy, the president of the Society, on the resolutions
of the 19th Congress? of the CPS?T.
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Meetings of Scientific Counest
At the first meeting, the council took thr fellow'{^^
sa organizatiouai committee or -tee actions: approval of
se3sion of the Geographical Soci~tmitgt)roval.ofaaeprospectivesplantof operations
to be followed by the de a y, pp
Kazakh Affiliate and thepSakhaelin and OutersBaykal Dlaisions~Thencoux,cil
considered plans for new regulations governing the society. Also, the council
included Penza Oblast and the Moscow Affiliate, Mordov ASSR, into its sphex?e
of activities.
At the second meeting, Academician Ye. N. Pavlcvskiy was electe3 president
of the society, and I. P. Gerasimov, Corresponding Member, Academy of Sciences
USSR, and Prof S. V. Kalesnik were elected vice-presidents.
The third meeting selected the scientific secretary of the society and
the editorial staff of the periodical Izvesti Vseso
Obahchestva. The account of the society s activitiesyinn1951Gwasrdiscueskogc
The council confirmed the Latvian Affiliate of the society.
Meetings of Presidium
The presidium of the society met xeekly in 1952 (excert in July and August),
for a total of 44 meetings, to direct the operations of the society. It also
considered the following matters: petitions of local council and party organ-
izations concerning confirmation of affiliates or departments ~f the society;
plans for the publication of the works of the departments and cou~issions and '
of members of the society; participation of the society in ,joint sessions with
other societies or organizations; prospective plans for ,:he operation of the
ceatrel organization,'affiliates, and divisions (otdel) of the society; the
accounts of operations turned in by the various presidents and scientific
secretaries of the affiliates and divisions (e. g., of the Amur Affiliate, and
Crimean'and Stalingrad Division;); reports i'ram active members of the society
acquainted with the operations of various affiliates and divisicns of the
society (e. g.., the Uzbek gffiliste, and the Kharkov, ;;rasnoyarsk, and East
Siberian Divisions); reports on the operation of the Committee for the Dissem-
ination of Geographic Knowledge, and other units of the centx?al organization.
Department of Physical Geo aphv
The president of the depax?tment is Prof S. V. Obruchev; the secretary,
A. N. Smesov. About half the department reports in 1952 were delivered at ,Joint
sessions. Also, the department gave consultations and lectures on the physico-
Beographical sciences.
"Variationoinothe Representationsiofnthe StructuretofnthenTerrestrial Globehkov,
From the 17th Century to the Present" (,]ointly with the Commission on Geomorphology
and Paleogeogrnphy); N. V. Krylov, "principles Governing the Organization and
Procedures for Complex Geographical Investigations Into the Experiences Gained
by the. Ladoga Expedition of the Institu~e of Geography, Leningrad State University"
(,jointly with the Department of Economic Geography); V. V. Lamakin, "Movement
Paleoke ~aykhl's Shores" (,jointly with the Commission on Geomorphology and
g B p y); V. V. Lamakin, Why Some Rivera Meander and Others Break up
into Channels" (,jointly with the Commission on date Resources); A. D. Gozhev,
Present Tasks in Connection'lith Physical Problzms;" P. I. Poleva, ''Radiological
Methods for Determining the Age of Sixbstances of Biological Origin;? Ye. A. Rum_
''""" ~~r''">r'~~~~air~l llatin~ of Archeological Monuments and Bi~xogical Objects,
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 Fossil and Modern" (jointly with the Geochronological Commission); and Z, A,
Svaricheskaya, "Basic Problems in the Geomor
with the Commissi
hol
p
ogy of Kazakhstan"
on on Geomorphology and paleogeogra h
P y) (,Jointly
Cc,-uwiasion of Geomorpho;.~~, and Paleogeography
President: N. r1, Sokolov; secretary: S F. Biske. The commission
held no dependent meetings of its own in 1952; it conr'c~ted its operations within
ite department and participated in !'our meetings of other commissions.
