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Gazprom has become a strategic partner of the Kino Expo forum and exhibition

webmaster@lenexpo.ru (webmaster@lenexpo.ru) — 11 May 2012 16:57:44 GMT

In April 2012, Gazprom became the strategic partner of the Kino Expo, one of the world largest cinema forums. The cooperation was destined to assist the development of national film industry and the world market promotion of national cinematography.

Supported by the Ministry of Culture of Russia, the Kino expo forum and exhibition are principal events of Russian film industry, the CIS countries and the Baltic states.They are among three largest world events in the film business sector. The event has been hold in Lenexpo Exhibition Complex since 2006. The Kino Expo forum and exhibition will take place in new ExpoForum Convention and Exhibition Centre after 2014.

According to ExpoForum Executive Director, Lenexpo General Director Sergey Voronkov, the infrastructure of the Convention and Exhibition Centre will have the best conditions to hold the KinoExpo on the permanent basis in Saint Petersburg: ”A complex infrastructure is needed for the KinoExpo. Apart from the exhibition spaces, it’s necessary to have a large cinema, a convention centre, hotels, and a convenient transport system. The combination of the factors makes the ExpoForum an ideal venue corresponding with the best world standards. The film presentation at the Kino Expo will be organised in an amphitheatre with 1,000 seats equipped with all necessary items for a comfort show. The guests and the participants of the event will be able to stay at two hotels which will be open at the first stage of building the complex in 2014 and will be supervised by the hotel operator Hilton”.

The director of the Kino Expo forum and exhibition, of Russian cinemas organisation “Community of national cinema and theatre organisations "Kinoalyans” Dmitry Kazuto has commented the strategic partnership with Gazprom as follows: “This is a significant landmark in the development of Kino Expo forum and exhibition. The Gazprom’s support of the Kino Expo performance in ExpoForum Convention and Exhibition Centre provides the film industry with a well-defined and clear prospective of future development of the forum and exhibition, and the strategic planning possibility.Even now, the Kino Expo is one of the main events of the world film industry. Our cooperation will enable implementing the plan of development of the forum and exhibition in compliance with which the Kino Expo will become a centre of presentation of Russian movies to the entire world cinema community”.

ExpoForum has helped the citizens of Pushkin in reconstruction of family history

webmaster@lenexpo.ru (webmaster@lenexpo.ru) — 11 May 2012 16:31:44 GMT

About 70 citizens of Pushkin addressed the staff of the archive of the Military Medicine Museum in order to learn the fate of their relatives who had been lost during the Great Patriotic War. The charitable action devoted to the Victory Day was arranged by ExpoForum jointly with the Military Medicine Museum and the administration of Pushkin Region.

The temporary public office of the archive of the Military Medicine Museum was working in Pushkin on May 7 and 8. In the office, there were stored the materials related to the Great Patriotic War. In the improvised reception room organised in a minibus provided by ExpoForum, there were archive specialists. They were receiving requests, giving consultations on dealing with the archives to all who have addressed them. The visitors were generally grandsons and great grandsons of those who had defended in vicious fights Russian present peaceful days.

The action enabled the citizens to learn more about their relatives and friends who had been killed or missing during the fights of the Great Patriotic War. Without leaving the town they could learn the places of their graves. Totally, over 50 requests have been executed. The citizens whose questions could not be answered by the specialists of the archive of the Military Medicine Museum got the addresses of the archives with the data needed as well as recommendations on making requests.

Within a month the archivists will be processing the requests received during the days of the action. The information will be provided to the relatives as early as in June.

The charitable action is of particular importance for ExpoForum. The company is a developer of the construction project of an international convention and exhibition centre in the area of Shushary settlement with the legendary military historical border. It’s in this place that the united forces of Leningrad had halted the attack of the fascist invaders against Leningrad in 1941. Then Leningrad front troops began an attack in January 1944. As a result, Pushkin was liberated and the blockade of Leningrad was lifted.

