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.
Regulations on the Foundation 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)
Yury 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 Nikolaevna Bystrova
Head of the Scientific Library of the Russian Geographical Society
Marina Eduardovna Karpova
Director of the M. Gorky Scientific Library of St. Petersburg State University
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
Maria Fyodorovna Matveeva
Head of the Scientific Archive of the Russian Geographical Society
Egor Valeryevich Orlov
Head of the Cartographic Collection of the Russian Geographical Society
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.
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.
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.