Collections Council

The Collections Council of the RGS acts to implement scientific, methodological, and expert support of the activities of the archival, library, museum, and cartographic collections of the Society. It is a permanent advisory body of the Society.

COMPOSITION OF THE COLLECTIONS COUNCIL

Kirill Valentinovich Chistyakov

Chairman of the Collections Council

Vice-President of the Russian Geographical Society, Doctor of Geographical Sciences

Roman Vladimirovich Ryabintsev

Secretary of the Collections Council

Director of the Department of the Executive Directorate of the Russian Geographical Society (Headquarters in St. Petersburg)

MEMBERS OF THE COLLECTIONS COUNCIL        

Maria Nikolaevna Bystrova

Head of the Scientific Library of the Russian Geographical Society

Egor Valeryevich Orlov

Head of the Cartographic Collection of the Russian Geographical Society

Tatyana Ivanovna Yusupova

Senior Researcher at the St. Petersburg Branch of the S.I. Vavilov Institute for the History of Science and Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Historical Sciences.

Pavel Anatolyevich Filin

Deputy Director of the Arctic Museum and Exhibition Center, Senior Researcher at the Center for Arctic Studies of the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (the Kunstkamera) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Candidate of Historical Sciences.

Irina Fyodorovna Popova

Director of the St. Petersburg Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Historical Sciences.

Irina Vladimirovna Koshienko

Chief Curator of the Manuscript Department of the Institute of Russian Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IRLI RAS), Candidate of Philological Sciences

Marina Eduardovna Karpova

Director of the M. Gorky Scientific Library of St. Petersburg State University

Yuri Grigoryevich Bobrov

Vice-Rector for Research, Head of the Painting Restoration Department of the Repin Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture, And Architecture, Doctor of Art History

Maria Fyodorovna Matveeva

Head of the Scientific Archive of the Russian Geographical Society