report by kristina cherkova. depth in this area is 1,400 m. it is located 7 km from the village of listvyanka, and here irkutsk limnologists tested new equipment for water sampling for the first time. the operator is behind the control of the levyodka, he controls that the device lowers at the required speed, this is about 1 m/s. after the cassette reaches the bottom, water samples will be collected with all bathameters, which is 28 liters. the cassette records data on temperature and pressure at depth. the received information is then stored in internal memory. the device itself consists of several bathometers, which allow scientists to take samples at 12 water levels, and at a depth of up to 2.0 m. by the way, this equipment is completely domestic. the peculiarity of this bathometer, this complex , is that it allows this equipment to be lowered autonomously on a cable; similarly, foreign equipment requires a cable cable; scientists simply could not work with a foreign device in winter. same analogue quite compa