Meteorological Commission
Honorary chairman; V. yu. Vize, Corresponding Member, Academy of
Sciences USSR; deputy chairman: prof 0. A. Drozdov; secretar
This commission was more active in 19;2 than in 1951. Its main reports were
those of 0.. A. Drozdov and A. N. Lebedev on modern climatolo y L~ A. Vitel's.
discussion of the book Izmeni n
Sukhikh Oblast y Klim~ty v Sv g3', and the
SSSR (Variations in Climate-~ is Pianos' preobrazovani
Transform the Nature of the Arid Regions of in Connection With the PLanytoNutur
It held 16 meetings, 7 of the the USSR), edited b
were given? L. A. Vitel's m with other commiasiuns. The fo1 0~ p. P?gosyan.
Circulation;" g, A , "The Calendar Peculiarities of the !~ ng reports
Use of Results of Climatoloikova, "Climates of Reclaimed Regions,moanderic
in the Duration of the gical Investigationsj" I. A. Gol'tsber Practical
Afforestation Frostless Period Under the I.Zi'luence of Fo~es? Protective
New Data on the Wa A" Drozdov, "Status and Tar;~s o1'
Drv Winds y)' ~ Cycle of Land," M.V, Zavarina M~ problem of the Nature of
(Sukhove ?. A. Vorortsov, 'Aerological Conditions of Arid Periods
Sn Stone Steppe (Kamennaya Step~1~~~ A, N. Lebedev
and A. M. Alpat'yev, "Agrometeorological Forecastin of
Cultivated plants." , "Discussions in Climatology "
B Times of Watering of
Hydrogeological Commission
Chairman: B. L. Lichkov; secretary; I. Ya, yermilov. The commission
held six ,Joint mee:ings, at which the following reports were
Bases for the Classification and Regionalization of L'nder
B L. Lichkov given: I. K. Zaytsev,
Lowlands"; and MChprapteYV~uVCS"ProblemoofhtheMoistuxed~o~~nofWt,~.erNear Caspian
Clayey part of the Nesr Caspian Lowlands."
Cycle in the Nor?hern
Commission of Water Resources
Chairman; M. y, Ma1,,~hev; secretary: G. V. ~opst.in. The commission
held 1? meetings, at -.rhich the following reports were given:
Status of the Channels and Small Rivers of Isnin rad";
Lopatin M? I. Bogdanov,
~ "Sunmiary of the All-Union Conference on River-Bed ProBesse~and G. V.
G. V. Lopatin V. Ye.
Lyubinov, "Methods of Field Operations in the Investigation of Alluvial Detritus";
Lake Ba ' Analysis of Data on the Many-year Fluctuations of the Level of
ykal" and "plan for the Exploitation of the Western Part of the Amu-
Darya River Delta"; F. Z. Byd1n, "Preliminary F.ccount of the Maximum Second
Tributary Supply of Water Into the Kakhov Rese,voir Accordin to a
Lamaktn g New Method"
and "Calculation of the Yearly Runoff ;,f Water Without Intermediate Observations";
V. V. , "Why Some Rivers Meander and Others Break U
the Water Re ime"; P Into Channels";
A, Ys. Bezrukova, "Solar Activity, General Circulation of the Atmosphere, and
Dne r- g I? Z? Samburenko "Variations in the Saline Re
p Bug Estuary in Connection With the
Hydroelectric Power Plant"? Enclosure of the Water ofitheof the
the Caspian and Solar Activitnd M. S. Eygenson, "Fluctuations in the LeKekho~
works of itis members; in particularh Dc V~1Lopatinls monolished
of USSR Rivers," , in 1y52, several
in the Zapiski (Notes) of the societ ~aPh "Alluvial Detritus
y (New Series, Vol 14).
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Phenological Commission
Chairman: A. I. Rudenko, secretary; N. N. Loktev. The commission
heard two reports in 1052: ye ..
Processes of Growth and DevelopmentuofyPlants"~nandlYe~. NS BeasonovaionStudyhof
the Geographic Variability of the Onset of the Basic Phases in the Development
phenologicaldob~ects in thecperiode1871a1952tiandyisrpreparing to publ8sh ^The
Seasonal Development of Nature in Leningrad and its Environs."
Commission for High-Mountain Investigations
Chairman: Prof V. S. Klupt; secretary: V. B. Ivanov. The commission
held two meetings, which heard two reports, one on the alpine conquest of the
Dombay Region of the North Caucasus, and the other on photography under high-
mountain conditions. The commission has appealed ?,y letter to alpine camps to
organize glaciological observations by alpine forces at alpine base camps.
