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CONSIDERABLE progress has been made in the U.S.S.R. in the study of lakes and inland seas, especially since 1928, at which date several new limno-logical stations and institutes were founded and a new method of complex study inaugurated. The essentials of this method consist in team-work combining the study of hydrology, hydrobiology, hydrogeology and hydrochemistry. A short report by L. S. Berg (Bull. Acad. Sci. UBSS., Sér. Géol., No. 1, 54 ; 1945) presents a general review of the work done since 1928, while D. N. Taliev (ibid., 79) presents a report on the activity of the Baikal Limnological Station, and N. M. Strakhov (ibid., 61) discusses the significance of lake and lagoon deposits in the study of processes of sedimentation. The Caspian Sea has been intensively studied by special expeditions, and the work on salt deposits of Kara-Bogaz, begun long ago, has been continued with great success. The salt deposits of Kara-Bogaz are of great interest from the point of view of pure science and have also great industrial value. A number of papers are devoted to the study of the variation of the level of the Caspian Sea during the last seven hundred years. The Aral Sea has also been studied by the Aral Fisheries Station and the Aral Hydrological Institute.
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TOMKEIEFF, S. LIMNOLOGY IN THE U. S. S. R. Nature 157, 239 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/157239a0
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