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I had previously mentioned in a casual remark I had a 50 year old, 1968, copy of a translated from Russian to English Russian Diving Manual, It is ;
S,Ye, Bulenkov, etal,
' Spravocknik Plovtsa- Podvodnika"
Publishing house of the ministry of defense
Moscow, Russia
1968 - 278 pages
As you recall our nations mutual history at that time there was what was known as the cold war. The western world and especially the US obtained very little information from or about Russia.
In the 1960s and at that time of publication I was the CDO & SIO of a deep diving submarine program that was cancelled a short time later. But we wanted to know about what the Russians were doing and where their SCUBA diving was in relation to the US and the western world.
So some one in Washington DC had obtained a copy of ' Spravocknik Plovtsa- Podvodnika" which we had translated into English and printed.
All these 60 years I have had it in my dive library next to all the US diving manuals as sort of a time capsule
Perhaps you can comment on the author, the publication and the Russian equipment of that time frame ?
Cheers from California - where recreational diving began in the US
Sam Miller, 111
@АлександрД
@Akimbo
S,Ye, Bulenkov, etal,
' Spravocknik Plovtsa- Podvodnika"
Publishing house of the ministry of defense
Moscow, Russia
1968 - 278 pages
As you recall our nations mutual history at that time there was what was known as the cold war. The western world and especially the US obtained very little information from or about Russia.
In the 1960s and at that time of publication I was the CDO & SIO of a deep diving submarine program that was cancelled a short time later. But we wanted to know about what the Russians were doing and where their SCUBA diving was in relation to the US and the western world.
So some one in Washington DC had obtained a copy of ' Spravocknik Plovtsa- Podvodnika" which we had translated into English and printed.
All these 60 years I have had it in my dive library next to all the US diving manuals as sort of a time capsule
Perhaps you can comment on the author, the publication and the Russian equipment of that time frame ?
Cheers from California - where recreational diving began in the US
Sam Miller, 111
@АлександрД
@Akimbo