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Arctic Blogger No.1. Ambassador of the Arctic and the Far East. Author of the ‘About Travel’ Channel
Bogdan Bulychev – Head of the Centre for the Support and Development of Expeditionary Activities and Tourist Attraction of the RGO Expo Regions, Ambassador of the Arctic, Far East and TOYOTA in Russia. Organizer of international projects that aim to promote and increase tourist flows to regions of the Far East and Arctic.
During the existence of the RGO Expo Expeditionary Centre since 2015, more than 15 major international and Russian expeditions have been conducted with views by more than 350,000,000 people. The RGO Expo team and its head Bogdan Bulychev have become recognizable on virtually every continent in the world. The Arctic-Dixon and North Pole projects were viewed by 198 million and 168 million people, respectively.

Igor Muraev was born on October 17 in Omsk region.
In 1997, he graduated with honors from the Omsk State Agrarian University with a degree in “Accounting, Control and Analysis of Economic Activities”. In 1997-1998 underwent retraining at the Siberian Academy of Government Administration with a degree in “State and Municipal Administration”.
In 2004, at the Ural State Economic University he defended his thesis on "Formation of a regional market for fuel resources" with the assignment of a PhD in economics.
From 2000 to 2006, he worked at the Ministry of Economy of the Omsk Region, where Igor Muraev went from a leading specialist to the head of the department of the development of industrial and utility infrastructure and public administration reform.
Since 2006, Igor Muraev was appointed Deputy Minister, Head of the Department of Finance and Economics of the Ministry of Construction and Housing and Utilities of the Omsk Region, and since 2008, First Deputy Minister of Construction and Housing and Utility Services of the Omsk Region.
From 2009 to 2012 - Minister of Economy of the Omsk Region.
From 2013 to 2015 - Advisor to the Director of Federal State Budgetary Institution “Roslesinforg” (FSBI “Roslesinforg”).
From 2015 to 2017 - Director of “Zapsiblesproekt” branch (Novosibirsk).
From 2017 - Director of the FSBI “Roslesinforg”.

Ksenia Titova is a professional in urban spatial development and tourism master planning (RANEPA, HSE). She contributed to developing urban planning documentation for Kazan in addition to spatial development concepts for Irkutsk and Kirovsk.

For more than three years, she was responsible for updating the regulatory framework based on the Integrated Territorial Development Standard and for providing support to integrated urban development projects at DOM.RF Foundation.

Since 2021, Ksenia has been Director of the Project Office of ProGorod LLC (VEB.RF), with her job functions including master planning for tourism macro-regions of the Russian Federation.

In 2023, he was appointed Managing Director of Avito. Mr. Fedulov oversees the company’s partnership with government authorities.
He has 30 years’ governmental experience.
Between 2020 and 2023, he served as Deputy Ministry of Economic Development of Russia.
From 2009 to 2020, Mr. Fedulov worked in the RF Government Office, where he rose from Deputy Director to Director of the Government Department of Information Technologies and Communications.
Between 2006 and 2009, he held senior positions in the Russian Ministry of Economic Development, the Center for Strategic Research - Region Foundation, the Russian Accounts Chamber and the Russian Government Office.
Between 1993 and 2006 he held various positions in commercial companies and government agencies.
Mr. Fedulov graduated from the Moscow University of Consumer Cooperation with a major in Finance and Credit.

Born on January 22, 1972 in Leningrad
1994 - graduated from the physics department of Lomonosov Moscow State University
Started his career in finance corporation «SAPI»
1995 – Deputy Chairman of the Board of «Almazergienbank»
1998 – The Chairman of «Almazergienbank»
2004 – Minister of Finance of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia)
2007 – Chief of the Presidential and Government Administration of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia)
2011 – First Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia)
2012 - 2017 – Mayor of the city of Yakutsk
May 2018 – appointed as acting Head of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia)
The Head of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) since September 2018
He was elected to the State Assembly (Il Tumen) of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia).
Granted title of honor «Honored Worker of National Economy of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia)». Decorated with diplomas of the Federation Council, The State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.

Nikolai Kharitonov graduated from the Novosibirsk Agricultural Institute with in agronomics and from the Academy of National Economy under the Government of the Russian Federation. He is a Candidate of Sciences (Econ.).
Director of a state farm, Chairman of AO Galinskoye (Moshkov District of the Novosibirsk Region). Honoured agricultural worker of the Russian Federation. Honoured physical culture worker of the Russian Federation.
He has been elected deputy to the rural and district councils of people’s deputies, deputy to the Novosibirsk Region Council of People’s Deputies, a people’s deputy of the RSFSR; has been a member of the Committee of the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation for social development of rural areas, agrarian issues and food. Nikolai Kharitonov was nominated by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation as President of the Russian Federation in the 2004 election.
Deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of all the six convocations.
Member of the faction of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.
He has been awarded the “Order of Friendship”, medals “For Labour Merit”, “To commemorate the 850th Anniversary of Moscow”, the commemorative anniversary medal and commemorative token of the Chairman of the State Duma “100 Years from the Day the State Duma was Founded in Russia”, Honorary Certificate of the State Duma, badge of honour of the State Duma “For Merits in Developing Parliamentarism”, gold medal “For Contribution to the Development of the Agricultural Complex of Russia”, medal “For Merits to the Novosibirsk Region”.

Has 18 years of experience in human resources management. During the last five years she has been leading the annual TOP 1000 Russian Managers rating in energy by Managers Association and Kommersant publishing house. In 2016, she won the eponymous national award, taking the first place among all country’s HR managers. In 2018, she took the grand prix in the HR Manager of the Year nomination of the Crystal Pyramid 2018 award for achievements in human resources management established by the organizing committee of the Summit of HR managers Russia, CIS and Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.
In the state corporation she oversees development and implementation of HR management strategy in the industry. As a result of her work, Rosatom has been repeatedly recognized as the best employer for graduates in engineering and technical specializations in Universum international rating. Rosatom leads the rating of best Russian employers according to HeadHunter, the country’s largest recruiting portal. Rosatom is the only partially state-owned company that was called the best employer according to a research by AON Hewitt international consulting company.

Date and place of birth:
May 7, 1960, Yansky settlement, Verkhoyansk district, Yakut ASSR.
Education:
Riga Civil Aviation Engineers Institute, 1983.

Appointed Permanent Representative of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) to the President of the Russian Federation in 2018 and was granted the status of First Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).
Ensures interaction with the executive bodies of state power of the Russian Federation, the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on political, economic, scientific, technical and cultural relations, as well as on international and interregional issues.

State awards:
2021 - Certificate of Honor of the Russian Academy of Sciences
2023 - Certificate of Honor of the President of the Russian Federation
2023 - Medal of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation “"For Strengthening Military Cooperation"
2024 - Order of Friendship
2024 - Medal of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation "To the Participant of the Special Military Operation"

Year of birth: 1976.
1998: Graduated from the Far Eastern State Transport University.
1998 – 2002: Held managerial positions at railway transport enterprises.
2002 – 2004: CEO of LLC Dalneftetrans.
2004 – 2006: CEO of JSC "Far Eastern Transport Group".
2006 – 2009: Deputy Director of the Department of State Policy in the field of railway transport of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation.
2009 – 2011: Deputy Director of the Department of Industry and Infrastructure of the Government of the Russian Federation.
January 2012 - June 2012: Head of the Federal Agency of Railway Transport.
June 2012 - February 2017 he worked as Deputy Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation.
February 2017 – September 2017: Acting head of the Republic of Buryatia.
Since September 2017: Head of the Republic of Buryatia.

Alexey Chekunkov has been the head of the Far East Development Fund since October, 2014.In 2013-2014 Alexey managed his own investment company PAMIR Capital before appointment to the position of the Far East Development Fund Chief Executive Officer. In 2011-2013 he worked as a Director, Member of the Management Board and Investment Committee in the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF). Mr. Chekunkov was responsible for investments in healthcare, energy saving, raw materials sector as well as for establishing of the Russian-Chinese Investment Fund with 2 billion dollars capital. In 2009-2011 Alexey managed his own investment company New Nations Capital (venture capital investments, investment banking). In 2006-2009 he worked in the position of Managing Director in the investment company United Gold Company (UGC), being a part of Alfa-Group consortium.In 2003-2006 he was Vice-President in Delta Private Equity, one of the leading private equity companies in Russia, managing over 500 million dollars capital. He participated in a number of landmark deals including sale of Delta Bank, of TV channels STS and TV-3, of the National Cable Networks holding, of the company Compulink. In 2002-2003 Mr. Chekunkov took part in consolidation of gold-mining assets in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) as the Projects Director in the Investment Group Alrosa. On November 10, 2020, by decree of the President of the Russian Federation, he was appointed Minister of the Russian Federation for the Development of the Far East and the Arctic.

