The Board of Trustees of the Russian Geographical Society took place in St. Petersburg

The Board of Trustees of the Russian Geographical Society meeting, 2016. Photo by Nikolay Razuvaev
The Board of Trustees of the Russian Geographical Society meeting, 2016. Photo by Nikolay Razuvaev

The date of the event: the 29th of April, 2016

Place: the Headquarters of the Russian Geographical Society in St. Petersburg

Address:  Grivtsova Lane, 10 A

The 29th of April, 2016 the Board of Trustees of the Russian Geographical Society meeting took place at the Headquarters of the Society in St. Petersburg.

The Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Society Vladimir Putin, the President of the Russian Geographical Society Sergey Shoygu, the Head of the Administration of the President Sergey Ivanov, the members of the Board of Trustees of the Society and the guests of honor took part in the work of the meeting.

The Board of Trustees of the Society was created in 2010. It revived a long tradition of patronage and established the grants of the Society, within the frames of which the significant research, environmental projects, and forwarding projects are being realized. The Board of Trustees consists of famous public figures and business representatives. The results of work made by the Russian Geographical Society for the last year are being summarized, and the future plans are being discussed, awards and grants are being handed in at the meeting of the Board of Trustees.

«We have gathered at the historical headquarters of the Russian Geographical Society in St. Petersburg again, where more than half a century the most part of projects of our organization are being born, - the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Society noted. – And new initiatives are about to be presented today. They will come to life largely thanks to you, the members of the Board of Trustees, and to everyone who unselfishly, with genuine interest support the work of the Russian Geographical Society».

  

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Handing in of the Big Golden Medal of the Russian Geographical Society for scientific works to academician Nikolay Kasimov. Photo by www.kremlin.ru
Handing in of the Big Golden Medal of the Russian Geographical Society for scientific works to academician Nikolay Kasimov. Photo by www.kremlin.ru

At the meeting of the Board in St. Petersburg Vladimir Putin handed in the Big Gold Medal of the Russian Geographical Society for the scientific works to the First Vice-President of the geographic faculty of the Lomonosov Moscow State University Nikolay Kasimov.

The Deputy Head of the Department of Navigation and Oceanography of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Oleg Osipov became the possessor of the Minor Gold Medal of the Russian Geographical Society this year.

Big Silver Medal of the Russian Geographical Society for outstanding work in organizing expeditions was awarded to Ekaterina Khutorskaya, a member of the Ethnographic Commission of the Russian Geographical Society.


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Big Silver Medal of the Russian Geographical Society giving to Ekaterina Khutorskaya. Photo by www.kremlin.ru
Big Silver Medal of the Russian Geographical Society giving to Ekaterina Khutorskaya. Photo by www.kremlin.ru

The honorary diplomas of the Russian Geographical Society were awarded to the following: the volunteers of the most scale geographical expedition of the Society – «Kyzyl-Kuragino»; social project of Konstantin and Oleg Baikov «Accessible planet. Family invaturizm in Russia», supported by grant of the Russian Geographical Society, and geography teacher L.Skuratova from Zhukovsky town, who has been organizing school geographic expeditions.


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The honorary diplomas and grant certificates of the Russian Geographical Society were given at the meeting of the Board of Trustees of 2016
The honorary diplomas and grant certificates of the Russian Geographical Society were given at the meeting of the Board of Trustees of 2016

«2015 was the year of the mark of 170th anniversary of the Russian Geographical Society in general, - emphasized the President of the Society Sergey Shoygu, - and we used this date to tell people about the history of our organization and its present day in details. We were able to implement that thanks to numerous exhibitions, books, films and, of course, the Festival, which took place in the days of the autumn holidays again, and gathered more than 80 000 visitors. Geographical memorable coins, stamps were issued, and special train of the Russian Geographical Society runs in the Moscow metro».

 

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The President of the Russian Geographical Society Sergey Shoygu. Photo by www.kremlin.ru
The President of the Russian Geographical Society Sergey Shoygu. Photo by www.kremlin.ru

Besides, the heads of the Russian Geographical Society told about the plans of the Society for 2016. There is joint with the Ministry of Defense of Russia expedition to the Matua Island included to the plans of the Society for 2016. Matua – is insufficiently explored island of the Kuril chain; creation of an electronic database of caves of Russia and Near Abroad; creation of the park of the Russian Geographical Society named «The most beautiful country» in the «Patriot» park (Moscow region). Antarctic research of the Russian Geographical Society continues: in the year of 2016 the Russian scientists will study the dynamics of the mass of the Antarctic ice. And finally, the new media portals of the Russian Geographical Society have been launched already, they are making public the unique information, which has been collected by the specialists of the Society since 1845.

Completing the meeting, the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Society Vladimir Putin noted: «The renewed Russian Geographical Society is being developed – and it is being successfully developed, in a good pace, demonstrating a good result».

 

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The participants of the Board of Trustees meeting
The participants of the Board of Trustees meeting