Geochronological Commission
Chairman: Prof A. N. Krishtofovich; secretary: V. A. Petrov. 'No
account was presented.
commission on HelioReonhysirs
Chairman; V. Yu. Vize, Corresponding Member, Academy of Sciences USSR;
secretary: L. A. Vitel's. At the first organitational meeting, on 8 February
1952, members of the commission's office (byuro` were chosea, as follows:.
V. Yu. Vize,?L. A. Vitel's, substitute chairmen M. S. Eygenson and A. V. Shnitnikov,
and S. P. Khromov and A. I. Dzens-Litovskiy. Later, another member was elected,
B. M. Rubashov. Eight point meetings were held in 1952, at which future activities
and the 1952 plans of the commission were discussed. The follnw;ng reports were
heard: M.. S. Eygenson, "Weather Forecasting and Solar Acti?~ity~" F. I. Bydin,
'Requisites in Planning the Kakhov Hydroelectric Power Plantj " A. Ya. Bezrukova,
"Solar Activity, General Circulation of thr, Atmosphere, and the Wster Regimej"
M. S. Eygenson, ^Annusl Course of the Anomalies of Atmospheric Precipitation,
and Solar Activ~ity~'~ M. S. Eygenson, "Cer+,aln Solar and Geophysical Cycles";
L. A. Vitel's, Solar Activity, Magnetic Disturbances, ac-d Circulation of the
Atmosphere (Survey of the Latest Literature)"; M. S. Eygenson "Variations of
the Solar Constant, the Sun's Corpusculsr Activity, and Geophysical Phenomena";
0. V. Dobrovol'skiy, "Connection of Physical Phenomena in Comets With Solar qc-
tivi?y and the Significance of This Connection"; and p. V. Shnitnikov, "pars-
ability of N.ountain Glaciation in Eurasia in the Fost-Glacial Epoch and the
Problem oP Its Astronomical Nature."
In May 1952, commission members, fit. S. Eygenson, L. A. Vitel's.
A~ Ya. Aezrukova, and A. V. Shnitnikov participated in,the conference on the
problems of the super long-range forecasting of the level of the Caspian,
organised by the Institute of Oceanology, Academy of Sciences USSR. Their
reports will be published in the work, (trudy) cf this conference (soveshchaniye).
During 1952, Prof M. S. Eygenson also gave a series of reports nn hc'iogeophysics
in various institutes and oro .-.izatious in Leningrad and Moscow, to acquaint
scientists of mixed specialties with tiie current status oi' the Sun-Earth problem.
The .first issue of the works of the commission (trudy kommissi) is in printing.
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Depart_ ~me~t of I.ygthematical Geography and Cartography
The president of the department is N. G. Kell', Corresponding Member, Academy
oP Sciec.-es USSR; the secretary is B. I. Nikiforov. Although the department held
nc meetings in 1952; rte twe c.,.,,,,i;siotrs continued their activities.
Cartographic Commission imeni Yu. M. Shokal'siciy
Chairman: Prof V. V. Kavrayskiy; secretary: I. B. Kostrits. The
commissicn hell six meetings in 1952, at which 11 reports were heard. The
directors and rank-and-file workers of Leningrad cartographic institutions
and enterprises and the professorial and teaching staff of Leningrad State
University and of pedagogic institutes actively participated in ttie work of
the rommissions.
The work of the ecrentssicn proceeded according to the plan ecnfirmed
at a session of the c~cuuission's office. The follcwing reports were heard at
meetings of the commission: A. N. Larionova, "present Status of the Problem
of the Representation cf Underwater itelief on Geographical Charts"; F. A.