Since 2022 – General Director of Baimskaya Management LLC (Baimskaya Management) and a member of the Board of Directors of GDK Baimskaya LLC. Prior to that, he was General Director of KAZ Minerals LLC

Since 2016 – Investment Director in the Project Office of the Deputy Chairman of the Government – Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Far Eastern Federal District and Minister for the Development of the Far East and the Arctic (currently JSC Corporation for the Development of the Far East and the Arctic)

Previously held senior positions at Vi Holding (mining), an international private equity fund, and VTB Capital Investment Bank

Graduated with honours from the National University of Science and Technology MISIS in Mining Engineering (qualification "Mining Engineer"), holds a Master's degree from Moscow State Institute of International Relations MGIMO (University) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation in Financial Economics

Deputy Director for Regional Development at the Information and Analytical Centre of the State Commission for Arctic Development, an autonomous non-profit organization.
Born on 28 May 1989 in Bryansk, Bryansk Region.
Graduated from Bryansk State Technical University in 2011 with two degrees in economics and management, and engineering.
From 2011 to 2013, he worked as an engineer at Bryanskenergo, a branch of MRSK Centre (Rosseti).
Since 2013, he has been involved in regional development in various positions: in the civil service of the Bryansk Region, in the non-profit Monotowns Development Fund (MONOGORODA.RF of the VEB.RF Group), and in the JSC Corporation for Development of the Far East and the Arctic. Since 2020, he has been the Deputy Director for Regional Development of the Information and Analytical Centre of the State Commission for Arctic Development.
He participated in the preparation of several strategic planning documents at the municipal, regional and federal levels, including the preparation of the priority programme of the Russian government’s project “Integrated Development of Monotowns”, the Principles of State Policy of the Russian Federation in the Arctic until 2035, the Strategy of Development and National Security of the Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation until 2035, and the Russian state programme “Social and Economic Development of the Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation”.

Born on 17 February 1954. In 1976 he graduated from the Leningrad ‘Order of the October Revolution’ Higher Engineering Marine School named after Adm. S. O. Makarov. He held the positions of adviser to the president of OAO Russian Railways, head of the Federal Agency for Maritime and River Transport, first Deputy Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation, and General Director of OAO Murmansk Shipping Company. Since the establishment of FGUP Atomflot in 2008 and its merger with the State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM, he has been the enterprise’s General Director. On 24 July 2018, he was appointed Deputy Director General and Head of the Directorate for the Northern Sea Route, ROSATOM.

Natalia has worked on TV since the age of 16. She began as a reporter in Krasnodar. Since 2006 she has worked as a correspondent and presenter of programs of TV channel «Russia 24». She invented and created a specialized format «Facts» on the TV channel as well.
She interviewed ministers, governors, top managers of Russian and foreign companies. Natalia took part in preparation of an election campaign of the president in 2012. She has prepared and conducted several annual presentation of «Digital Television Russia» of VGTRK. Natalia lived on a drilling platform behind the Polar circle and shot the film about oil extraction in the Arctic in 2014.
In 2015 she was appointed as an editor-in-chief of «STRANA» TV Channel, aimed at telling about Russian brands, regions and their points of growth, huge enterprises and private companies, development of internal tourism. She is also the adviser to the Director General of JSC «Digital Television Russia» for public and social broadcasting.

Igor Muraev was born on October 17 in Omsk region.
In 1997, he graduated with honors from the Omsk State Agrarian University with a degree in “Accounting, Control and Analysis of Economic Activities”. In 1997-1998 underwent retraining at the Siberian Academy of Government Administration with a degree in “State and Municipal Administration”.
In 2004, at the Ural State Economic University he defended his thesis on "Formation of a regional market for fuel resources" with the assignment of a PhD in economics.
From 2000 to 2006, he worked at the Ministry of Economy of the Omsk Region, where Igor Muraev went from a leading specialist to the head of the department of the development of industrial and utility infrastructure and public administration reform.
Since 2006, Igor Muraev was appointed Deputy Minister, Head of the Department of Finance and Economics of the Ministry of Construction and Housing and Utilities of the Omsk Region, and since 2008, First Deputy Minister of Construction and Housing and Utility Services of the Omsk Region.
From 2009 to 2012 - Minister of Economy of the Omsk Region.
From 2013 to 2015 - Advisor to the Director of Federal State Budgetary Institution “Roslesinforg” (FSBI “Roslesinforg”).
From 2015 to 2017 - Director of “Zapsiblesproekt” branch (Novosibirsk).
From 2017 - Director of the FSBI “Roslesinforg”.

Education Institute of Asian and African countries at Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Law (Lomonosov MSU), internship at Yale University (USA) and the University of Coimbra (Portugal).
Academic degree: Ph.D. in Economics
For over 20 years Roman Trotsenko has been engaged in crisis management of enterprises in various sectors of the economy, designing and managing of development projects (residential and office projects in Moscow and the Moscow region), consolidation and management of Russian airports.
Core businesses: Russian airports (about 14 airports operated by NOVAPORT), development projects in Moscow and Russian regions, river transport (freight and passenger traffic, shipbuilding), chemical industry, sea port development.
State awards: the Jubilee Medal "300 Years of the Russian Navy" (1996), awarded with badge "Honorary Worker of the Russian Federation Transport" (2011), the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland"; in 1999-2004-2008 was recognized as a highly-skilled specialist in crisis management of industrial enterprises. Laureate in Science and Technology (2014).

Mikhail Zhelezniak (born 24.12.1956) – Director of the Melnikov Permafrost Institute of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Yakutsk), Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Full Member of Sakha (Yakutia) Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Geol. & Miner. Sciences, Honored Worker in Science and Technology of the Russian Federation, Merited Scientist of Sakha (Yakutia), professor of the North-Eastern Federal University. Permafrost scientist with research interests in regional geocryology and permafrost geothermics, author of 350 publications, including 5 monographs. Editor-in-Chief of Kriosfera Zemli; editorial board member of Inzhenernye Izyskania and Sciences in Cold and Arid Regions; Chair of the D 003.025.01 Dissertation Council at Melnikov Permafrost Institute; member of the Interdisciplinary Councils on Earth Sciences of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Sakha (Yakutia) Academy of Sciences, SB RAS Yakutian Scientific Center Presidium, Sakha (Yakutia) Head’s Advisory Council on Research and Technology Policy. Member of the Presidential Implementation Council, Russian Federal Environmental and Climate Change Research Program for 2021-2030.

Aleksander Makarov – geomorphologist, doctor of geographical sciences, professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
PhD and doctoral theses are devoted to the variability of the Arctic environment over the past ten thousand years. Alexander Makarov's research interests include the paleogeography of the earth's polar regions in the Holocene, as well as the Sea Level variability.
In 2000 entered St. Petersburg State University on faculty of geography and geoecology, Department of geomorphology. In June 2005 he joined the Department of geography of the polar states of AANII and continued his active expedition and research work. In 2003-2009, annually participated in the organization and conduct of international Russian-German expeditions to The Lena Delta, and from 2010 to 2015 led these expeditions. In 2009, on the basis of the collected materials he defended his PhD thesis on the specialty "Geomorphology and evolutionary geography" on " Laptev Sea Level Fluctuations as a Factor in the Formation of The Lena Delta in the Holocene", in 2017 – doctoral thesis on "Fluctuations of Level of the Arctic Seas in the Holocene". Participated in the creation of a new modern research station on the island Samoilovsky. In 2016, he was appointed to the position of Deputy Director of Federal State Budgetary Institution AANII, after which headed the work on the creation of The Russian scientific center on Svalbard archipelago. Since September, 2017 holds a post of the Director of the Arctic and Antarctic research Institute of Roshydromet.

Nikolai Kharitonov graduated from the Novosibirsk Agricultural Institute with in agronomics and from the Academy of National Economy under the Government of the Russian Federation. He is a Candidate of Sciences (Econ.).
Director of a state farm, Chairman of AO Galinskoye (Moshkov District of the Novosibirsk Region). Honoured agricultural worker of the Russian Federation. Honoured physical culture worker of the Russian Federation.
He has been elected deputy to the rural and district councils of people’s deputies, deputy to the Novosibirsk Region Council of People’s Deputies, a people’s deputy of the RSFSR; has been a member of the Committee of the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation for social development of rural areas, agrarian issues and food. Nikolai Kharitonov was nominated by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation as President of the Russian Federation in the 2004 election.
Deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of all the six convocations.
Member of the faction of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.
He has been awarded the “Order of Friendship”, medals “For Labour Merit”, “To commemorate the 850th Anniversary of Moscow”, the commemorative anniversary medal and commemorative token of the Chairman of the State Duma “100 Years from the Day the State Duma was Founded in Russia”, Honorary Certificate of the State Duma, badge of honour of the State Duma “For Merits in Developing Parliamentarism”, gold medal “For Contribution to the Development of the Agricultural Complex of Russia”, medal “For Merits to the Novosibirsk Region”.

