Academic Council
The Academic Council of the Society acts in order for the Society to carry out scientific, research, educational, and publishing activities, conduct scientific examinations and research, prepare thematic reports and conclusions on behalf of the Society.
At the XVI Congress of the RGS, which took place on December 1-4, 2020, a new composition of the Academic Council was elected.
Sergei Kuzhugetovich Shoigu
President of the RGS
Nikolai Sergeevich Kasimov
Chairperson of the Academic Council, First Vice-President of the RGS, President of the Faculty of Geography of Lomonosov Moscow State University, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Ilya Anatolyevich Gurov
Academic Secretary of the Academic Council, First Deputy Executive Director of the RGS
Sergei Anatolyevich Dobrolyubov
Dean of the Faculty of Geography of Lomonosov Moscow State University, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kolosov
Vice-President of the RGS, Deputy Director of the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Vladimir Mikhailovich Kotlyakov
Honorary President of the RGS, Scientific Director of the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Artyom Andranikovich Manukyan
First Vice-President of the RGS, Executive Director of the RGS
Vladimir Mikhailovich Razumovsky
Head of the Department of Regional Economics and Environmental Management, Faculty of Humanities, St. Petersburg State University of Economics
Valery Aleksandrovich Tishkov
Academician-Secretary of the History and Philology Department of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Scientific Director of the N.N. Miklukho-Maklai Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Chibilev
Vice-President of the RGS, Chairperson of the Orenburg Regional Branch of the RGS, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Kirill Valentinovich Chistyakov
Vice-President of the RGS, Chairperson of the St. Petersburg Branch of the RGS, Director of the Institute of Earth Sciences of St. Petersburg State University
Kirill Nikolaevich Dyakonov
Head of the Department of Physical Geography and Landscape Studies of the Faculty of Geography of Lomonosov Moscow State University, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Lobzhanidze
Head of the Department of Economics and Social Geography of the Faculty of Geography of Moscow Pedagogical State University
Gennady Grigoryevich Matishov
Scientific Director of the Southern Scientific Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Aleksey Stanislavovich Naumov
Head of the Department of Social-Economic Geography of Foreign Countries of the Faculty of Geography of Lomonosov Moscow State University
Arkady Aleksandrovich Tishkov
Chief Researcher, Head of the Biogeography Laboratory of the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Endon Zhamyanovich Garmaev
Vice-President of the RGS, Chairman of the Republic of Buryatia Branch of the RGS, Director of the Baikal Institute of Nature Management of the Siberian Branch of the RAS, member of the RAS
Andrey Valeryevich Panin
Deputy Director for Research at the Institute of Geography of the RAS, corresponding member of the RAS
Mikhail Viktorovich Slipenchuk
President of the Polar Explorers Association, Head of the Department of Environmental Management at the Faculty of Geography of Lomonosov Moscow State University
Aleksey Nikolaevich Chumachenko
Rector of Chernyshevsky Saratov National Research State University
Andrey Vladimirovich Golovnev
Director of the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) of the RAS, member of the RAS
Natalia Leonidovna Frolova
Head of the Department of Land Hydrology at the Faculty of Geography of Lomonosov Moscow State University, corresponding member of the RAS
Boris Nikolaevich Porfiriev
Scientific Director of the Institute of Economic Forecasting of the Russian Academy of Sciences, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Igor Nikolaevich Vladimirov
Director of the V.B. Sochava Institute of Geography of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Aleksey Germenovich Gvishiani
Scientific Director of the Geophysical Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Mikhail Nikolaevich Zheleznyak
Director of Melnikov Permafrost Institute of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Vladimir Mikhailovich Kattsov
Director of the Voeikov Main Geophysical Observatory
Aleksey Vladimirovich Kuznetsov
Director of the Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Semyon Aleksandrovich Kurolap
Dean of the Faculty of Geography, Geoecology, and Tourism of Voronezh State University
Svetlana Mikhailovna Malkhazova
Head of the Department of Biogeography of the Faculty of Geography of Lomonosov Moscow State University
Vladislav Aleksandrovich Rumyantsev
Scientific Director of the Institute of Limnology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Viktor Petrovich Savinykh
President of the Moscow State University of Geodesy and Cartography, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Dmitry Aleksandrovich Subetto
Dean of the Faculty of Geography of Herzen University
Arnold Kirillovich Tulokhonov
Chairperson of the Republic of Buryatia Branch of the RGS, Scientific Director of the Baikal Institute of Nature Management of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Nikolai Nikolaevich Filatov
Chairperson of the Branch of the RGS in the Republic of Karelia, Chief Researcher at the Northern Water Problems Institute of the Karelian Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Ruslan Grigoryevich Gagkuev
Chairman of the Board of the Russian Historical Society, Executive Director of the History of the Fatherland Foundation
Kirill Sergeevich Ganzei
Director of the Pacific Institute of Geography of the Far Eastern Branch of the RAS, corresponding member of the RAS
Maria Viktorovna Kryukova
Director of the Institute for Water and Environmental Problems of the Siberian Branch of the RAS, corresponding member of the RAS
Nadezhda Kamelevna Maksutova
Chairperson of the Vologda Regional Branch of the RGS, Professor at the Department of Geography and Environmental Management at Vologda State University
Igor Naumovich Rosenberg
Academic Director of the Russian University of Transport, corresponding member of the RAS
Svetlana Gennadievna Sivkova
Chairperson of the Kaliningrad Regional Branch of the RGS, President of the Museum-Reserve "Museum of the World Ocean"
Sergei Sergeevich Sokolov
Rector of the Admiral S. O. Makarov State University of Maritime and Inland Shipping