Russia

Conferences

• "Actual International Legal Problems of the Scientific Research and Rational Use of the World Ocean", September 1998, Moscow, Russia

Contact: Prof. Anatoly Kolodkin

President, Russian Association of the International Maritime Law

3a, B. Koptevsky pr., Moscow 125319, Russian Federation

Tel (7 095) 151 75 88/151 54 54; Fax (7 095) 152 09 16/152 36 51

• "Coastal Zone of the Internal Seas", September 1998, Gelendzhik, Russia

Contact: Dr. Valery Shcherbakov

Director, World Data Center "B" on Marine Geology and Geophysics

38 Krasnogvardeiskaya str., WDC-B MGG, Gelendzhik 353470, Russian Federation

Tel (7 095) 192 80 18/(7 86141) 24 582; Fax (7 095) 192 96 98/(7 86141) 24 491;

E-mail: wdcbmgg@glavnivc.msk.su; postmaster@cmdg.kuban.su

Training Course

• "Training Course on Oceanographic Data Management", second half of 1998, Obniusk, Russia

Contact: Dr. Nickolai Mikhailov

Director, National Oceanographic Data Center "B", RNIIGMI-WDC

6, Koroleva Street, Obniusk, Kaluga Region, Russian Federation

Tel (7 095) 255 21 94; Fax (7 095) 255 22 25

Cruises

• "Floating University Project" (Marine Geology and Geophysics of the Black, Mediterranean and Red Seas), June-August 1998, Post cruise meeting in Lisbon during EXPO’98

Contact: Dr. Mikhail Ivanov, Director of the Project

Vorobjery Gory, B-234, MGU, Geological Faculty, Moscow, Russian Federation

Tel/Fax (7 095) 939 49 17

Publications

• 5-volume Atlas "The World Ocean" (paper and CD-ROM versions)

To be published starting in 1998

Initiator: Head Department of Navigation and Oceanography, Ministry of Defence, Russian Federation

Co-ordinator: Admiral Anatoly Komaritzin

Chief of Head Department of Navigation and Oceanography

Ministry of Defence, Russian Federation

Tel (7 812) 213 72 29; Fax (7 812) 213 75 48

• 4-volume "History of the Russian Hydrography"

To be published in 1998

Initiator/co-ordinator: same as above

• 1-volume Atlas "Man and Ocean"

The Russian version was published in 1996; the English version is planned to be published in 1998 and presented at EXPO’98

Initiator/co-ordinator: same as above