Axisymmetric turbulent flow which is nonimpulsive on the average takes place a certain distance from a body in the flow, the resistance of the body being compensated for by a hydraulic motor. In [6], the body was a disk. The resistance of the disk was balanced by the momentum of a jet injected along the symmetry axis of the flow. A ring was used instead of a disk in [7], while the authors of [8, 9] used a streamlined body, the resistance of which was offset by a jet or propeller. Analyzing these results, it can be stated that the specific method used to introduce the perturbation has a great effect on the subsequent evolution of the turbulent flow - a fact which is of fundamental importance in the mathematical modeling of turbulence. In connection with this, there is substantial interest in experimental results obtained with initial conditions different from those used in [6-9]. In particular, it is interesting to examine experiments in which turbulence was generated by a body more streamlined than those in [6, 7], but less streamlined than those in [8, 9]. One of the "classical" bodies of this class is a sphere, which we will use in our investigation. Tests were conducted in a low-turbulence wind tunnel with a closed working part 4 m long and characteristic cross-sectional dimensions 0.4 0.4 m with triangular inserts at the corners. A sphere of the diameter D = 25 mm was secured on four tungsten wires 0.i mm in diameter at the beginning of the working part. The sphere was fitted on a tube with an outside diameter of 8 mm and an inside diameter of 6 man. Figure 1 shows a diagram of the setup, where 1 is the tube through which air was delivered at a controlled rate by way of a regulator from a high-pressure main; 2, bracing wire; 3, sphere; and 4, working part of the wind tunnel. Also shown is the stationary system of cylindrical coordinates that was later used. The origin of the system was located on the rear edge of the sphere. As functions of the space coordinates we investigated the mean velocity, static pressure, all components of the Reynolds-stress tensor, and the spectral density Of fluctuations of the longitudinal velocity component. To do this, we used a complex of thermoanemometric equipment made by the DISA company with one- and two-wire transducers. We also used Pitot tubes and static pressure tubes in the investigation. The measurements were made in the directions indicated by the dashed lines in Fig. i, where the wires had no effect. The measurements covered the region 5 ~ x/D ~ i00, while they covered the entire region of disturbed motion with respect to the coordinate r/D. Statistical analysis of the signals from the hot-wire anemometer was performed with the HISTOMAT-S automatic data analysis system made by Intertechnique. The sensitive element of the anemometer was made of platinized tungsten wire 0.005 mm in diameter and 1.25 mm in length (one-wire transducer) or 1.5 mm in length (two-wire transducer). The flow nozzles were made of medical needles with an outside diameter of i.i mm. The maximum temperature difference between the flow in the wind tunnel and in the jet at x/D = 0 was no greater than 0.7~ This allowed us to consider the flow to be isothermal, since the initially small difference rapidly decreased even further with subsequent mixing. The distortions of the measurements associated with the limited space-time resolution of the equipment and its inherent noises were of the same order of magnitude.