Aleksander Makarov – geomorphologist, doctor of geographical sciences, professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
PhD and doctoral theses are devoted to the variability of the Arctic environment over the past ten thousand years. Alexander Makarov's research interests include the paleogeography of the earth's polar regions in the Holocene, as well as the Sea Level variability.
In 2000 entered St. Petersburg State University on faculty of geography and geoecology, Department of geomorphology. In June 2005 he joined the Department of geography of the polar states of AANII and continued his active expedition and research work. In 2003-2009, annually participated in the organization and conduct of international Russian-German expeditions to The Lena Delta, and from 2010 to 2015 led these expeditions. In 2009, on the basis of the collected materials he defended his PhD thesis on the specialty "Geomorphology and evolutionary geography" on " Laptev Sea Level Fluctuations as a Factor in the Formation of The Lena Delta in the Holocene", in 2017 – doctoral thesis on "Fluctuations of Level of the Arctic Seas in the Holocene". Participated in the creation of a new modern research station on the island Samoilovsky. In 2016, he was appointed to the position of Deputy Director of Federal State Budgetary Institution AANII, after which headed the work on the creation of The Russian scientific center on Svalbard archipelago. Since September, 2017 holds a post of the Director of the Arctic and Antarctic research Institute of Roshydromet.

Igor Muraev was born on October 17 in Omsk region.
In 1997, he graduated with honors from the Omsk State Agrarian University with a degree in “Accounting, Control and Analysis of Economic Activities”. In 1997-1998 underwent retraining at the Siberian Academy of Government Administration with a degree in “State and Municipal Administration”.
In 2004, at the Ural State Economic University he defended his thesis on "Formation of a regional market for fuel resources" with the assignment of a PhD in economics.
From 2000 to 2006, he worked at the Ministry of Economy of the Omsk Region, where Igor Muraev went from a leading specialist to the head of the department of the development of industrial and utility infrastructure and public administration reform.
Since 2006, Igor Muraev was appointed Deputy Minister, Head of the Department of Finance and Economics of the Ministry of Construction and Housing and Utilities of the Omsk Region, and since 2008, First Deputy Minister of Construction and Housing and Utility Services of the Omsk Region.
From 2009 to 2012 - Minister of Economy of the Omsk Region.
From 2013 to 2015 - Advisor to the Director of Federal State Budgetary Institution “Roslesinforg” (FSBI “Roslesinforg”).
From 2015 to 2017 - Director of “Zapsiblesproekt” branch (Novosibirsk).
From 2017 - Director of the FSBI “Roslesinforg”.

Born on 22 May 1968 in Novocherkassk, Rostov Region.
In 1990, he graduated with honours from the Novosibirsk 60th Anniversary of October Higher General Military and Political School, in 2003 from the Academy of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation, in 2011 from the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration.
Since 1990, he served in the 103th Vitebsk airborne division, since 1993 – in the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (commander of the regional division of the Alpha group). Several times he was sent to the emergency zones, took part in counter-terrorist operations in the Chechen Republic. He was wounded three times.
In 2003, he was elected deputy of the 4th State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation from a single mandate district. He was a member of the following committees and commissions: International Affairs Committee, Anti-Corruption Council, Mandate and Deputy Ethics Commission; headed the subcommittee on legislative support for international cooperation of the Russian Federation in the fight against international terrorism and transnational organised crime. In the 5th State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, he worked in the Defence Committee, co-chaired the Commission for the Federal Budget Expenditures, aimed at ensuring the defence and state security of the Russian Federation.
In the 6th State Duma of the Federal Assembly, he was deputy chairman of the Defence Committee.
In 2009, he was included in the top 100 executive candidates pool of the President of the Russian Federation.
In April 2015, the Government of the Russian Federation appointed Igor Barinov as the head of the Federal Agency for Nationality Affairs.
Awarded the fourth-class medal for the Order of Merit to the Fatherland, Order of Courage, the Order of Military Merit, the Suvorov Medal, the 1st, 2nd and 3rd class medals ‘For Distinguished Military Service’, the medal ‘For Strengthening Comradeship-in-Arms’.
Married with a son and three daughters.

Mikhail is the Strategy and Operations Consulting Leader at TeDo with over 20 years of experience in consulting major private and public sector companies across multiple industries.
He is focused on strategy consulting, business transformation, risk management, large infrastructure and investment projects using equity or debt financing, including public-private partnership (PPP) arrangements.
During the last 20 years, Mikhail has led more than 300 engagements in more than 10 countries. His client portfolio comprises largest infrastructure, energy and transport companies.
Being an active participant of leading business forums, Mikhail is supporting a constant dialogue between the business community and authorities aimed at developing of the Russian economy and improving engagement with principal trade partners of Russia.

Born on February 21, 1952, in Tsebrikovo, Odessa Region, Ukraine.
1973 – graduated from the Railway Corps and Military Transport School, Leningrad (now St Petersburg).
1983 – graduated from the Military Logistics Support and Transport Academy with a degree in Railway Engineering.
1973–1976 – served on the Transdnestr Railway in the Odessa Military District.
1976–1980 – served in the South Army Group.
1983–1985 – Military Commandant of a railway section and Urgal station on the Baikal-Amur railway line (BAM).
1984 – took part in driving the Golden Spike, when eastern and western sections of the BAM were linked.
1985–1994 – Section Military Commandant, Head of a Military Transport Department and Deputy Head of Military Transport on the Moscow Railway.
1996–2004 – employed at SeverStalTrans.
1998 – Deputy CEO of SeverStalTrans; supervised the transport engineering sector, railway transport and seaport operations.
March 9, 2004 – appointed Transport and Communications Minister.
May 20, 2004 – appointed Transport Minister.
Since May 21, 2012 – Adviser to the President of the Russian Federation.
Since September 2, 2013 – Aide to the President of the Russian Federation.
Was a member of the Public Council of the Government Commission for the Railway Transport Reform.
Married, with a daughter.

Alexey Likhachev is Director General of ROSATOM. He assumed office in October 2016. Mr. Likhachev has since been responsible for overseeing the entire spectrum of the state corporation’s activities.
Before joining ROSATOM, Mr. Likhachev worked in the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia, where he held a wide variety of leadership positions. He joined the ministry in 2007. He worked as an advisor to the Minister of Economic Development until 2008, in 2010 he was appointed Deputy Minister, and in February 2015 he was promoted to the position of First Deputy Minister of Economic Development.
Throughout his career, Mr. Likhachev held senior positions in other governmental bodies and public organizations as well. He was a member of the State Duma (the lower house of Russia’s parliamentary body), serving as Deputy Chairman of the Committee for Economic Policy, Entrepreneurship and Tourism (2000-2007). Previously, he worked as managing director of Social Industrial Insurance Company ‘Aval’ in Nizhniy Novgorod (1992-2000).
Mr. Likhachev graduated from Gorky State University and started his career as an engineer in the Gorky Research Institute of Instrumentation (1985-1987). In 1998 he graduated from the Economic Faculty of Nizhniy Novgorod State University with a Ph.D. in economics.

Born on January 22, 1972 in Leningrad
1994 - graduated from the physics department of Lomonosov Moscow State University
Started his career in finance corporation «SAPI»
1995 – Deputy Chairman of the Board of «Almazergienbank»
1998 – The Chairman of «Almazergienbank»
2004 – Minister of Finance of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia)
2007 – Chief of the Presidential and Government Administration of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia)
2011 – First Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia)
2012 - 2017 – Mayor of the city of Yakutsk
May 2018 – appointed as acting Head of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia)
The Head of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) since September 2018
He was elected to the State Assembly (Il Tumen) of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia).
Granted title of honor «Honored Worker of National Economy of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia)». Decorated with diplomas of the Federation Council, The State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation.

