Olga Shtele

On May 23-24, an All-Russian Scientific Conference "Urban Environment Transformation: New Trends and Old Problems" was held in Kaluga, organized by Kaluga State University named after K.E. Tsiolkovski and Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences (INION RAN). Pavel Shulgin, the project leader of Human Capital Multidisciplinary Research Center, the head of the Centre for Regional Programs of Social and Cultural Development, and Olga Shtele, the leading expert of the Center, presented their report on the mapping of territories in order to preserve cultural heritage.

The VIII International Forum of Literary Museums was held in the State Memorial Historical, Literary and Natural Landscape Museum-Reserve of A.S. Pushkin "Mikhailovskoye" (Pushkin Reserve) in the Pskov region from October 5 to 9.

Employees of the Centre for Regional Programmes of Social and Cultural Development Pavel Shulgin and Olga Shtele participated in the preparation of this nomination

From September 11 to 15, Yekaterinburg hosted the Fifth Economic Congress organized by the New Economic Association. More than 1,500 scientists from 75 universities and 37 institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences took part in REC-2023, which is more than 180 organizations in total.

From December 5-8, 2022, Kazan hosted an international forum dedicated to the UNESCO Convention on the Protection of Cultural and Natural Heritage 50’s anniversary. The Convention has become an important stage in recognizing the world heritage value and uniting all countries supporting this idea. A World Heritage List is being compiled under the auspices of UNESCO, which already includes 1,154 objects of cultural and natural heritage from all around the world. Participants from 56 countries of the world discussed the management of World Cultural Heritage Sites, environmental management and conservation of the World Natural Heritage. A total of 10 scientific conferences were held within the forum.

On June 15, an All-Russian conference "Modern problems of studying and protecting cultural and natural heritage" was held in Moscow, at the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The conference started with a report "Comprehensive regional programs for the preservation and use of heritage (new approaches and practical experience of recent years)" by the head of the Centre for Regional Programs of Social and Cultural Development, Pavel Shulgin.

On May 21-22, the International Conference VII Semenov Readings "The Legacy of Piotr Semenov-Tyan-Shansky and Modern Science" was held in Lipetsk, in the scientist's homeland in the Ryazanka estate of the Lipetsk region. The head of the Centre for Regional Programs of Social and Cultural Development Pavel Shulgin and the leading expert of the Centre Olga Shtele presented a joint report under the topic "The concept of creation and development of the Federal museum-reserve "The Homeland of Piotr Semenov-Tyan-Shansky"".

On April 25, the first scientific and practical conference of the United Memorial Museum-Reserve of Yuri Gagarin was held in Gagarin, Smolensk region (formerly Gzhatsk). At the plenary part of the conference the head of the Centre for Regional Programs of Social and Cultural Development Pavel Shulgin and the leading expert of the Centre Olga Shtele presented a joint report on the topic "Experience in using cultural heritage in historical rural settlements".

For the first time, a map of the historical and cultural heritage of Yalutorovsk, a small historical town located in the south of the Tyumen region, has been published.

On December 15, Yerevan hosted the second "Metsamorian Readings– - an international conference dedicated to the problems of the development of museum-reserves. Within the framework of this forum a joint on-line report was presented by the head of the Centre for Regional Programmes of Social and Cultural Development of the Institute for Social Policy Pavel Shulgin, and the leading expert of the center, Olga Shtele "Museums-reserves as the basis of the cultural framework in Russian regions".

On November 26, Tyumen Industrial University held a scientific and practical on-line interuniversity conference "Heritage as the Driver of Socio-Economic Development of Regions of the Tyumen Oblast". The conference summed up the results of the project "Architectural Image of the Region", which is being implemented at the University Institute of Architecture and Design.

The round table Cooperation of the University, Local Museums and Local Communities as a Way to Promote Cultural Heritage, held on December 19, was organized by the National Research University "Higher school of Economics". Heads of departments of culture and cultural heritage of Moscow, directors of Moscow museums promoting the history of the city, publishers of literature on Moscow studies, specialists of the Higher School of Economics were invited to it.

The international forum "Astronomy and the World Heritage” under the auspices of UNESCO, was held in Kazan from 2 to 5 December.

On November 28, Tyumen Industrial University hosted a scientific conference "Embedding Cultural Heritage in Economic Reality", which was held within the framework of the project "Architectural Image of the Region".

On September 28, 2019, St. Petersburg hosted the Festival "Culture 4.0. Economy and Culture". This edition was mainly focused on the Theater as 2019 being declared the Year of Theaters in Russia. The Festival program included as well a scientific conference which discussed economic and socio-cultural aspects of the theater.

On August 20, 2019, the one-day workshop held by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Tatarstan was devoted to "Modern Strategies for Cultural Policy and their Impact on the Socio-economic Development of Regions". The workshop was assured by the team the Centre for Regional Programmes of Social and Cultural Development of the Institute for Social Policy.

On September 10, the Federation Council, the upper House of the Federal Assembly, the Russian Parliament, held a meeting of the Scientific Expert Council for Historical Settlements. It discussed the creation of a list of historical settlements, their comprehensive development and the improvement of their investment attraction.

On September 4-7, 2018, a UNESCO Forum on Intercultural Dialog was held in Kazan. The forum united the scientists and public figures from several dozens of countries. The major topic of the forum was the protection of the world heritage as an important part of the intercultural communication.