Shibanov, "Chenakal's Book Ocherki Istorii Russko Astronomii (!outline of the
History of Russiar. Astroroay an3 "Contribution of Russian Geophysics to *,he
Determination of ti=e Figure sn3 Dimensions of Lhe Earth"
Vsesoyirznogo Geogratlche?^r_;;.: O?shchestva, No 1~ 1 (published in Zzvestiya
Account of the Operations ~;-_ the ~ 553); V. V. Kr'avrayskiy,
for 1952" and "Charts of :.,- Si.,;-testtDistancPSCF omsalFixed Pointa(Slopinglan
Uniform-ir._erval Azlmuthai Pro,Jecticn of s Spheroid)"; S. L. Berg, "Transcription
of Geographical Names in Connection With the Work of the Main Editing of the
Maritime Atlas (Morskoy Atlas)"; F. V. Korshenko, "Certain Problems in the
Rendering of Forciga-LanT:age Geographical Names on Russian Maps"; A. A. pa?~lcv,
The Place of Cartography Among the Geographical Sciences"; V. I. Vorob'y~v,
"General Principles Governing the Editorial Work in the Compilation of the.
Malts of Volume I oP the Maritime Atlas"; and V. A. Br:liant, "preliminary
Discussion of ::he Library Classification of the State Library imeni Lenin,
Division of Geological. and Geographical Sciences, Parts G-1 and G-2."
Commission on Aerial Photography
Chaiivuin: N. G. Kell'; secretary: G. G. 5amcylovich. In 1952, the
commission held seven meetings, at which representatives of 11-20 organizations
were present. Phe following retorts were heard: Ye. A. Galkina, Stalin Prize
winner, "Aerial Methods for the Study of Swamps"; V. N. Danilov, "Aerial Survey
of the Woody Vegetation 'n tha Eone of the Turkmen Cana;"; Eng M. P. Danichev,
"Experiences Gained in the Aerial Survey of Forests by Means of Aerial
Photographs"; L. N. Kell' and S. V. Chistyakov, "Experiences Gained in the
Use oP Stereotopographic Photography on a Large Scale"; A. V. G1agolev,
"Stereophotographic Scheme and its Use in Projective-Exploratory Operations";
and P. ya. Rayzer, "History of the Development of Aerial Methods."
One meeting was devoted to the preparation of cadres, at which reports
were given by ye, ya. Kilikovskaya, from Leningrad State University; L. N. Kell',
from the Mining Institute; D. M. Kudritskiy, from the Hydrometeorological
Institute; and G. G. Samoylovich, from the Forest Technical Academy.
Department of Biogeograohv
The president of the depsrtm~nt 1s Prof A. N. Goradkov; substitutes are
Professors A. A. K~rcturgin and A. N. Svetovidov; the secretary is G. p. Ilovikov.
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president and the absence VoP~somerofwits office members efromtLeningrads oSecretary
G. A. Ncvikov resigned from the department. 'The department held Pour ~cint
sessiors'in 1952 with a total of six reports: A. A. Korchagin "Beta
igations by the Crimean ''..:.'pedition in the Summer of 1951 in the Crimean~Stevest-
N. N. Dzens-Litovskaya, "peculiarities oP Soil Formation in the Crimean Ste
V? D. Lopatin ppes";
"Relation of Vegetation to Moisture"; A. K. Rozhdestvenskiy,ppea";
"Investigati,ona of Soviet Paleontologists in Central Asia"; p, N. Bogdanov,
"The Deep-Root System and Irrigation in the Light of Problems on the Trans-
formation oP Nature"; A. A. Yunatov, "Across the Gobi Ae:,ert of Mongolia"; and
A? G'. Gayel', "APforestation of the Urda Sands
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.
Two couunissions are included in the department:
Soil Commission
commission hold nine meetinFS,~Vwhich~heardellrreports,,byBthenfol oy~ing:Thvu. A.
OPranitskiy, p. A. Zavalishin, I. M. Krivonoso
Sama
lo
y
v, L. N. Alek.sandrova, I. I.
v, M. F. Kornilov, A. A. Nemchinov, I. V. Lartn a r, .. __ ___
Zhirmunskiv. nnA tr ~ ...
Commission of Waters and Forests
[No Purther information given)
Department of the Hisi;orv of r'
eographical set
V
The president of the department is Prof A.
Goryachiy.
I. Andreyev; the secretary F, ye,
"the department held 11
meetings in 1952, with reports by V. A. Briliant,
A. I? Andreyev, M. I. Belov, N. F. Litke, N. G. S2:printsin, and P. Ya, Lyarskiy.
Commi
i
ss
on for the Study of the History and Development, of USSR Cities
Chainnant Prof A. V. Predtechenskiy; secretary; R. L. Zolotnitskaya
~'he commission held three meetings in 1912. wish ,.