Born on July 15, 1979 in Moscow.
Education:
Graduated from the Military University attached to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation in 2001.
Graduated from the Moscow Institute of International Business in 2006.
Fluent in English, Greek and French.
Work experience:
1996-2005: Military service.
2005-2008: Worked in various positions at the Department of Foreign Economic Relations, Ministry
of Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation.
2008-2011: Worked in various positions аt the Ministry of Regional Development of the Russian Federation.
2011-2013: Director of the Department of International Relations and Development of Cross-Border Cooperation, Director of the Department for the Coordination of State Industry Programs, Ministry
of Regional Development of the Russian Federation.
2013-2014: Aide to the Minister, Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, Director of the Department for Interaction with Customs Union Authorities and Economic Cooperation with CIS Countries, Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation.
2014-2017: Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation.
Since September 2017 - Acting Governor of Nenets Autonomous Area.
On October 1, 2018, assumed the post of Governor of the Nenets Autonomous Area.
From April 3, 2020 - Acting Governor of the Arkhangelsk Region.
From October 8, 2020 - Governor of the Arkhangelsk Region.

Born 19 March 1979, in Cheboksary, Chuvash Republic.
1996–2001: studied Jurisprudence at the Moscow Consumer Cooperation University. 2001–2004: Lawyer (private law practice) 2004–2005: Advisor to the Governor of the Ryazan Region and later Head of the Expert Department at the Administration of the President of the Chuvash Republic.
2006–2007: Deputy Director of Construction Department, Head of Support Team for the national project Affordable Housing promoted by the Russian Ministry of Regional Development.
2007–2008: Head of the Directorate for Affordable Housing Market Development at the Federal Agency for Construction, Housing and Utilities. 2008–2011: Chairman of the Management Board, member of the Managing Committee, Director for Legal and Corporate Issues, RSS Plc.
From July 2009: Vice-President of the National Union of Water Utility. 2011–2012: Executive Director of the Socioeconomic and Political Research Institute Fund under the All-Russia People’s Front. Since October 2011: Executive Director of NP Development of Housing and Utilities. Since August 2012: member of the Advisory Panel under the Russian Government and Head of the Working Group for Development of Housing and Utilities under the Advisory Panel of the Russian Government. 6 December 2013: appointed to the position of Deputy Minister of Construction, Housing and Utilities, Russian Federation. 1 October 2014: appointed Chief State Housing Inspector of Russia. December 2015: elected Bureau Member of the UNECE Committee on Housing and Land Management.
21 March 2019: Acting Governor of Murmansk Region

Sergey Shishkarev was born on February 2, 1968, in Novorossiysk. He graduated with honors from the Red Banner Military Institute of the Ministry of Defense and the Russian Presidential Academy of Public Administration. Doctor in law.

In 1993, he founded Delo Group, one of the largest holdings in the transportation services market, and headed the company until 1999. Currently, he is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Delo Group.

From 1999 to 2012, Sergey Shishkarev was three times elected Deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, worked in various committees of the State Duma. He is the author of more than 50 bills.

Since 2015, Sergey Shishkarev has been heading the Russian Handball Federation.

In December 2022, he was elected Vice President of the Russian Olympic Committee, and in March 2023 became a member of the Presidential Council for the Development of Physical Culture and Sports.

Sergey Shishkarev is a member of the Government Commission on Transport.

He actively supports social projects, such as the development of professional and children's sports and demography.

Igor Muraev was born on October 17 in Omsk region.
In 1997, he graduated with honors from the Omsk State Agrarian University with a degree in “Accounting, Control and Analysis of Economic Activities”. In 1997-1998 underwent retraining at the Siberian Academy of Government Administration with a degree in “State and Municipal Administration”.
In 2004, at the Ural State Economic University he defended his thesis on "Formation of a regional market for fuel resources" with the assignment of a PhD in economics.
From 2000 to 2006, he worked at the Ministry of Economy of the Omsk Region, where Igor Muraev went from a leading specialist to the head of the department of the development of industrial and utility infrastructure and public administration reform.
Since 2006, Igor Muraev was appointed Deputy Minister, Head of the Department of Finance and Economics of the Ministry of Construction and Housing and Utilities of the Omsk Region, and since 2008, First Deputy Minister of Construction and Housing and Utility Services of the Omsk Region.
From 2009 to 2012 - Minister of Economy of the Omsk Region.
From 2013 to 2015 - Advisor to the Director of Federal State Budgetary Institution “Roslesinforg” (FSBI “Roslesinforg”).
From 2015 to 2017 - Director of “Zapsiblesproekt” branch (Novosibirsk).
From 2017 - Director of the FSBI “Roslesinforg”.

13 June 1979 (37 yrs)

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Head of SEVER Group, Moscow, Russia
Оperations with demolition of buildings, recycled waste in Russian Federation and CIS: steel scrap, plastic waste, carton waste, glass waste, electornic scrap. $ 50 mln turnover annualy.

Board Member, Murmansk Shipping Company (www.msco.ru)
The oldest and largest shipping company in the Russian Federation for Arctic logistics on the Nothern Sea Route. $50 mln turnover annually.

Board Member, Bank Sputnik, Moscow, Russia (www.banksputnik.com)

Banking and financial operations in Russia and CIS

Public

Business ombudsman of the President of the Russian Federation for environment

Ambassador of Bureau of International Recycling in Russia

Head of the Environmental Committee of Business Russia

Member of Financial Commission of Moscow City

Charity
Founder of Asylum, www.aibolit.ge
Entrepreneur of Theatre “Pevtsov”, www.dmitrypevtsov.ru

WORK EXPERIENCE
PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS, MOSCOW, RUSSIA (www.pwc.ru)
Tax Consultant

2002-2004
EDUCATION
Finance Academy of the Government of the Russian Federation, Banking Business (www.fa.ru) graduated 2002 in Moscow, Russia

PERSONAL
Active traveller, twice visited North Pole, 90 + countries.

Currently holds the position of General Director of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise State Trust Arktiugol.

Tatiana Gromova was born in 1974 in Krasnoyarsk city.
In 1996 she graduated from the Krasnoyarsk State Agrarian University with a degree
in Land Planning.
From 1996 to 2010 she held positions from a leading specialist to the Head of the Committee for Land Resources and Land Management in Krasnoyarsk Region, the Regional Office of the Federal Agency for Real Property Cadastre in Krasnoyarsk Region.
From 2010 to 2011 she worked as a Deputy Head of the Regional Office of the Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography (Rosreestr) in Krasnoyarsk Region.
In March 2011, she was appointed to the position of Head of the Regional Office of Rosreestr in Krasnoyarsk Region.
From 2019 to 2020 she worked as Head of the Regional Office of Rosreestr in Moscow Region.
In January 2020 she was appointed to the position of Advisor to the Head of the Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography (Rosreestr).
By the order of the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation dated February 14, 2022 No. 239-r she was appointed Deputy Head of the Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastrе and Cartography (Rosreestr).

Born November 17, 1987 in Odintsovo, Moscow Region.
2009: graduated with distinction from Odintsovo University in “State and municipal administration”.
Since 2009: Pro-Rector for innovative and scientific development of Odintsovo University;
2010: elected Deputy to the Council of Deputies of the Odintsovo Municipal District;
Since 2012: Chairman of the Public Chamber of the Odintsovo Municipal District. June 12, 2013: co-founded the All-Russia People’s Front.
2013: appointed First Deputy Head of the Odintsovo Municipal District Administration.
September 2014: qualified for the administration team of the Far East by the Agency for Strategic Initiatives and appointed Deputy Director of the Department for the Territorial and Socioeconomic Development of the Ministry for the Development of the Russian Far East.
From December 2015 to October 2016 - Director of the Department for Implementation of Investment Projects of the Ministry for the Development of the Russian Far East. From October 7, 2016 to January 12, 2021, he was Deputy Minister of the Russian Federation for the Development of the Far East.

Pilyasov Aleksandr Nikolaevich was born in 1962 in Magadan. In 1979 he graduated with honors from Secondary School No. 1 in Magadan and entered the Leningrad State University named after A.A. Zhdanov, Faculty of Geography, which he graduated with honors in 1984 and entered graduate school, which he completed by defending his candidate's dissertation in 1987, "Ecological and geographical study of the population of the Kolyma-Magadan industrial region". He was assigned to the North-East Complex Research Institute of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, where he worked for ten years, going from a junior research fellow to the head of the laboratory of environmental economics. In 1995, he defended his doctoral dissertation on "Patterns and Features of the Development of the North-East of Russia". In 1998, he became a professor in the Department of Economics and Management. In 1997, he received an invitation to work at the State Committee for the North of Russia and moved to Moscow, where he was first deputy, then head of the Economic Policy Department, head of the Arctic Department of the State Committee for the North of Russia. After the liquidation of the State Committee for the North of Russia in 2000, he worked for a year at the Academy of National Economy as a professor at the Institute of Oil and Gas Business, after which he received an invitation from Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences A.G. Granberg to work at the Council for the Study of Productive Forces of the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia and the Russian Academy of Sciences; from 2005 to 2017, he was Director of the Center for the Economy of the North and the Arctic. After the liquidation of SOPS in 2017, he created the ANO Institute of Regional Consulting and in 2018 began working at Lomonosov Moscow State University in the Faculty of Geography, where he currently works. He is the author of about 300 articles and 50 books. He has government awards, medals and letters of gratitude from federal and regional executive authorities. Responsible executor and author of dozens of strategies, programs, concepts for the socio-economic development of northern and arctic regions and cities.

