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The gradual process of transforming the urban environment, which began in major and regional-level cities, has developed over time to encompass industrial and smaller conurbations. The regeneration of public spaces not only changes a city’s image and reception among its citizens, but also drives improvements in quality of life, the development of SMEs and the arrival of new urban services, while helping to reduce population flight. Such conditions generate further opportunities for industrial cities, allowing them to attract the attention of tourists who are better able to access a unique site of industrial heritage and learn the cultural traditions of the region itself. What role can main employers in one-company cities play in these processes? What principles should the development of the urban environment in industrial cities be based on?

Moderator
Sergey Kapkov, Head of the Centre for Culture Economy, Urban Development and Creative Industries Research, Faculty of Economics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Sergey Kapkov

Head of the Centre for Culture Economy, Urban Development and Creative Industries Research, Faculty of Economics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

Born 10 December 1975 in Gorky.
1998: graduated from the State and Municipal Administration Department of the Volgo-Vyatka Academy of Public Service.
1998–2001: сontinued post-graduate studies at the Volgo-Vyatka Academy of Public Service in the field of Social Philosophy.
2001–2003: Deputy Governor of the Chukotka Autonomous District, Head of the Chukotka Autonomous District Department of Culture, Youth, Sports, Tourism and Information Policy; was a government memberof the Chukotka Autonomous District.
In December 2003, Sergei Kapkov was elected to the Fourth State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation (member of the Committee on Civil, Criminal, Arbitration and Procedural Law).
June 2004 to 2014: Chairman of the Board of the National Football Academy Foundation.
April 2006 to 2014: Vice President, Russian Football Union.
In December 2007, he was elected to the Fifth State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation (Senior Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Information Policy, Information Technology and Telecommunications).
In March 2011, he resigned from the State Duma after being appointed Director of the Moscow City Management Company M. Gorky Central Park of Culture and Recreation.
In August 2011, he was appointed Deputy Head of Moscow’s Department of Culture and promoted to Department Head in September 2011.
May 2012 to March 2015: Minister of the Government of Moscow, Head of Moscow’s Department of Culture.
Since September 2015: Head of the Research and Study Laboratory Centre for Research into the Economics of Culture, Urban Development and Creative Industries at the Moscow State University Department of Economics.

Panellists
Dmitry Peskov, Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation on Digital and Technological Development
Alisa Prudnikova, Commissioner, Ural Industrial Bienniale of Contemporary Art
Roman Starovoyt, Governor of Kursk Region
Valery Falkov, Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation
Pavel Shilyaev, Chief Executive Officer, Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works
Nazim Efendiev, Chief Executive Officer, Management Company METALLOINVEST

Dmitry Peskov

Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation on Digital and Technological Development

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Alisa Prudnikova

Commissioner, Ural Industrial Bienniale of Contemporary Art

Director for Regional Development of the ROSIZO’s National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA), Commissioner of the NEMOSKVA project, Commissioner and Artistic Director of the Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art. Art historian and curator Alisa Prudnikova is one of Russia’s leading specialists in regional art and art industries. From 2005 to 2016, she headed the Urals branch of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts; during that time Ekaterinburg became one of Russia’s most important centres of modern art and was ranked in Russia and abroad as one of the country’s main creative centres. In 2016, Alisa Prudnikova became a board member at the International Biennial Association (IBA), which includes the world’s leading biennials. She is a member of the ICOM and AICA associations, and the two-times recipient of the Innovation national award in the field of contemporary art.

Roman Starovoyt

Governor of Kursk Region

Born on January 20, 1972 in Kursk. 1995 - graduated from D.F. Ustinov “Voenmeh” Baltic State Technical University (St. Petersburg), majored in impulse heat engines. 2008 - graduated from the Russian Federation Presidential North-West Academy of Public Administration, majored in state and municipal government. Class 1 Active State Advisor of the Russian Federation. 1995 - CEO at “Regionalnoe Investicionnoye Agentstvo” OJSC (“Regional Investment Agency”). 1995-2001 - Director General of “Promyshlennyi” non-state pension plan asset management company. 2002-2005 - CEO at construction company “Stroyinvest” LLC. 2005-2010 - worked in the Committee on Investments and Strategic Projects of the Government of St. Petersburg. 2010-2012 - Deputy Director of Industry and Infrastructure Department of the Central Office of the Government of the Russian Federation. From November 2012 - Head of the Federal Road Agency. Awards: In 2012 was awarded an honor credential of the Government of Russia, Gratitude of the President of the Russian Federation, in 2014 - by the medal of honor. Married, 2 daughters. October 11, 2018 by the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation, the Acting Governor of the Kursk Region. September 8, 2019, elected Governor of the Kursk Region. On September 16, 2019, he took office as Governor of the Kursk Region.

Valery Falkov

Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation

Born 18 October 1978 in Tyumen, Russia.
1995–2003 – Studied Law at the University of Tyumen, PhD in Law.
2003–2012 – Occupied various positions (Department Head, Deputy Director of the Institute of State and Law, Vice-Rector for Additional Education, Director of the Institute of Law, Economics, and Management) at the University of Tyumen.
2012–2020 – Rector of the University of Tyumen.
2006–2013 – Member of the Tyumen Region Election Commission with a casting vote.
2009–2011 – Chairman of the Tyumen Region Council of Young Scholars and Specialists.
2013–2016 – Deputy of the Tyumen City Duma, Chairman of the Standing Commission for Urban Development and Land Use.
2016–2020 – Deputy of the Tyumen Regional Duma, Chairman of the Committee on Social Policy.
2015–2020 – Council of University Rectors of Tyumen Region.
21 January 2020 – Appointed Minister of Science and Higher Education by the President of the Russian Federation.
Awards and Honours:
Certificate of Honour from the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation (2003); Tyumen Regional Duma Honorary Badge (2009); Certificate of Honour from the Governor of Tyumen Region (2013); Diploma from the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of Russian Federation (2014); Certificate of Appreciation from the Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Ural Federal District (2015); Certificate of Appreciation from the Chairman of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation (2017).

Nazim Efendiev

Chief Executive Officer, Management Company METALLOINVEST

Graduate of the Military Institute of Foreign Languages, the Academy of National Economy (MBA programme) and Kingston University in the UK (specialised international management programme), and completed the advanced management programme at IESE Business School of the University of Navarra.

Since April 2020 - Chief Executive Officer of Management Company METALLOINVEST LLC
03.2012 - 05.2020 - First Deputy CEO, Sales Director of Management Company METALLOINVEST LLC
2011- 2012 - Deputy CEO, Government Relations Director of Management Company METALLOINVEST LLC
2010 - 2011 - Managing Director at Ural Steel JSC
2009 - Chairman of the Board of Directors of JSC Uralmash Machine-Building Corporation JSC
2007- 2009 - CEO of Uralmash Machine-Building Corporation JSC
2007- CEO of Uralmashzavod JSC
2006- 2007 - Executive Director of Management Company METALLOINVEST LLC
2004- 2006 - CEO of Ural Steel JSC
2002 - 2004 – Marketing Director at NOSTA JSC (Ural Steel JSC)
1996 - 2002 – Worked at Siberian Aluminium, as the Deputy Commercial Director of the Sayan Aluminium Plant, the Director of the Trading House of Samara Metallurgical Plant, Chief of the rolling division at Russian Aluminium

Recipient of the title of Honorary Metallurgist (2014), the Badge of Honour for Labour and the Fatherland (2015), the Medal for Merit to the Fatherland 2nd Class (2017), a letter of appreciation from the Governor of the Belgorod region (2019), the medal "300 Years of the College of Mining of Russia" (2019).