Governing Council
The Governing Council of the RGS is the standing electoral collegial governing body of the Society in the period between Congresses, whose members are elected by the Congress from among the members of the Society for six years. In addition, the Governing Council of the Society includes the President of the Society, the Honorary President of the Society, and the Executive Director of the Society.
At the XVI Congress of the RGS, which was held December 1-4,2020, new Governing Council of the Society was elected. The first meeting of the new Governing Council was held on December 8,2020. During the meeting, the chair and secretary of the Governing Council were elected.
Yury Leonidovich Vorobyov
Chairman of the Governing Council
Member of the RGS Board of Trustees, Deputy Speaker of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation
Sergei Kuzhugetovich Shoigu
President of the Society, member of the RGS Board of Trustees, Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation
Dmitry Sergeevich Peskov
Chairman of the Media Council of the Society, member of the RGS Board of Trustees, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office of the Russian Federation, Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation
Artyom Andranikovich Manukyan
Vice President of the RGS, Executive Director of the RGS, Secretary of the Governing Council of the Russian Geographical Society
Vladimir Mikhailovich Kotlyakov
Honorary President of the RGS, Chairman of the Council of Elders of the RGS, Scientific Director of the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Nikolai Sergeevich Kasimov
First Vice-President of the RGS, Chairman of the Academic and Expert Councils of the RGS, Chairman of the Moscow Branch of the RGS, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Kolosov
Vice-president of the RGS, member of the Charter Committee of the RGS, Deputy Chairman of the Russian National Committee of the Future Earth International Program under the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Chibilev
Vice-president of the RGS, Chairman of the Orenburg Branch of the RGS, Scientific Director of the Orenburg Federal Research Center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Kirill Valentinovich Chistyakov
Vice-president of the RGS, Chairman of the St. Petersburg Branch of the RGS, Director of the Institute of Earth Sciences of St. Petersburg State University
Anastasia Andreevna Chernobrovina
Advisor to the President of the Russian Geographical Society on Information Policy, Executive Secretary of the Media Council of the RGS, host of the program “Utro Rossii” (eng. "Morning of Russia") on the TV channel "Russia – 1"