Executive Directorate

Artyom Andranikovich Manukyan

Vice President of the RGS, Executive Director, Secretary of the Governing Council

Presides over activities of the Executive Directorate The following departments are reporting directly to the Executive Director: the Document Management and Archives Department; Legal Department; Financial Department; Organization, Protocol, and Exhibition Activities Department

Sergei Vasilyevich Korlykhanov

First Deputy Executive Director

The following departments are reporting directly to the First Deputy Executive Director: the Regional Development Department, Expeditionary Activity and Tourism Development, Youth Work Department

Ilya Anatolyevich Gurov

First Deputy Executive Director

The following departments are reporting directly to the First Deputy Executive Director: the Expert Analytics and International Affairs Department, as well as St. Petersburg Headquarters of the RGS in terms of scientific, collections, and other work

Mikhail Vladimirovich Vorobyov

Deputy Executive Director

The following departments are reporting directly to the Deputy Executive Director: the Operations Department, as well as St. Petersburg Headquarters of the RGS in terms of work related to administrative and facility support

Aleksandr Sergeevich Galushka

Adviser to the President of the RGS

Anastasia Andreevna Chernobrovina

Adviser to the President of the RGS on Information Policy

The following departments are reporting directly to the Adviser to the President of the RGS on Information Policy: the Information and Media Support Department

Ekaterina Vladimirovna Podkovyrina

Director of the Department

Responsible for the formation and implementation of information and PR strategy of the Society in mass media, the Internet and social networks as well as for the implementation of the Department's media projects: the contests “The Most Beautiful Country” and ”The Best Guide of Russia"

Valeria Igorevna Vitvitskaya

Deputy Director of the Department

Pyotr Yuryevich Gladyshev

Director of the Department

Responsible for material and technical support of the Russian Geographical Society’s events

Mikhail Borisovich Baranov

Deputy Director of the Department

Responsible for material and technical support of the Russian Geographical Society's events

Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Melchakova

Deputy Director of the Department

Responsible for the souvenir direction of work, organization of the work of the official store of the RGS, and the loyalty program of the RGS

Aleksandr Vladimirovich Karandeev

Director of the Department

Responsible for the implementation of the publishing activities of the Society, conducting the international educational campaign "Geographical Dictation", preparing information, reference, and analytical materials, organizing the work of the library at the Headquarters of the Society in Moscow, scientific and methodological support, and filling the Geoportal of the Society

Svetlana Andreevna Vorobyova

Deputy Director of the Department

Responsible for the development of international connections of the Society, organization of the preparation and implementation of the international projects of the Society

Elena Yurievna Ryzhonkova

Head of the Grants Division

Responsible for support of grant projects of the RGS

Yana Yurievna Fedosova

Director of the Department

Responsible for the development of the youth movement of the RGS and the formation of the volunteer corps of the Society, coordinates the work of the network of youth clubs of the RGS

Daria Nikolaevna Kabanova

Deputy Director of the Department

Responsible for the development of the youth movement of the RGS and the formation of the volunteer corps of the Society, coordinates the work of the network of youth clubs of the RGS

Anastasia Aleksandrovna Kadrgulova

Director of the Department

Responsible for organizing and holding exhibitions, festivals, thematic days of the Russian Geographical Society, and other projects and events, including those with heads of the Society

Olga Mikhailovna Moksheva

Deputy Director of the Department

Responsible for organizing and holding exhibitions, festivals, thematic days of the Russian Geographical Society, and other projects and events, including those with heads of the Society

Artur Albertovich Latypov

Director of the Department

Coordinates activities of regional branches of the Russian Geographical Society, provides interaction between regional branches and governing bodies, structural subdivisions of the Executive Directorate, commissions and councils of the Society

Vera Aleksandrovna Maksimchuk

Deputy Director of the Department

Coordinates activities of regional branches of the Russian Geographical Society, provides interaction between regional branches and governing bodies, structural subdivisions of the Executive Directorate, commissions and councils of the Society

Natalya Yurievna Belyakova

Director of the Department

Responsible for expedition activities, organizing and conducting scientific, complex, research, environmental, educational, cultural, tourist and other RGS expeditions as well as for providing tourism development activities

Angelika Igorevna Chaikova

Deputy Director of the Department

Responsible for expeditionary activities and tourism development activities

Sergei Anatolyevich Chechulin

Head of the Expeditionary Division

Responsible for expeditionary activities, organizing and holding scientific, research, environmental, educational, cultural, tourist and other expeditions of the Russian Geographical Society

Anastasia Nikolaevna Suchkova

Director of the Department

Responsible for legal support of all legal matters of the Russian Geographical Society and legal protection of its interests

Madina Ruslanovna Korigova

Deputy Director of the Department

Responsible for legal support of legal matters of the Russian Geographical Society

Sergei Aleksandrovich Bloschuk

Director of the Department

Controls state, movement, and targeted use of funds, financial and operating results, responsible for accounting and fulfillment of tax obligations of the Russian Geographical Society

Lyubov Vladimirovna Sipailo

Deputy Director of the Department

Lyubov Borisovna Kalinchuk

Deputy Director of the Department

Roman Vladimirovich Ryabintsev

Director of the Department

Responsible for coordinating the activities of the St. Petersburg Headquarters of the RGS as well as research, maintenance, and support of the Society's collections.