The Mir-1 and Mir-2 manned submersibles are removed from their Irkutsk storage facility and delivered the village of Nikola, where the Metropoliya special-purpose ship is already undergoing preparations for the new expedition season.  The unique craft are thoroughly inspected by Moscow experts from the Manned Submersibles Laboratory of the P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences.