June 8 - 10, 2022, the VI International Arctic Summit "The Arctic: Prospects, Innovations and Regional Development" was held.
The Summit is timed to coincide with Russia’s chairmanship of the Arctic Council in 2021-2023, the Year of the Cultural Heritage of the Peoples of Russia, the 350th anniversary of Peter the Great the founder of St. Petersburg and the Day of the polar explorer, which is celebrated in Russia annually on May 21 since 2013 at the initiative of the Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for International Cooperation in the Arctic and Antarctic, oceanologist Artur Chilingarov.
On June 8, Svetlana Smirnova, First Deputy Secretary General - Head of the General Secretariat of the Eurasian Peoples' Assembly, spoke at the plenary session "Sustainable Development of the Arctic Zone of Russia: Priority Tasks and their Implementation" at the Moscow Automobile and Highway State Technical University. In the speech, she mentioned the importance of the sustainable development of the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation, as well as the development of the Arctic Council as one of the priorities of the Eurasian Peoples' Assembly.
On June 9, the second day of the Summit was held in St. Petersburg, where Stanislav Korolev, Deputy Secretary General of the Eurasian Peoples’ Assembly, President of the Eurasian Analytical Center, moderated one of the regional meetings “The State Program of the Russian Federation “Social and Economic Development of the Arctic Zone of the Russian Federation.”
The following issues were discussed: interaction between the authorities and subsoil users in the implementation of investment projects, economics and ecology - tasks and solutions that determine the sustainable development of the Arctic region, the well-being and comfort of people living there, technological support for projects in the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation, etc.
The Summit was organized by the Arctic Council of the Eurasian Peoples' Assembly together with the Arctic Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Arctic Oil and Gas Technologies of I.M. Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas and Summit partners - Moscow Automobile and Road Construction State Technical University (MADI) and St. Petersburg State Electrotechnical University with the support of the St. Petersburg Committee for Arctic Affairs, the “Energy and Civil Society” Association, the Union of Oil and Gas Producers of Russia, the National Association of Oil and Gas Chambers of the Russian Federation, the Union of Cities of the Arctic and the Far North, the Association "Composite Cluster of St. Petersburg", the Scientific and Expert Council for the Northwestern Federal District of the Working Group in the field of energy of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation, the Institute for Engineering Physics, MIEP MGIMO, the MKS Group of Companies, as well as leading organizations of the Arctic sector.
The Summit was attended by more than 350 specialists from Russia and neighboring countries (the Republic of Belarus), federal and regional structures, including representatives of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, the Ministry for the Development of the Russian Far East and the Arctic, the Corporation for the Development of the Far East and the Arctic, The Legislative Assembly of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, the administration and deputy corps of the Taimyr Dolgano-Nenetsky Municipal District of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the Government of the Arkhangelsk Region, the Republics of Komi, Karelia and Sakha (Yakutia), the Nenets Autonomous Okrug, the FSO, the Ministry of Education and Science, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia, leading Russian oil and gas and energy companies (Gazprom, Rosneft, Rosatom, etc.), transport, commercial, scientific, service organizations (Inkjet Technologies, Rostelecom, SUPERTEL, Krasnoyarsk Airports, Promsvyazbank, Russian Academy of Education, Eurasian Peoples’ Assembly, National association of builders, the Association of Polar Explorers, the Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East, the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), etc.), universities and more than 50 media representatives.
In order to develop the creative and scientific activity of Russian students and graduate students of leading universities, the traditional Contest of research papers aimed at sustainable development and development of the Arctic was held within the Summit. The Contest Prize Fund was formed by the Summit Directorate and the Silver Sponsor - String Technologies CJSC (Republic of Belarus), an international engineering company in the field of design, construction and maintenance of innovative transport systems: optimal solutions for the cargo-and-passenger infrastructure of the Far North, technologies for developing a network of sea remote ports, autonomous modular stations for comfortable year-round living in northern conditions and unmanned vehicles are the future of air communications. There was made a decision to support the future Contest within the next 7th Summit "Arctic-2023" by the Foundation for Scientific and Technological Development of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug (Ugra).
Within the framework of the Summit, an exhibition of highly efficient technologies and developments of Russian and foreign organizations - participants of the Summit (ZAO "String Technologies" (Republic of Belarus), St. Petersburg State Electrotechnical University ("LETI"), Joint Stock Company "TVEL", Moscow Automobile and Road State Technical University (MADI), St. Petersburg State University of the Fire Service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia, etc.).