The event will be held on 13 and 14 March at the Rossiya Segodnya International Multimedia Press Centre and the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration.
The Organising Committee of the 10th International Scientific and Practical Conference «The Far East and the Arctic: Sustainable Development» is headed by Russian Senator Anatoly Shirokov, Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation Committee on Federal Structure, Regional Policy, Local Self-Government and Northern Affairs, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor.
The Ministry for the Development of the Far East and the Arctic, the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the Ministry of Energy, the Ministry of Industry and Trade, and the Ministry of Construction and Housing of the Russian Federation have confirmed the participation of their representatives in the business programme of the Conference.
The agenda includes the implementation of the Northern Sea Route Development Plan for the period until 2035, the development of the transport and logistics infrastructure network for the northern importation, and the development of core areas, including the implementation of master plans for the development of cities and agglomerations in the Far East and the Arctic, the creation of a comfortable urban environment and the use of modern life-support technologies, projects related to the digitalisation of the Far East and Arctic regions, ensuring their energy and food security, attracting investment in the implementation of the Far Eastern and Arctic regions, and the development of the transport and logistics infrastructure network.
One of the key events of the conference business programme will be the awarding of the Annual Award «For the Development of the Far East and the Arctic». This prestigious award was established to promote sustainable development of the Far East and the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation, to implement strategic directions of socio-economic development of the Russian Federation, to search for new innovative technologies, to increase the investment attractiveness of the Far East and Arctic regions of our country, and to preserve the identity of the cultures of the peoples living in the Russian Far East.
The conference will be held with the support and participation of:
- Ministry of the Russian Federation for the Development of the Far East and the Arctic
- Committee of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on federal structure, regional policy, local self-government and northern affairs.
Business programme partner: Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration.
Conference partners: Slavneft-YaNOS PJSC, Sulphotex MADI, Ioffe Institute of Physics and Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Research Centre 'North'.
Round table partners: JSC AKB NOVIKOMBANK, MC Ural Steel, JSC Gazprom Space Systems, VTR ENGINEERING, Association National Association of Builders.