L. M .m......-,..._ ~..,...._ t__ ... - -
De artment of Ethnography
The president "of the department is Prof N. N. Stepsnov; the secretary, N. N.
Nikitina. 'i 1952, the department concentrated on the study of the socir~l3stic
culture of the peoples of the USSR. Repc+rts were given by M. V. Kaplan, N. N.
Nikitina, D. I. Lavrov (associate of the Institute of Et.}~nography), N. 14.
Kovyazin (Leningrad State Un_versity), L. P. Potapov (Institute of Eth~oBraphy),
and~N. N: Stepaaov.
Department of Economic Geography
The president of the department is Prof U. A. Konstantinov; the secretary,
L. P. A1`tman. In 1952, the department edited articles for the second edition
of the Hol'shaya Sovetskaya Entsiklopediva
held ten mee*.. (Great Soviet Encyclopedia). It
.ngs, at which the following reports were heard: A. A. Andreyev;
"Five-Year Development of i.he Pe?:hor [Coal) Basin"; B. D. Bobok, "Development
of Crimean Agriculture"; L. G. Chertov, "Soviet GevgraPhY" (in connection with
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N. V. Krylov ``r~rc az the meeting of the organizational committee);
Znvestigations1oaith6Ples of Organization and Procedures for Complex Geographical
GeoKraphy, Leningrad State University"e Ladoga Expedition of the Institute of
Six-Year plan Por the n.,.el..____, ' V. S. K'upt, "Industrial Re~ion_ in `ha
~r~+=+,~ of Fcland"; and S. D. Gitlilskiy, "Economic
ueography of the Belgian ^ongo."
Department of School Geo raphv
The president of tl~e department is A. V. Darinskiy; the secretary,
Kotsyubinskiy. In 1952, reports were given by B, N. Semevskiy, A. D. Gozhev,
E? V. Knobelsdorf, the president, and the secretary.
committee for Assistanr_e to the Transformation of Nature
The president of the committee is F. I. Bydin; the secretary A. V. Shnitnikcv.
In 1952, the committee's main efforts were directed toward (1) organization snd
delivery of reports by itself and Jointly with departments and commissions of
the society and (2) preparation for printing, of salected works of the society's
members anc nonmembers, reported on at the meetings of the society. The
^ommittee also prepareu ..rticles fur the second symposium of the works of the
:ommittee (~bornik trudov komiteta). The 1853 xork of the committee will be
connected with the new ls.rge hydroelectric pcwer plants and with conducting
sessions cn the problem of the conquest of the Karakum and the Caspian Lowland.
Committee for +,he Dissemination oP Geo a hicsl Krowled e
The president of the conmiittee is i. Ye. Rodin; the lecture-room head is
M. I. Kharitonnva. The committee offered 11 series of lectures, totaling $$,
heard by an audience of 23,000 persons.
The head of the library is T. A. Sitnikova. On 1 January 1953, the library
possessed 339,000 bibliographic units. In 1g52, it received 3,6gg units, consisting
of 1,99b books and brochures, 1,703 periodicals, and 31 maps, for a total of
17,141 pages.
Scientific Archive's
T. S. Filonovich is in charge of the Scientific Archives.
Publishing Activities
The year 1952 was the 84th year of publication of the society's periodical
Izvesti Vsesoyuanogo Geograficheskog Obshchestva
it contained 11 articles and notes, se~.ected frcm more than~230 submitteds~
The irregular publications of the society are: Zapiski Vsesovu~
G=ograficheskogo Otahchestva (Notes of the All-Union Geo pogo
Ceograf`ch~sgi Sbornik Geographical S osium 9Bz'aphical Society) and
contained G. V. Lopatia's a~nograph "Alluvial Detrituslof2USSRCRive~rs"-(24~7 lq'
Pages, edited by Prof L. K. Davydov, printed by Geogrifiz). The Ceograficheskiv
Sbornik appeared for the first time in 1952; it was devoted to g?^~orphology
and paleogeography.
