Well, go to serve our visitors which, I guess, are waiting for specialized news.

First, I should inform about the last event - 4th International Lake Ladoga Symposium which was held at the Novgorod city 2-6 September, 2002. To promote for protection and management of Lake Ladoga and other large lakes was the main goal of the meeting convened conjointly by Russian Academy of Science, the Institute for limnology (the branch of science studied lakes and their habitats), St. Petersburg and University of Joensuu, Finland.

There was about 60 oral presentations and 30 posters dedicated to the following main issues:

• Current and future state of Lake Ladoga and other large lakes (including the concurrent sessions for hydrobiology, hydrodinamics, organic compounds and sediments);
• Sustainable use, protection, management and monitoring of large lakes;
• Modelling studies for Lake Ladoga and its drainage basin;
• Fisheries of Lake Ladoga and other large lakes.

I did not contribute to the symposium as being not a limnologist (though I would reclaim for this), but I still cannot pass over the posters presented there by my colleagues whom I have helped with translation and answering the questions since the English was official language. Their posters are to show summary of the hydrological network data for one of the large lakes:

• Kokorev A.V., Kokoreva L.V. Research of Lake Peipsi-Pskov water balance and,
• Nedogarko I.V., Kuznetsova J.N. Comparative estimation of total and background biogenic loads to Lake Peipsi-Pskov.

The first of my interests on the symposium was to hear a new about the satellite-based (remote sensing) investigations as I am involved into work of the same kind in co-operation with the Main Geophysical Observatory, St. Petersburg (see purposes). My inquiries were answered by Dr. D. Pozdnyakov's report (in co-authorship with Dr. L. Pettersson) on "Improved algorithms of water quality retrieval from satellite data". Also, I gladly met old friends and have a new acquaints. And, what an occasion, we could see Dr. Johannes Rau, President of Germany, visiting Novgorod just on this day. Thus, Novgorod becomes again Novgorod the Great, like for its longstanding history (please, look at my historical exercise in fantasy.shtml).

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