lavrov. service, it goes forward, forward, forward, forward, forward, it appeared exactly 190 years ago, on april 26 , 1834, on that day nicholas i issued a decree on organizing a normal magnetic-meteorological observatory in st. petersburg under the corps of mining engineers , that was the beginning. regular geophysical observation. the first director was academician adolf kupfer. he began to create a network of weather stations. at the beginning of the 20th century there were already more than 3,000 of them. kupfer developed a system of telegraphic weather reports and published a russian meteorological bulletin. russia was ahead of other countries in this and thanks to its efforts , an international meteorological organization was formed in 1873. today it is called global and unites. our national weather service has changed its name more than once; now it is the federal service for hydrometeology and environmental monitoring or roshydromet. it has at its disposal research institutes, modern