Nikolai Kharitonov graduated from the Novosibirsk Agricultural Institute with in agronomics and from the Academy of National Economy under the Government of the Russian Federation. He is a Candidate of Sciences (Econ.).
Director of a state farm, Chairman of AO Galinskoye (Moshkov District of the Novosibirsk Region). Honoured agricultural worker of the Russian Federation. Honoured physical culture worker of the Russian Federation.
He has been elected deputy to the rural and district councils of people’s deputies, deputy to the Novosibirsk Region Council of People’s Deputies, a people’s deputy of the RSFSR; has been a member of the Committee of the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation for social development of rural areas, agrarian issues and food. Nikolai Kharitonov was nominated by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation as President of the Russian Federation in the 2004 election.
Deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of all the six convocations.
Member of the faction of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.
He has been awarded the “Order of Friendship”, medals “For Labour Merit”, “To commemorate the 850th Anniversary of Moscow”, the commemorative anniversary medal and commemorative token of the Chairman of the State Duma “100 Years from the Day the State Duma was Founded in Russia”, Honorary Certificate of the State Duma, badge of honour of the State Duma “For Merits in Developing Parliamentarism”, gold medal “For Contribution to the Development of the Agricultural Complex of Russia”, medal “For Merits to the Novosibirsk Region”.

Career:

• 2007–2012: Editor-in-chief of the social and political magazine Russia United;
• 2009–2019: Deputy of the Municipal Assembly Vladimirsky Municipal District, St. Petersburg;
• 2010–2016: Part-time management positions in marketing and advertising in banking;
• Since March 2016 to June 2019: Russian Export Center, Director of External Communications;
• Since June 2019 to present: Senior Vice President, Director of External Relations Directorate, Promsvyazbank PJSC.

Denis Kravchenko, born April 17, 1976 in Volgograd into a family of engineers.
1999: graduated from St Petersburg State Polytechnical University
2005: postgraduate degree in economics from the same university.
2002: joined government service with the central office of the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament. Held a number of major administrative posts in the United Russia party's parliamentary faction; headed the public relations department of the State Duma's central office.
2002–2003: pro-bono adviser to Russian Interior Minister Boris Gryzlov.
2007: deputy head, State Committee for Youth Affairs, subsequently transformed into the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs.
From 2011: government service at the regional level as a Deputy Governor of Pskov Region, supervised the regional representative office of the Russian government.
March 2014: Deputy General Director, United Rocket and Space Corporation (URSC).
February 2016: promoted to his current position of Senior Deputy General Director and State Secretary at the URSC.
September 2016: became a member of the 7th State Duma. Currently Vice-Chairman, State Duma committee for economic policy, industry, innovative development and entrepreneurship.
Class 2 Full Counsellor of State of the Russian Federation.
Card-carrying member of United Russia since 2003.
Since 2014: member of the Expert Council under the Russian government and of administrative bodies at several Russian defence enterprises.
Incumbent chairman of the Youth Council of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
Holds a number of government and ministerial awards, including a presidential commendation (2007).
In 2016, the Russian dailies Vedomosti and Kommersant named Kravchenko among the top 50 best senior managers in Russia.
Married, with two children; lives in Moscow.

Manager in the sphere of culture and art, organizer of the Northern art festival «Taibola», director of the Taibola Assemble team, project manager and participant of the NGO «Rainbow Snake» and NGO «Taibola», participant of international cultural projects (Sweden, Norway, Finland, Italy), promoter. Winner of the «I am a Citizen» award of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation in the nomination «Best Urban Project» in 2015, laureate of the international Barents scholarship in the field of culture (2019, Umea, Sweden), winner of the «Civil Initiative» award in 2021, laureate of the Russian Geographical Society «Crystal Compass» award (2014, Krasnodar), multiple winner of federal, regional, municipal competitions in the field of culture, youth policy and tourism. The founder and head of the environmental society «Yagrinsky Bor Protection Society» in Severodvinsk, since 2019), the main project of the YBPS, the eco-route «Bolshaya Yagrinskaya Trail», is the winner of the federal competition Russian Traveler Awards, 2024, the Ministry of Construction of the Russian Federation noted this project as the best practice among volunteer and youth associations in the field of territorial development for 2023. Co-founder and director of the family recreation park by the sea «Letniy Bereg» (Severodvinsk, Yagry Island) since 2024.

Field of activity: organization of mass cultural events, open-air festivals, monumental art (wooden sculptures, murals, fire sculptures, etc.), video production (podcasts, films about nature, clips, documentary films, reports), international projects; construction of ecological trails, creation of popular science and educational content (brochures, videos, podcasts, information stands, entrance groups); graphic design and 3D modeling. Organization of interdisciplinary projects (construction, approvals, media promotion, scientific research, fundraising, merch, tourism, work in specially protected natural areas, etc.); lectures, presentations, master classes in Russia and abroad.

Born on May 8, 1979 in Uray Town of the Tyumen Region
In 2001 he graduated from Tyumen State University in “Law” Major
In 2012 he received a degree in “State and Municipal Management” Major

2002 – 2002 - Chief Specialist-lawyer of Regulatory Affairs Department,
Regulatory Affairs Team Leader of Legal and Institutional Staff Management of Tyumen District Administration.
2002 – 2011 - Chief Specialist of Legal Department, Chief Legal Officer of Land Relations, Head of Land Control and Lease Office of Property Relations Department of the Tyumen Region.
2011 – 2014

- Director of Land Resources Department of Tyumen City Administration.
2014 – 2016 Director of Land and Urban Planning Department of Tyumen City Administration.
2016 – 2018 Deputy Mayor of Tyumen City Administration.
Since 2018 Mayor of Tyumen City.
Awarded the Letter of Appreciation of the Russian Federation President, Letter of Acknowledgement of the Chairperson of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Letter of Acknowledgement of the First Deputy Head of the Presidential Executive Office

Elena Marinina graduated from the Faculty of Art History at the Free University of Berlin and the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts.
As deputy CEO of the Roscongress Foundation, she is responsible for organizing work with non-commercial organizations and promoting the social agenda, civil initiatives, and a dialogue between the government, business, and society at major forums held by the Roscongress Foundation.
Elena Marinina’s work as deputy CEO of the Roscongress Foundation and director of the Innosocium Foundation has helped to create a wide range of new socially significant areas of work and create the conditions needed to establish an ecosystem of collaboration with young people, non-commercial organizations, representatives of creative professions, the educational system, and culture. As part of these activities, fundamental issues concerning the development of civil society and social institutions have been steadily integrated into the agenda of the largest business and economic forums.
In 2019, Elena Marinina took over the Innosocium Foundation, the social platform of the Roscongress Foundation, which initiated the agenda for the development of creative industries in Russia and became a partner in major socially oriented projects, including the Creative Business Forum and the Innosocium All-Russian Competition of Communication Social Projects, among other things.
She produces ethnocultural projects at the federal level and handles the operational management of projects as part of the implementation of the Strategy for BRICS Economic Partnership Strategy 2025 and the Action Plan on Innovative Cooperation for 2021–2024.
She is a member of the Council under the Russian Government on Trusteeship Issues in the Social Sphere, a member of the Council of the Eurasian Women’s Forum, a member of the ASI Expert Council, chairwoman of the ASI Working Group on the Development of Creative Industries and Support for Cultural and Historical Heritage Projects, co-chairwoman of the International Cultural Exchange Working Group as part of the BRICS Civil Forum, a member of the national five countries of the BRICS Women’s Business Alliance from Russia, a member of the Russian delegation of the Women 20, and a member of the Organizing Committee of the 22nd Spirit of Fire International Film Debut Festival.