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II. AFFILIATES OF THE SOCIETY
The folloxing is a list of affiliates o" the society; x!th ,.o ..
and othez? data, --.. .. officers
1. Azerbaydzhan Affiliate (founded 1939 in Baku)
President: M. A. Ka.=:,c;,~y; secretary; B. q, pntonov. No of members; 131
2? Armehian Affiliate {founded 1935 in Yerevan)
President: K. N. Pa:fengol'ts; substitute: S. S. Mkrtchyan; secretary:
I. S. Stepanyan. Nu of members: 146 in Yerevan; 14 in Leninakan (organized 1947;
president: G. K. Gabriyelyan; secretary; S. A. Pilotyan).
3? Georgian Affiliate (founded 1,24 in Tbilisi)
President: A. N. Dzhavakhishvili; secretary; A. F. Aslaniskashvili.
Ir. 1952, the affiliate consisted of the folloxing divisions (otdel): Scientific
Research Division (Otdel), xhich, in turn, possesses a Section (Sektsiya) of
Physical Geography, a Section of Economic Geogrsph;;, snd a Section of Cartography;
Teachers-Procedural Division, xhich contains a Sccticn of School-Geographical
Education, etc.; Division for Dissemination of Geographical Knoxledgc; Kutay
Division Mounded 1951; chairman: V. S. Devdariani, secretary: T. S. Guntsadze);
Sukhumi Diviszon (founded 1951; chairman; N. Matureli, secretary; K. G. Mgeladze);
Batum Division (founded 1951; chairman: N. I. Nizharadze; secretary: I, p,
Dzhibladze); Goriy Division (founded 1951; chairman: T. A. Sikharulidze,
secretary: V. G. Davidov).
No of members: 697 (150 in Batum, 54 in Suknuwi, and 272 in Kutay. No
data on the others)-
4. Kazakhstan Affiliate (founded 1945 in Alma-Ata
President: I. N. Bezsonov; secretary; A. G, popolzin; 75 active members.
5? Karelo-Finnish Affiliate (founded 1945 in Petrozsvodsk)
President; V. 3. Sladkevich; secretary: V. V. Pokrovskiy. No further
account.
6. Kirgiz Afflliate (founded :947 in Fzunze)
President: B. A. Lukin; secretary: M. M. Karr.tayev.
7? Komi Afflliate (founded 1948 in Syktyvkar)
President: N. I. Shi:.hkin; secretary: V. V. Tur'yeva; 116 members.
8. Latvian Affiliate (founded 1952 in Riga)
In process of organization.
9? Mary Afflliate (founded 1948 in Yoshkar-ola)
No account given.
10. Moscox Affiliate (founded 1046 in Moscox)
President; I. D. Papanin; secretary; B. P. Ur1ov; 821 members.
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11. Amur Affiliate (founde3 1894 in Khabarovsk)
President: A. y, Maslow; secretary; p F. Shamrey; 126 members; 33
Juridical members.
12. Primorskiy (maritime) Affiliate (founded 1894 in Vlndivostck)
President: D. N. ICuz'min; secretary: N. A. Navindovskiy; 190 members.
13? Turkmen Affiliate (founded 1945 in Ashkhabsd)
President: M. p. Petrov, secretary: A. G. BabayPV; 67 members.
14. Ukrzinian pfPillate (Pounded 1948 i.n Kiev)
President of the organizational committee; K, p? pyartli; secretary;
Yu. K. Kulik. In 1952, the affiliate held point meetings with the Geographical
Faculty of Kiev State University and with the Scientific Research Institute of
Geography [not further identified].
15? Uzbek Affiliate (Pounded 1896 in Tashkent)
No account given.
16. Ya}-,itsk Affiliate (founded in 1948 ir. Yakutsk)
President: D. Z. Shastl;o; secretary: A. S. Kashirtsev. No further
account giver,,
III. DIVISIONS (DI'DEL) OF THE SOCIETY
The following is a list of the divisions of the society, with names of
officers and other data.
1. Voronezh Division (founded 1948 in Voronezh)
President: ~. T. Grishin; secrctar
1 January 1953? Y~ I. N. Yezhov; 42 members as of
2.
East-Siberian Division (founded 1851 in Irkutsk)
3?
Fresident; P. P. Silinskiy; secretary: p, p, Khoreshilt2?; 120 members.
Gor'kiy Division (founded 1947 in Cor'kiy)
4?
