The research vessel of the Middle Volga branch of VNIRO has been given a new name

 

The event was attended by members of the VNIRO Collegium, employees of the Middle Volga branch, representatives of the Volgograd Region Administration headed by Deputy Governor Vasily Ivanov, university students and guests of the city.

 

Addressing the participants, Deputy Director of VNIRO Pavel Bagimov said that assigning names of people who have made a great contribution to the development of fisheries science has become a good tradition. New ocean-going vessels, Professor Anatoly Elizarov and Professor Pyotr Moiseyev, are being built, and a new research vessel, Vikenty Zaitsev, has been launched for work on Lake Baikal. Now the vessel conducting research on the Middle Volga has been named after the scientist, organizer, and hero of the Great Patriotic War Vasily Vasilyev.

 

Deputy Governor Vasily Ivanov emphasized that perpetuating the memory of front-line soldiers is of great importance for preserving the historical memory of the Great Victory, the people who defeated the hordes of invaders.

 

Head of the Middle Volga branch Efim Kozhurin reported on the great importance for employees and Volgograd residents of naming the research vessel after Vasily Vasilyev. He noted that the active use of the vessel for the comprehensive study of aquatic biological resources and their habitat, including state monitoring, will expand the array of scientific data necessary for the correct determination of total allowable catches and recommended production volumes for industrial fishing, which will almost certainly increase these figures.

 

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Vasiliev Vasily Vasilyevich was born in the village of Fomino, Kudeversky District, Leningrad Region.

 

In 1940, after graduating from high school, he was drafted into the army. Participant of the Great Patriotic War. He was at the front from October 1942 to May 9, 1945, having risen from a cadet in a training company to an artillery division commander.

 

From 1946 to 1951, he was a student at the Astrakhan Technical Institute of the Fishing Industry and Economy, where upon completion of his studies he was awarded the qualification of engineer-technologist.

 

From 1964 to 1982, V.V. Vasiliev headed the Volgograd branch of GosNIORKh. V.V. Vasiliev paid special attention to the implementation of scientific developments in the fishing industry. Possessing outstanding organizational skills and professional competence, he skillfully organized the work of the institute. Under his leadership, the institute's staff carried out research plans with high quality.

 

For high performance and success in production activities, he was awarded the "Excellent Fishing Industry of the USSR" badge. He was a Veteran of Labor. He was awarded the medal "For Valiant Labor in Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of V.I. Lenin" and other jubilee medals, as well as the Certificate of Honor of the Ministry of Fisheries of the RSFSR.

 

Press Service of VNIRO