Maria Mikhailenko was born on May 31, 1989, in Murmansk. She graduated from the Murmansk Children’s Art School in 2006. In 2011, she graduated with honors from Murmansk State Humanities University, majoring in Art Education, Technology, and Design. From 2010 to 2019, she taught at the Murmansk Children’s Art School, instructing students in both fundamental art disciplines and computer graphics and design. Since 2019, she has worked as a practicing curator, implementing sociocultural and artistic projects that engage local residents, young artists, and creative teenagers in the Murmansk region. Since 2019, she has also been working as an artist at the Autonomous Non-Profit Organization "Center for Urban Development of the Murmansk Region".
Since 2008, she has been an active participant in local, regional, and international exhibitions and art projects. She curates various art projects, maintains an active exhibition schedule, and participates in initiatives aimed at transforming the urban environment of Murmansk.
Since 2017, she has been a member of the Union of Artists of Russia, and since 2019, she has served as the chairperson of its Murmansk Branch.
She is a recipient of the award from the priority national project "Education" for supporting talented youth (2007 and 2012). She is also a laureate of the Governor of the Murmansk Region Award "For Outstanding Contribution to the Development of Culture and Art" (2017), recognized for her high level of professional skill and personal contribution to the development of visual arts in the Murmansk Region.
She is the curator of the international urban art festival "Rost" (since 2021) and the author and curator of a number of educational and creative initiatives engaging young creative residents of the region (e.g., the "Ekaterininsky Art-boat" project in Polyarny, the "Art Boat" project in Murmansk, and many others). She is involved in organizing activities for several new creative and exhibition spaces in Murmansk, including helping to launch the "21A Center for Contemporary Art." She also collaborates on a regular basis with the Cultural Hub "Container-Hall" in Murmansk, initiating exhibition projects and art initiatives or assisting in their realization.
In 2023–2024, as the curator of the project, she implemented the sociocultural initiative "Contact", initiated by VEB.RF (Russian Development Corporation). This comprehensive project centered around an audio guide about Murmansk, exploring the city through the lens of various art forms.
In her artistic practice, Maria, a graphic artist, works in various printmaking techniques, including linocut, cardboard engraving, and monotype. In addition, she employs a range of other graphic and painting techniques, such as watercolor, oil on coated paper, pastel, ink and pen, oil painting, and mixed media.

Born in 1976 in Krasnovo village, Vladimir Region.
1999: Graduated from Vladimir State University with a degree in legal studies.
2005: Graduated from the Russian School for Private Law under the President of the Russian Federation, Moscow with a master’s degree in private law.
1999–2000: Served in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
2001–2002: Launched his career with legal consulting.
2002–2007: Headed the legal services divisions in several companies in the oil and gas sector, including ZAO Novotek-Holding, Zapsibregiongaz, and VNIIST.
2007–2011: At Gazprom Neft he served as the Chief Legal Advisor, project manager, Head of the Mineral Management Control and Expert Department, Head of the Legal Support for Exploration and Production Department. He managed many company’s legal and corporate projects.
2011: Appointed Deputy General Director for Legal, Corporate and Property Issues, Gazpromneft-Sakhalin.
From 2012 to 2019 - Deputy General Director for Legal, Corporate and Property Issues of Gazprom Neft Shelf LLC

Svetlana Yuryevna Soldatova, Director of the Northern Character Production Center, Murmansk
Svetlana Soldatova was born in Murmansk and her entire life has been connected with the High North. She is a philologist by education, but her passion for telling stories of her native land to a wide range of people led her to work on television at the Murmansk State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company and then to a private TV channel TV-21 where Svetlana worked her way up from a correspondent to the director.
In 2008 together with like-minded colleagues from 4 countries (Russia, Norway, Sweden and Finland), she organized the Northern Character International Film Festival in Murmansk. In 2024 it was held for the 16th time.
Since 2019 she has been creating documentaries and short feature films, organizing film schools, and managing the work of the Murmansk Region Film Production Development Center (this is the operational body of the Murmansk Region Film Commission).
Since 2020 Svetlana has been the Chairperson of the Murmansk Regional Branch of the All-Russian Public Organization Union of Journalists of Russia, Head of the Murmansk Office of the Union of Cinematographers of Russia. Scriptwriter and producer of documentaries and short films set on the Kola Peninsula.

Grigory Solomin is an urban planner, urbanist, and expert in the field of territory development and urban planning.

Managing Partner and co-founder of Novaya Zemlya LLC, one of Russia's leading non-governmental design and consulting organizations in the field of territorial development.

Member of the Expert Council under the Ministry of Construction, Housing and Communal Services of the Russian Federation on creating a comfortable urban environment

Member of the Expert Council under the Commission of the State Council of the Russian Federation on the Northern Sea Route and the Arctic.

Member of the Expert Council of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives for the Promotion of New Projects.

Born in 1976 in Krasnovo village, Vladimir Region.
1999: Graduated from Vladimir State University with a degree in legal studies.
2005: Graduated from the Russian School for Private Law under the President of the Russian Federation, Moscow with a master’s degree in private law.
1999–2000: Served in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
2001–2002: Launched his career with legal consulting.
2002–2007: Headed the legal services divisions in several companies in the oil and gas sector, including ZAO Novotek-Holding, Zapsibregiongaz, and VNIIST.
2007–2011: At Gazprom Neft he served as the Chief Legal Advisor, project manager, Head of the Mineral Management Control and Expert Department, Head of the Legal Support for Exploration and Production Department. He managed many company’s legal and corporate projects.
2011: Appointed Deputy General Director for Legal, Corporate and Property Issues, Gazpromneft-Sakhalin.
From 2012 to 2019 - Deputy General Director for Legal, Corporate and Property Issues of Gazprom Neft Shelf LLC

Deputy Chairperson of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation
Born on 29 June 1950 in the city of Nizhnyaya Salda, Sverdlovsk Region. In 1972, she graduated from the Sergei Kirov Urals Polytechnic Institute with a degree in engineering and economics. PhD in Economics and DSc in Social Sciences, professor. For 20 years she was engaged in teaching and research. Author of over 150 papers on economic, social and political issues.
Since 1990 – delegate, Deputy Speaker (1992–1993) of the Sverdlovsk Regional Parliamentarian Council.
1994–1996 – Deputy of the Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Chairperson of the Federation Council Committee on Social Policy.
1996–1997 – Deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Chairman of the Subcommittee on International Humanitarian, Scientific and Cultural Cooperation of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs.
Since 1997 – Deputy and since 2000 – First Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Affairs of the Russian Federation.
April 2003 – March 2004 – Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation on Social Affairs.
April 2004 – December 2007 – Chairperson of the Social Insurance Fund of the Russian Federation.
On 2 December 2007, she was elected a deputy to the Fifth State Duma, Deputy Speaker of the State Duma Committee on Budget and Taxes.
On 4 December 2011, she was elected a deputy to the Sixth State Duma, First Deputy Chair of the State Duma Committee on Labour, Social Policy and Veteran Affairs.
Since 22 September 2014, she is a Representative of the executive authority of the Voronezh Region in the Federation Council. Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, member of the Federation Council Committee on Social Policy. Initiator and drafter of more than 40 laws, including laws on social protection. Full State Counsellor 1st Class of the Russian Federation. Decorated with state orders and medals.

Born on July 15, 1979 in Moscow.
Education:
Graduated from the Military University attached to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation in 2001.
Graduated from the Moscow Institute of International Business in 2006.
Fluent in English, Greek and French.
Work experience:
1996-2005: Military service.
2005-2008: Worked in various positions at the Department of Foreign Economic Relations, Ministry
of Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation.
2008-2011: Worked in various positions аt the Ministry of Regional Development of the Russian Federation.
2011-2013: Director of the Department of International Relations and Development of Cross-Border Cooperation, Director of the Department for the Coordination of State Industry Programs, Ministry
of Regional Development of the Russian Federation.
2013-2014: Aide to the Minister, Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, Director of the Department for Interaction with Customs Union Authorities and Economic Cooperation with CIS Countries, Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation.
2014-2017: Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation.
Since September 2017 - Acting Governor of Nenets Autonomous Area.
On October 1, 2018, assumed the post of Governor of the Nenets Autonomous Area.
From April 3, 2020 - Acting Governor of the Arkhangelsk Region.
From October 8, 2020 - Governor of the Arkhangelsk Region.

Born on May 8, 1979 in Uray Town of the Tyumen Region
In 2001 he graduated from Tyumen State University in “Law” Major
In 2012 he received a degree in “State and Municipal Management” Major

2002 – 2002 - Chief Specialist-lawyer of Regulatory Affairs Department,
Regulatory Affairs Team Leader of Legal and Institutional Staff Management of Tyumen District Administration.
2002 – 2011 - Chief Specialist of Legal Department, Chief Legal Officer of Land Relations, Head of Land Control and Lease Office of Property Relations Department of the Tyumen Region.
2011 – 2014

- Director of Land Resources Department of Tyumen City Administration.
2014 – 2016 Director of Land and Urban Planning Department of Tyumen City Administration.
2016 – 2018 Deputy Mayor of Tyumen City Administration.
Since 2018 Mayor of Tyumen City.
Awarded the Letter of Appreciation of the Russian Federation President, Letter of Acknowledgement of the Chairperson of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Letter of Acknowledgement of the First Deputy Head of the Presidential Executive Office

Mikhail Rybnikov was born in 1975; he graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University with a master’s degree in economics.

