Lectures

The Moscow Lecture Hall of the Russian Geographical Society opened its doors in March 2011. Not considering the lecture halls of some of the regional branches, it became the third biggest lecture hall after the Yu. M. Shokalsky Lecture Hall in St. Petersburg and the lecture hall of the Moscow Branch of the Society (Staromonetny Pereulok, 29, in the building of the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences). 

With its state-of-the-art equipment and the capacity of 65 people, the lecture hall has everything necessary to hold various events: lectures, master classes, film screenings, seminars, round tables, press conferences, intellectual games.

The Yu.M. Shokalsky Central Lecture Hall is one of the oldest in the city. The lecture hall was opened in the main building of the Society in 1938. At its opening on November 10, Honorary President of the Geographical Society of the USSR, Honorary Member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR Yuly Mikhailovich Shokalsky (after whom the lecture hall was later named) gave a lecture about a traveler and scientist Yu.M. Shokalsky.