We carried out the comparative study of the substrate and inhibitory specificity of liver monoamine oxidases (MAO) of the giant sturgeon Huso huso, the starred sturgeon Acipenser stellatus, the Persian sturgeon Acipenser persicus, and the Russian sturgeon Acipenser gueldenstaedtii. Results of the substrate-inhibitor analysis with use of inhibitors chlorgilin and deprenil, as well as five specific substrates indicate homogeneity of these enzymes. All studied MAO have the several orders higher sensitivity to chlorgilin than to deprenil, with essential interspecies differences being observed. There are determined kinetic parameters of enzymatic deamination (K M and V) of tyramine, serotonin, noradrenalin, benzylamine, β-phenylethylamine, and N-methylhistamine. All studied enzymes have been established to have the higher activity toward serotonin and noradrenalin-substrates of the MAO A form as compared with benzylamine, β-phenylethylamine, and N-methylhistamine-substrate of the mammalian MAO B form, the maximal activity being characteristic of the giant sturgeon. and by predominant oxidation of substrates [1]. MAO, like other membrane-bound enzymes, are difficult to be isolated in a poor state; therefore, the substrate and inhibitor analyses are extremely convenient way of study of catalytical properties of this enzyme. Among the majority of MAO, of particular importance is enzyme of fish organs and tissues owing to an expressed peculiarity of its substrate and inhibitor characteristics. Based on results of the substrate-inhibitor analysis, a suggestion is put forward about the presence in liver and brain of the fish paku Piaractus mesopotamicus Holmberg [2], goldfish Carassius auratus L. [3], and the sheatfish Parasilus asotus [4] of one MAO form similar with the MAO A form of terrestrial mammals, while in liver of carp Cyprinidae [5], the rainbow trout Salmo gairdneri [6], and the zebrafish Danio rerio [7]-about the presence