‘Arctic: Territory of Dialogue’

Moderator
Vadim Mamontov, Founder, General Director, RussiaDiscovery

Vadim Mamontov

Founder, General Director, RussiaDiscovery

Speakers
Alexey Agafonov, Deputy Director, Russia – Land of Opportunity
Bogdan Bulychev, Traveler, Blogger, Producer
Maxim Dankin,
Alexander Eliseev, Chairman of the Committee for Tourism of the Murmansk Region
Sergey Korlykhanov, Deputy Executive Director, "Russian Geographical Society" All-Russian Public Organization
Anastasia Korol',
Ildar Neverov, General Director, State Trust Arktikugol
Oksana Svetlova, Minister of Culture, Arkhangelsk region

Alexey Agafonov

Deputy Director, Russia – Land of Opportunity

Bogdan Bulychev

Traveler, Blogger, Producer

Arctic Blogger No. 1. Ambassador of the Arctic and the Far East. Author of the ‘About Travel’ Channel
Bogdan Bulychev – Head of the Centre for the Support and Development of Expeditionary Activities and Tourist Attraction of the RGO Expo Regions, Ambassador of the Arctic, Far East and TOYOTA in Russia. Organizer of international projects that aim to promote and increase tourist flows to regions of the Far East and Arctic.
During the existence of the RGO Expo Expeditionary Centre since 2015, more than 15 major international and Russian expeditions have been conducted with views by more than 350,000,000 people. The RGO Expo team and its head Bogdan Bulychev have become recognizable on virtually every continent in the world. The Arctic-Dixon and North Pole projects were viewed by 198 million and 168 million people, respectively.

Maxim Dankin

Deputy Director for Regional Development at the Information and Analytical Centre of the State Commission for Arctic Development, an autonomous non-profit organization.
Born on 28 May 1989 in Bryansk, Bryansk Region.
Graduated from Bryansk State Technical University in 2011 with two degrees in economics and management, and engineering.
From 2011 to 2013, he worked as an engineer at Bryanskenergo, a branch of MRSK Centre (Rosseti).
Since 2013, he has been involved in regional development in various positions: in the civil service of the Bryansk Region, in the non-profit Monotowns Development Fund (MONOGORODA.RF of the VEB.RF Group), and in the JSC Corporation for Development of the Far East and the Arctic. Since 2020, he has been the Deputy Director for Regional Development of the Information and Analytical Centre of the State Commission for Arctic Development.
He participated in the preparation of several strategic planning documents at the municipal, regional and federal levels, including the preparation of the priority programme of the Russian government’s project “Integrated Development of Monotowns”, the Principles of State Policy of the Russian Federation in the Arctic until 2035, the Strategy of Development and National Security of the Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation until 2035, and the Russian state programme “Social and Economic Development of the Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation”.

Sergey Korlykhanov

Deputy Executive Director, "Russian Geographical Society" All-Russian Public Organization

Ildar Neverov

General Director, State Trust Arktikugol

13 June 1979 (37 yrs)

Current projects сommercial

Head of SEVER Group, Moscow, Russia
Оperations with demolition of buildings, recycled waste in Russian Federation and CIS: steel scrap, plastic waste, carton waste, glass waste, electornic scrap. $ 50 mln turnover annualy.

Board Member, Murmansk Shipping Company (www.msco.ru)
The oldest and largest shipping company in the Russian Federation for Arctic logistics on the Nothern Sea Route. $50 mln turnover annually.

Board Member, Bank Sputnik, Moscow, Russia (www.banksputnik.com)

Banking and financial operations in Russia and CIS

Public

Business ombudsman of the President of the Russian Federation for environment

Ambassador of Bureau of International Recycling in Russia

Head of the Environmental Committee of Business Russia

Member of Financial Commission of Moscow City

Charity
Founder of Asylum, www.aibolit.ge
Entrepreneur of Theatre “Pevtsov”, www.dmitrypevtsov.ru

WORK EXPERIENCE
PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS, MOSCOW, RUSSIA (www.pwc.ru)
Tax Consultant

2002-2004
EDUCATION
Finance Academy of the Government of the Russian Federation, Banking Business (www.fa.ru) graduated 2002 in Moscow, Russia

PERSONAL
Active traveller, twice visited North Pole, 90 + countries.