Nomination: Preservation of the Russian Geographical Society’s heritage.
Goal: Ensure that the Russian Geographical Society’s archives and valuable publications are well preserved and available to the public.
Objectives:
- Restore and preserve books and documents of the Russian Geographical Society’s archives; provide appropriate storage conditions for the archives.
- Catalog the Russian Geographical Society’s archives.
- Make the Russian Geographical Society’s archives available to the public via Internet.
- Republish the major manuscripts of the Russian geographer and geopolitician Pyotr P. Semyenov Tyan-Shansky and other rare publications of the Society’s researchers.
Project Coordinating Entity: All-Russian Non-Governmental Organization «Russian Geographical Society».
Project Coordinators:
Maria Fedorovna Matveeva – Head of the Russian Geographical Society’s Archive – long-term Archive’s “guard” who has worked at the Russian Geographical Society’s Archive for 38 years.
Victor Vladislavovich Senichkin – Acting Scientific Secretary of the Russian Geographical Society, Director of the Volunteer Projects of the Russian Geographical Society.