Mikhail has been working at PhosAgro Group enterprises since 1998, rising through the ranks from heading up the financial and economic departments at Group companies to become PhosAgro’s CEO (elected by decision of the Board of Directors on 11 March 2022).

Mikhail has received honours from the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation, the Governor of the Vologda region and the Mayor of Kirovsk, as well as commendations from the Chairman of the Federation Council and the Mayor of Cherepovets. He was also the winner of the open nationwide competition Best Corporate Leaders in the Russian Federation.

Alexey Chekunkov has been the head of the Far East Development Fund since October, 2014.In 2013-2014 Alexey managed his own investment company PAMIR Capital before appointment to the position of the Far East Development Fund Chief Executive Officer. In 2011-2013 he worked as a Director, Member of the Management Board and Investment Committee in the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF). Mr. Chekunkov was responsible for investments in healthcare, energy saving, raw materials sector as well as for establishing of the Russian-Chinese Investment Fund with 2 billion dollars capital. In 2009-2011 Alexey managed his own investment company New Nations Capital (venture capital investments, investment banking). In 2006-2009 he worked in the position of Managing Director in the investment company United Gold Company (UGC), being a part of Alfa-Group consortium.In 2003-2006 he was Vice-President in Delta Private Equity, one of the leading private equity companies in Russia, managing over 500 million dollars capital. He participated in a number of landmark deals including sale of Delta Bank, of TV channels STS and TV-3, of the National Cable Networks holding, of the company Compulink. In 2002-2003 Mr. Chekunkov took part in consolidation of gold-mining assets in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) as the Projects Director in the Investment Group Alrosa. On November 10, 2020, by decree of the President of the Russian Federation, he was appointed Minister of the Russian Federation for the Development of the Far East and the Arctic.

2002 – graduated from the Saint Petersburg State University with a degree in Political Science and Economy, Candidate of Political Science. EXPERIENCE: Earlier Dmitry Yalov held various positions in the Department of Priority National Projects and the Apparatus of the Government of the Russian Federation. 2009-2010 – Acting Minister of Economic Development, Labour, Science and Higher School of Irkutsk region. An expert of the Institute of Socio-Economic and Political Studies. Expert of The Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy. Graduated from Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO. June 2012 – Vice-governor of Leningrad region – Chairman of the Committee for Economic Development and Investment Activity.
October 2015 – Vice-Chairman of the Government of Leningrad region – Chairman of the Committee for Economic Development and Investment Activity.

Born on February 21, 1952, in Tsebrikovo, Odessa Region, Ukraine.
1973 – graduated from the Railway Corps and Military Transport School, Leningrad (now St Petersburg).
1983 – graduated from the Military Logistics Support and Transport Academy with a degree in Railway Engineering.
1973–1976 – served on the Transdnestr Railway in the Odessa Military District.
1976–1980 – served in the South Army Group.
1983–1985 – Military Commandant of a railway section and Urgal station on the Baikal-Amur railway line (BAM).
1984 – took part in driving the Golden Spike, when eastern and western sections of the BAM were linked.
1985–1994 – Section Military Commandant, Head of a Military Transport Department and Deputy Head of Military Transport on the Moscow Railway.
1996–2004 – employed at SeverStalTrans.
1998 – Deputy CEO of SeverStalTrans; supervised the transport engineering sector, railway transport and seaport operations.
March 9, 2004 – appointed Transport and Communications Minister.
May 20, 2004 – appointed Transport Minister.
Since May 21, 2012 – Adviser to the President of the Russian Federation.
Since September 2, 2013 – Aide to the President of the Russian Federation.
Was a member of the Public Council of the Government Commission for the Railway Transport Reform.
Married, with a daughter.

Age: 59 (5th of October 1958)
Married, two daughters and two sons

DP WORLD RUSSIA FZCO, UAE
Board Member/Director General “DP World Russia Ltd”, Moscow

SOCAGEST S.A., SWITZERLAND
DIRECTOR
Project financing, trading, development

Working Experience
1980-1990 Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations of USSR/Russian Federation
1990-1993 Commercial director of JV “Ernst & Young”, Moscow 1993-1997 Head of Board of Directors of “SVA Bank”, Moscow
1998-1999 Board Member of “RESO GUARANTEE”, Moscow 1999-2003 Director of “JKX OIL & GAS” Plc UK, Russia
2003-2006 Head of Board of Directors of “Kolchugino Metallurgic Plant”, Russia
2004-2006 Member of General Counsel of “Delovaya Rossia”, Russia
2014-2018 CRBR Ltd Vietnam, CEO/Partner
1993-now Socagest S.A. Switzerland, Director/Partner
2018-now Board Member DP World Russia FZCO

Education
1975-1983 Moscow State University for Foreign Relations

Graduated from Urals State University of Railway Transport in 2000 in “Organization of transport and management in (railway) transport”, and in 2001 in “Economics and Management in a Railway Enterprise.”
He began his career in 2000 as an officer on duty of the Kurya Station signal tower of Sverdlovsk Railway. He then served as Chaikovskaya Station Master, deputy station master of Perm-Sortirovochnaya, Perm-2 station master, deputy director of the Perm Department of Sverdlovsk Railway, senior deputy director of the Tyumen Department of Sverdlovsk Railway, senior deputy head of transport of Sverdlovsk Railway. He also served in executive positions in the Sverdlovsk and Gorky Traffic Control Directorates, as deputy director for development of the Central Traffic Control Directorate.
Since February 2015, Alexey Shilo has worked as head of the Management Department of the Business Block Railway Transport and Infrastructure at Russian Railways.
Since May 2017, he been Commercial Director of Russian Railways – General Director of the Centre for Corporate Transport Services.

Arctic Blogger No.1. Ambassador of the Arctic and the Far East. Author of the ‘About Travel’ Channel
Bogdan Bulychev – Head of the Centre for the Support and Development of Expeditionary Activities and Tourist Attraction of the RGO Expo Regions, Ambassador of the Arctic, Far East and TOYOTA in Russia. Organizer of international projects that aim to promote and increase tourist flows to regions of the Far East and Arctic.
During the existence of the RGO Expo Expeditionary Centre since 2015, more than 15 major international and Russian expeditions have been conducted with views by more than 350,000,000 people. The RGO Expo team and its head Bogdan Bulychev have become recognizable on virtually every continent in the world. The Arctic-Dixon and North Pole projects were viewed by 198 million and 168 million people, respectively.

Deputy Director for Regional Development at the Information and Analytical Centre of the State Commission for Arctic Development, an autonomous non-profit organization.
Born on 28 May 1989 in Bryansk, Bryansk Region.
Graduated from Bryansk State Technical University in 2011 with two degrees in economics and management, and engineering.
From 2011 to 2013, he worked as an engineer at Bryanskenergo, a branch of MRSK Centre (Rosseti).
Since 2013, he has been involved in regional development in various positions: in the civil service of the Bryansk Region, in the non-profit Monotowns Development Fund (MONOGORODA.RF of the VEB.RF Group), and in the JSC Corporation for Development of the Far East and the Arctic. Since 2020, he has been the Deputy Director for Regional Development of the Information and Analytical Centre of the State Commission for Arctic Development.
He participated in the preparation of several strategic planning documents at the municipal, regional and federal levels, including the preparation of the priority programme of the Russian government’s project “Integrated Development of Monotowns”, the Principles of State Policy of the Russian Federation in the Arctic until 2035, the Strategy of Development and National Security of the Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation until 2035, and the Russian state programme “Social and Economic Development of the Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation”.

