
Council of Elders
The Council of Elders of the RGS acts to preserve the traditions and heritage of the Society, the continuity of the generations of the RGS. The Council is headed by the Chairman: Honorary President of the Society. The competence of the Council of Elders of the Society includes: the development of proposals on the main activities of the RGS in the development of geography and related fields of knowledge; resolution of disputes between members and structural divisions of the Society; sending proposals on the publication of scientific, pedagogical, and other works in the publications of the Society, and others.
Regulations on the Council of Elders
Vladimir Mikhailovich Kotlyakov
Chairman of the Council
Honorary President of the Society, Scientific Director of the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Vladimir Mikhailovich Razumovsky
Deputy Chairman of the Council
Head of the Department of Regional Economics and Environmental Management of the Faculty of Humanities of St. Petersburg State University of Economics, professor, Doctor of Geographical Sciences

Nikolai Ivanovich Koronkevich
Deputy Chairman of the Council
Honorary member of the Society

Yury Petrovich Badenkov
Moscow

Boris Aleksandrovich Voronov
Khabarovsk

Kirill Nikolaevich Dyakonov
Moscow

Yury Vasilyevich Efremov
Krasnodar

Leonid Markusovich Korytny
Irkutsk

Valery Vladimirovich Lukin
St. Petersburg

Leonid Aleksandrovich Plastinin
Irkutsk

Aleksei Vladimirovich Postnikov
Moscow

Arkady Aleksandrovich Tishkov
Moscow

Arnold Kirillovich Tulokhonov
Ulan-Ude