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There are two possibilities to endow a manifold with a complex structure: by means of a holomorphic coordinate atlas or a formally integrable subbundle of the complexified tangent bundle. Thus, there exist two different representations for deformations of the given structure. Although the former way to define a complex structure is quite general and suitable for the theory of complex analytic spaces, namely the latter plays a key role in the Kuranishi's approach to the study of deformations of an isolated singularity with the help of the CR-structure induced on a smooth link of the singularity [\textit{M. Kuranishi}, Proc. Symp. Pure Math. 30, Part 1, Williamstown 1975, 97-106 (1977; Zbl 0357.32014)]. In the paper under review the deformations of an embeddable CR-structure on a three dimensional manifold are described. The author also considers the deformations of the total space of the tangent bundle of a Riemann surface and explains how the two above mentioned different representations for deformations of a complex structure can be compared in this case. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0869.00033].