The Children’s Day was held within the Hipposphere exhibition

webmaster@lenexpo.ru (webmaster@lenexpo.ru) — 11 May 2012 16:28:23 GMT

Over 70 foster children from orphanages of Saint Petersburg and the Leningrad Region visited the horse exhibition Hipposphere on Sunday, May 6.

The groups of children at the age of 9 to 18 from the orphanages of Kingisepp, Petrodvorets, the Volosovsky Region, and also from Saint Petersburg came to see the spectacular show. The event programme included the breed rings where there were presented not only Shetland ponies demonstrating the training elements, but also the Appaloosa ponies spotty like Dalmatians, Welsh ponies which have been recognised as the world best ponies for children's sports, and the tiniest racers – the diminutive horses. The visitors’ attention was completely attracted to the unusual show with the participation of ponies of all breeds, the honoured guest of which was the famous singer and the pony owner Larisa Lusta.

The Museum of the Orlov Trotter and Russian Troika arranged for the children’s groups an excursion including a visit to the stables where the museum director Inna Ivleva told the history of the horse breeding in Russia. The partner of the exhibition Chateau Jardin de Fleurs provided each child with a souvenir gift.

«Zoosphere» at «Interzoo».

zoosphere@lenexpo.ru (zoosphere@lenexpo.ru) — 11 May 2012 11:46:20 GMT

Zoosphere exhibition will take part in the largest international exhibition of goods and services for pets Interzoo-2012 on MAY 17-20 . The exhibition will be traditionaly held in Nurnberg, Germany.

Our team will make a presentation of the project at our stand 7-133 and conduct negotiations with CEOs of foreign companies - leaders of the pet-industry.

Wellcome to our stand 7-133, hall 7!

Saint-Petersburg international book salon 2012. Post-release

webmaster@lenexpo.ru (webmaster@lenexpo.ru) — 10 May 2012 15:17:10 GMT

THE VII SAINT-PETERSBURG INTERNATIONAL BOOK SALON SUMS UP THE RESULTS

From April 26 to April 29 in Lenexpo Saint-Petersburg International Book Salon’2012 passed and brought together modern Russian and foreign writers, authority representatives, book market specialists, scientists and of course, the real fans of reading. The forum was visited by more than 16 thousand people, about 250 events passed within its network. More than 250 firms from 13 countries of the world presented their products.

The Governor of St. Petersburg Georgy Poltavchenko, the Chairman of Audit Chamber of the RF, the President of the Russian Book Union Sergey Stepashin, the Deputy Head of the Federal Agency for Print and Mass Media Vladimir Grigoriev, the Executive Director of ExpoForum JSC, the General Director of Lenexpo Sergey Voronkov and other guests of honour took part in the official opening ceremony.

According to the Governor of St. Petersburg Georgy Poltavchenko, St. Petersburg is not only the cultural capital of Russia, but also the most literate city. The government of St. Petersburg regularly supports both the young authors and the skilled writers. "This year we are planning to direct 21 million rubles to the publication of books by St. Petersburg writers so that young and demanded writers had the possibility to bring their works to readers", he noted.

Exhibition

In the exposition of the Book Salon, there were about 250 participants from Armenia, Belarus, Hungary, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Russia, USA, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and France. The most imposant stands belonged to the publishing group and the trading house Azbooka-Atticus, the Association of Book Trade Enterprises, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Armenia, the Hungarian Cultural, Scientific and Information Centre of Institute of Balashshi, the Consulate General of the USA in St. Petersburg, the book network Bukvoed and many others.

The company Abris-SPb which represents the publishing houses Prosvescheniye and Drofa in Northwest Russia has been participating in the Book Salon for 7 years, and this time presented some new books for teachers. According to the employee of the company Maria Ivanova, the exhibition met the expectations: the experts reached the target audience, held presentations of new books and visited interesting actions of the business programme. “We will certainly participate next year!”, she concluded.

The forum of this year was also marked by a large-scale entertainment programme with meetings with the Booker Prize 2010 winner Howard Jacobson and the author of the best-seller "Elegance of the Hedgehog" Muriel Barbery. Samuil Lurye showed the anniversary edition, the People’s artist Aleksander Filippenko presented the anniversary editions of Fridrikh Gorenshtein, Leonid Parfyonov held the autograph session.

