Spindler Joseph Bernardovich 
(1848–1919)

The famous Russian oceanographer and meteorologist, Lieutenant-General Corps of hydrographs. 
Born in the Minsk province. After graduating from high school in Slutsk in 1867, he was called up for military service, starting it as a naval cadet.Spindler spent five years sailing the Baltic and Black Seas, training abroad trips, and received an officer’s rank. From 1872 to 1874 he attended a course at the Nikolaev Maritime Academy, after which he was seconded by the maritime ministry for classes at the Main Physical Observatory, where he was assigned to manage the daily meteorological bulletin and weather prediction department. The start of Spindler's research on the development of storm warning techniques dates back to this period. He published his first scientific work, The Paths of Storms in Europe, which was at the same time one of the first on this issue in general. Then Spindler published in the Maritime Collection and in the publications of the Main Physical Observatory materials of research related to marine meteorology. 
In 1884, the Maritime Office recalled Spindler from the Main Physical Observatory and sent it to the Main Hydrographic Office to supervise the meteorological unit. At the same time, he began teaching physical geography at the Naval Cadet Corps, and from 1888 began to lecture on the same subject at the Nikolaev Maritime Academy. The activities of Spindler in the Main Hydrographic Office contributed to the development of hydro-meteorological services on the seas and the satisfaction of practical issues of navigation. With his active participation, weather stations were opened in the Caspian, Baltic, Black, Azov seas and the Pacific Ocean. Spindler was the initiator of the publication of "Notes on Hydrography" and was their first editor. In 1887, on his initiative and under his editorship, the publication of Notes on Hydrography was resumed, interrupted in 1852. 
For more than 25 years, Spindler actively collaborated in the Meteorological Commission of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society, and in the editorial board of Meteorological Bulletin. 
Since 1888, Spindler’s scientific activity has moved to another branch of physical geography — oceanography. From 1890, under his leadership several expeditions were equipped to explore the seas and lakes; so, in 1890 and 1891. on the initiative of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society, and with the assistance of the Ministry of the Navy, oceanographic studies of the Black and Azov Seas were carried out, which provided very important information about these basins; then in 1894, studies were conducted under the general leadership of Spindler, the Sea of Marmara, in the summer of 1895, Lake Peipsi, and finally, in 1897, the Karabugaz Bay of the Caspian Sea.The results of each of these expeditions were printed by Spindler first with brief information, and then published full reports. 
In 1907 Spindler took the post of deputy chief of the Main Hydrographic Department.  In 1915 he published his book "Hydrology of the Sea (Oceanography)". Edited by Spindler published four issues of the “Collection of Hydrometeorological Observations” and atlases of the winds of the Black and Japanese Seas. 
Information about how and where he ended his life path, could not be found. It is only known that his wife, Elena Andreevna Spindler, died in Nice in 1950 at the age of 91. 
The tract, the lake and the river to the east of the village of Amderma. The name came from the bay, named by A.I. Varnek. Later, when refining the coastline of this bay, it did not appear.