The event was organized on the base of the Faculty of Geology and Geography of Tomsk State University in Khakassia (Malaya Syya, Shirinsky district). The co-organizers were the Department of Geography of TSU, the Russian chapter of the International Association of Landscape Ecology (IALE-Russia), GC "Geoscan" and JSC "Tomskgiprozem", the Tomsk Branch of the Russian Geographical Society and the International Laboratory of Landscape Ecology of the Higher School of Economics.
