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Definition. The smooth irreducible projective variety \(X\) of dimension three over the field of complex numbers is called a Fano threefold, if the anticanonical sheaf \(- K_ X\) (resp. the anticanonical divisor \(- K_ X)\) is ample. Definition. The integer \(g = g(X) = - (K_ X )^ 3/2 + 1\) is called a genus of the Fano threefold \(X\). The Fano variety \(X\) is called a Fano variety of the main series, if the anticanonical divisor \(- K_ X\) is very ample. Therefore, the linear system \(| - K_ X |\) gives an embedding of \(X\) in \(\mathbb{P}^{g + 1}\) as a subvariety of degree \(2\cdot g-2\), \((g\geq 3)\). The intersections of \(X\) with codimension 2 subspaces \(\mathbb{P}^{g - 1} \subset\mathbb{P}^{g + 1}\) are canonical curves of degree \(2 \cdot g - 2\) and of arithmetical genus \(p_ a = g(X)\). The Fano variety \(X\) is called a (Fano) variety of the first kind, if \(\text{Pic} (X) \simeq \mathbb{Z}\), where \(\text{Pic} (X)\) is the Picard group of \(X\). The Fano threefolds of the main series and of the first kind have genus \(g \leq 12\). The 3-folds of \(g = 7\) and of \(g \geq 9\) are rational. The variety of \(g = 8\) is interpreted as an intersection of the Grassmannian of the lines in \(\mathbb{P}^ 5\), embedded by Plücker in \(\mathbb{P}^{14}\), with a codimension 5 subspace \(\mathbb{P}^ 9 \subset\mathbb{P}^{14}\): the last is birational to a smooth cubic hypersurface in \(\mathbb{P}^ 4\). The variety \(X_ 8 \subset\mathbb{P}^ 6\) of genus 5 is a complete intersection of three quadrics in \(\mathbb{P}^ 6\). In particular, the Fano varieties \(X_{10} \subset\mathbb{P}^ 7\) of genus 6 are the last nontrivial examples of Fano threefolds for which \(\text{Pic} \simeq \mathbb{Z}\) and which have very ample anticanonical class. They are divided into two types: (1) an intersection of the Grassmannian of lines of \(\mathbb{P}^ 4\), embedded by Plücker in \(\mathbb{P}^ 9\), with a codimension 2 subspace \(\mathbb{P}^ 7 \subset\mathbb{P}^ 9\) and with a quadric: (2) an intersection of a cone (in \(\mathbb{P}^ 7)\) over the threefold \(X_ 5 \subset \mathbb{P}^ 6\) with a quadric, where \(X_ 5 \subset \mathbb{P}^ 6\) is an intersection of the Grassmannian of the lines in \(\mathbb{P}^ 4\), embedded by Plücker in \(\mathbb{P}^ 9\), with a codimension 3 subspace \(\mathbb{P}^ 6 \subset\mathbb{P}^ 9\). It is known that the two types of Fano threefolds of genus \(g = 6\) belong to one type of deformations. The Fano threefold of genus \(g = 6\) (resp. of degree \(d = 2 \cdot g - 2 = 10)\) of the first of the abovementioned types is studied in the present paper. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0755.00010].