President: N. p. Borisoglebskiy; secretary: I. K. O:fs::_?.;
~~ aemters.
Outer Baykal Division (founded 1894
in Chita)
5?
Presl3~nt; Ye. D. Petryayev; secretary: N. S. Tyazhelov; 25
West-Kazakhstan Division (founded 1946 in Ural'sk)
members.
6?
President: V. V. Ivanov; secretary: N. Ye. Revnivykh; 4g mem
Kazan' Division (..?.ounded 1947 in Kazan')
bers.
President: V. N. Sementovskiy; secretary: V. V. Batyr~ 46 m
embers.
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7? Kalinin Division (f
ounded 1946 in Kalinin)
P
resident; M. M. Bocharov; secretary; V. I. Mayevskiy
.
8? Kre.snovarA4 nl..,_.
-'- ~-?+oion (rounded 1901 in Krasnoyarsk)
Presid
ent: p. V, podlesnyy; secretary; B. G. Tu?ochkin.
9? Crim
ean Division (founded 1945 in Simferopol')
Presid
ent: N. A. Troitskiy; secretar
live in Simfero
'
pol
)
y; V. P. Cusev;
91 members (?$
10. Kuybyshev Division (founded 1946 in Kuybyshev)
members.
President: T. A. Aleksandrova; secretary: V. A. Malakhovski
Y; 35
11. Kyakhta Division (founded 1894 in Kyakhta)
members.
President: A. N, Leont'yev' secretary; R. F. Tugutov; 13 active
12?
Lvov Division (founded 1947 in Lvov)
P
13?
resident; q. T. Vashchenko; secretary; M. S. Andrianov; 21 members.
Murmansk Division (founded 1947 is Kirovsk)
P
14.
resident; A. V. Sidorenko; secretary; I. K. Tikhomirov; 32 members.
Novosibirsk Division (founded 1946 in Novosibirsk)
Presid
'
15?
ent;.
D. I. ADramovich; secretary; A. S, Kharchenko; 82 members.
Omsk Division (funded 187? in Omsk)
these fr
omrotherncitiea)D Kizyurin; secretary: S. R. Laptev; 79 members
(3 of
16. Saratov Division {fouunded 1940 in Saratov)
President: D. I. Maslenikov; secretary: V. I. Gortsev; 39 members.
17? Sakhalin Division (founded 1952 in Yuzhno-Sakhalinak)
No account submitted.
18? North Division (Severnyy Otdel) (founded 1944 in Arkhangelsk)
President: G. Ya. Nallvayko; secretary; K. P. Gawp; 35 members.
19? North-Caucasus Division (founded 194? in Rostov-on-Don
President: D. G. Panov; secretar )
given. Y? A. F. Samokhin. No further account
~. Stalingrad Division (founded 1950 in Stalingrad
)
President: I. I. Panin; secretary: T. P. Fedorchenko; 18 members.
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21. Tambov Division (founded ]951 in Tambov)
President: N. V. Tarasevich; 35 members.
2'?? Tomsk Division (!'~?raged o
194 in Tomsk)
President: N. A. Naginskiy; secretary; B. C. Ioganzea. No further
account given.
23? Ural ]ivision (founded 1946 in Sverdlovsk)
Presidents A. N. Ivnnov; secretary: G. Ye. Tarasevich; 119 members.
24? Kharkov Division (founded 1947 in Kharkov)
President: N. I. Dmitriyev; secretary; M. A. Demchenko; 68 members.
25. Chelyabinsk Division (founded 1944 in Chelyabinsk)
President; V. S. Startaev; secretary: N. P. Vasil'yev. No further
account given.
26? Chernovtsy Division (founded 1948 in Chernovtsy)
President: S. q, Kovalevskiy; secretary; B. M. Ivanov. 38 members.
27. Chkalov Division (founded 1947 in Cnkalov; knoc~n earlier as Orenburg
Division, in existence since 1868)
President: A. S. Khomentovskiy; secretary: A. M. Vasil'yeva, No
further account given.
28? Yaroslavl Division (founded 1951 in Yaroslavl)
President: q. B. Ditmar; 27 members, Who Gave more than 100 reports
and lectures during 1952 in various organizations in and near Yaroslavl.
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