Includes protocols of sessions (zasedaniya) of the Presidium of the Group, shorthand reports of Group's plena [sic] for different years, materials concerning the organization of institutes in the Group such as: Oceanographic Institute, Airologic Institute, Theoretical Geophysics Institute; also information concerning the Oceanographic Committee, Geographic Museum, as well as documents concerning the passage of Black Sea Hydrographic Station to Russian Academy of Sciences. There are work plans of the Group and its institutions for 1936-1938, report on scientific activity in 1937, materials (reports, accounts and articles) on Elbrus Expedition for 1934-1937, plans of the work and reports of the Baikal Limnologic Station of the Russian Academy of Sciences for 1936-1938, a report on the activity of Commission of the Russian Academy of Sciences for Research of Stratosphere for 1936-1938; as well as memo by Shokal skii on important (large?) geographic institutions, museums, and outstanding geographer of the world; articles by V. P. Semenov-Tyan shanskii; articles, reports, comments on scientific workings by scientists of the Group, and others.