Andrei Sokolov was born on February 15, 1976 in Mytishchi, Moscow Region. 1997: graduated from the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics in marketing. 2001 to 2014: worked at the Ministry of the Economic Development of the Russian Federation.2014 to 2015: worked at the Ministry of the Russian Federation for Crimean Affairs.Since December 2015: Assistant General Director of the TASS news agency. Has been involved in the develoment and implementation of the following programmes: Government programme of the Russian Federation “Socioeconomic develoment of the Far East and the Baikal Region”; Government programme of the Russian Federation “Development of the North Caucasus Federal District” for the period up to 2025; Government programme “Accessible environment” for the period from 2011 to 2015; Federal target programme “Economic and social development of the Far East and the Baikal Region for the period up to 2018’; Federal target programme “Socioeconomic develoment of the Kuril Islands (Sakhalin Region) from 2016 to 2025”; Federal target programme “Socioeconomic development of the Republic of Crimea and the City of Sevastopol up to 2020”; Federal target programme “Development of physical culture and sports in the Russian Federation from 2016 to 2020”; Federal target programme “Development of domestic and inbound tourism in the Russian Federation (2011 to 2018)”; Awards: Honourary Certificate of the Ministry for Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation (2004), Honourary Certificate of the Government of the Russian Federation (2009), award pin “For merit” (2011) and others.

Ms. Popova, M.D., has a degree in medicine and prophylactics, professor in medical hygiene.
Worked as an epidemiologist, chief of epidemiology at Budennovsk hospital, chief epidiemologist in State Center in Serpukhov and Pushino, deputy head of Rospoterbnadzor in Moscow oblast, head of HR or Rospoterbnadzor and deputy chief of Rospotrebnadzor .
After a decree of the government of Russian Federation government N1931 temporary acted as chief of Federal Agency for consumer protection and human wellbeing from October 23, 2013.
Following a decree of the government of Russian Federation N571-p appointed head of Rospoterbnadzor.
Married, has two children

Director of Saint-Petersburg Pasteur Institute, Head of the Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, Professor (2003), Corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences (2011), Corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2014), academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences (2016)
Areg A.Totolian was born on 27 December 1958 in Yerevan (Armenia), and moved to Leningrad (Saint-Petersburg) in 1964.
In 1975 he entered the First Pavlov Medical Institute of Leningrad (The First Pavlov State Medical University of St. Petersburg /PSPbGMU) where he worked until 2008. He was trained and acquired his professional experience in the fields of internal diseases, pulmonology and general and clinical laboratory immunology.
In 1986 А. Totolian organized a Clinical Immunology Laboratory run by him until 2000; by authorization of the Ministry of Public Health of the Russian Federation, organized, at the premises of the PSPbGMU, a Research Guidance Centre of the Ministry of Public Health of the Russian Federation for Molecular Medicine (headed by him until 2008).
In 1987 he passed Ph.D. defence on pulmonology and immunology; in 1997 - earned his doctorate in immunology (concerned with the development of approaches and methodology of laboratory immunological diagnosis for diseases at the base of the achievements of fundamental immunology, immunochemical and molecular technologies).
From 1993 to 1995 he received training in infectious immunology at Istituto Superiore di Sanita (Rome, Italy).
For the first time in Russia, under the supervision of A. Totolian, 12 specialized immune programs were developed and since 2002 put into practice of the Federal System for External Quality Assessment of Clinical Laboratory Tests.
Under his direction 27 PhD theses and two doctorate theses were defended dealing with the strategy and methods of laboratory immune diagnosis; He is the author and a co-author of more than 440 research papers and 13 patents.
Since 2008, А. Totolian have been the Deputy Director for Research, the Director of the Laboratory of Molecular Immunology and Seroepidemiology (since 2016 - Laboratory of Molecular Immunology); since 2015 - the Director and interim of the Saint-Petersburg Pasteur Institute.
His main research activities are combined with teaching in PSPbGMU, here since 2013, he has directed the curriculum of clinical immunology and since 2015 has headed the Department of Immunology.
A. Totolian is an independent allergologist and immunologist at the Public Health Committee of the Government of St. Petersburg, Chairman of the Board of the regional office of the Russian Association of Allergologists and Clinical Immunologists in St. Petersburg (since 2017); Member of the Board of Directors of the Russian Scientific Society for Immunology and of All-Russian Scientific Society of Epidemiologists, Microbiologists and Parasitologists; member of the Board the Russian Scientific Society of Clinical Laboratory Diagnosis.
A. Totolian is Editor in Chief of the Infection and Immunity journal, deputy editor-in-chief of the Medical Immunology journal, member of the editorial boards and editorial teams of Clinical laboratory diagnostics, Journal of Microbiology, Epidemiology and Immunobiology, HIV infection and immunosupressions, Molecular Medicine, Cytokines and Inflammation, Russian Journal of Immunology journals.
A. Totolian participated in the establishment of the Department of the Russian Association of Allergologists and Clinical Immunologists in St. Petersburg, initiated and organized the annual (since 1997) All-Russia scientific forum with international participation Days of immunology in St.-Petersburg, and the annual (since 2010) All-Russian scientific school on Clinical Immunology Immunology for physicians in Pushkinskiye Gory (Pskov region).
In accordance with the decision of the Committee on Science and Higher Education of the Government of Saint Petersburg, the team led by A. Totolian was officially registered in 2013 as a scientific school in the field of Medical Immunology and Clinical Laboratory Diagnosis, and included in the Register of the Leading Scientific and Pedagogical Schools of St. Petersburg.
In 2013 А. Totolian received the gold medal from the Russian Scientific Society for Immunology for phenomenal achievements in the field of immunology.
In 2016 А. Totolian became the academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
He is married, has 2 children.

Candidate of Economic Sciences
Associate Professor of the Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University
Member of the Supervisory Board of the Association of Digital Platforms of Russia

In 2017-2022 - Deputy Prime Minister of the Udmurt Republic
Graduate of the program of personnel management reserve
Graduate of the Executive MBA program of the Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO

Born on July 21,1982 in Moscow.
2002
Bachelor’s Degree in Economics, Higher School of Economics.
2004
Master’s Degree in Economics, Higher School of Economics.
2002–2006
Economist, 1st class; Leading Economist; Chief Economist; Sector Head at the Balance of Payments Department at the Central Bank of the Russian Federation (Bank of Russia).
2006–2010
Senior Manager; Director; Managing Director at Rosbank.
2010–2012
Head of the Analytical Unit at Crédit Agricole Corporate & Investment Bank Russia and the CIS.
2012–2013
Chief Economist for Russia at VTB Capital.
2013–2015
Director of the Long-term Strategic Planning Department at the Russian Ministry of Finance.
2013
included in the management personnel pool under the patronage of the President of the Russian Federation.
2015–2016
Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation.
2016–2020
Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation.
2017
Since March 14 – Presidential Special Representative for Trade and Economic Cooperation with Japan.
2018
Chairman of the Board, at the Centre for Strategic Research.
2020
Since January 24 – Aide to the President of the Russian Federation.
Married, with one child.

Alexey Chekunkov has been the head of the Far East Development Fund since October, 2014.In 2013-2014 Alexey managed his own investment company PAMIR Capital before appointment to the position of the Far East Development Fund Chief Executive Officer. In 2011-2013 he worked as a Director, Member of the Management Board and Investment Committee in the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF). Mr. Chekunkov was responsible for investments in healthcare, energy saving, raw materials sector as well as for establishing of the Russian-Chinese Investment Fund with 2 billion dollars capital. In 2009-2011 Alexey managed his own investment company New Nations Capital (venture capital investments, investment banking). In 2006-2009 he worked in the position of Managing Director in the investment company United Gold Company (UGC), being a part of Alfa-Group consortium.In 2003-2006 he was Vice-President in Delta Private Equity, one of the leading private equity companies in Russia, managing over 500 million dollars capital. He participated in a number of landmark deals including sale of Delta Bank, of TV channels STS and TV-3, of the National Cable Networks holding, of the company Compulink. In 2002-2003 Mr. Chekunkov took part in consolidation of gold-mining assets in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) as the Projects Director in the Investment Group Alrosa. On November 10, 2020, by decree of the President of the Russian Federation, he was appointed Minister of the Russian Federation for the Development of the Far East and the Arctic.

She was born on August 11, 1983 in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). Marina was born in international family: her father is a Russian Korean, and her mother is Russian. Marina has an older brother. As a child Marina worked as a model and starred in music videos.
After graduation, she was accepted to St Petersburg State University’s department of International Relations where she studied for 2 years. At the age of 19 Kim moved to Moscow. She graduated from the Moscow State Institute, Department of International Relations with a major in North American Studies.
In 2004 Marina worked as a TV presenter of the economy program Markets on RBC channel. From 2007 to 2013 she worked as the host of news program Vesti and made segments for various Vesti outlets as a correspondent. In 2012 she came in second in the 7th season of Dancing with the Stars. In 2014 she joined Channel One as a presenter at Dobroe Utro.
Ms. Kim moderated multiple round tables at various events including APEC Summit in Vladivostok in 2012, First International Anti-Counterfeit Forum, St Petersburg International Economic Forum.