The author of the cult novel "Loneliness in the Network" Janusz Leon Wisniewski has met readers and told about the novel which he is currently writing. It is based on the conversation about life between a mother and a son, for that reason the working title is "On Facebook with my son". The author emphasised that the new book is a tribute in memory of his mother: "I put a lot of personal memories in this book".

During all the days of the Salon, there has been organised the Copyright Centre in Lenexpo where specialists of book branch could ask the questions and receive legal advice.

Business programme

The II International Literary Forum became the central action of the Book salon. In the first working day, the discussion was about the world’s growing interest to the Russian history showed in books. Sergey Stepashin regretted the reduced circulation of historical books in Russia: "The average circulation of a book in our country makes 6,500 copies, the circulation of a historical book is no more than 5,000 copies. It means that less than 0.01 % of Russians can read printed historical books". Among participants of the forum there was also the archimandrite Tikhon who declared that a state strategy of cultural development is needed, as well as the citizens’ moral health care. According to him, the idea of creation of the strategy has already been supported by a number of public associations and unions, and also by the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill.

“The days of France” have passed at the Salon’2012. As the exhibition honor guest, the Book Salon of Nice has presented French literary heritage and the newest trends of French book branch. Guests of Salon got acquainted with such projects as “Russian presence in the literary landscape of Nice” by Olympia Alberti, “The role of Solzhenitsyn’s activity for France” by Bertrand le Meignen, “Nice – the culture city” by Patrick Besson. Besides, in the presentation zone there were public French language lessons for beginners, the meeting with the author of a modern French detective Adrien Goëts, and the photo exhibition “100 monuments – 100 writers”. The Vice Governor of St. Petersburg Vasily Kichedzhi noted that Russia and France are connected by strong friendship in many spheres. The cross year of language and culture between Russia and France passed in 2010 so successfully that the countries decided to continue active cooperating.

The structural changes of Europe book branch in the last two years, and also the copyright in Internet were discussed by Russian and foreign experts at the “round tables” which passed at the Salon. The representatives of the Union of Writers of Sweden told why in European shops the sale of book volumes had decreased. They noted that the analysis of European book market would help experts to predict the situation in Russia: “In Sweden, sales of books in shops fell to 10 % because the buyers began to use Internet shops. And it’s really convenient to buy on the Internet information on the editions. The choice of books is wider too!" Internet sales in Europe make presently 30 % from the total amount of the market. In Russia, this figure is much lower – only 4-6 %. The reason of that is the Internet piracy.

The problems of school libraries were discussed at the conference «Reading children and adults: the book and personality development». The report by the President of Association of school libraries of Russia Tatyana Zhukova was heard. There were also presentations of manuals by publishing houses “Oniks”, “Russkoe slovo” and “Azbooka-Atticus”. According to Tatyana Zhukova, school libraries need to be updated, and it’s a necessary component of education modernisation in today’s Russia. ”In a new paradigm, the library shouldn't be separated from the educational process. We need the lessons to be organised by specialised teachers together with a librarian”, she added.

More than 1,500 experts took part in the events of the business programme of the Book salon.

Programme for children

Specially for the youngest visitors, during all the working days of the Salon there were organised the events of the Biblionyanya series, meetings with children's writers, joint readings aloud, the workshops of children's artists “How to draw the fairy tale”, open lessons for school students, theatrical performances and many other things!

Thanks to the webinar organised by the Leningrad regional children's library (LRCL), the Tikhvin teenagers could participate in the meeting with children's writer Ekaterina Murashova and artist Katya Tolstaya, without leaving the hometown. As the manager of Department of readers service of LRCL Ekaterina Kuzmina explained, it is important that inhabitants of Russian out-of-the-way place could learn everything about current trends in book branch: “Being navigators on modern children's literature, we can recommend to parents and children some publishing houses and tell where to find good books”.

How to increase the speed of reading, to allocate the most important in the text and to improve perception of the work, the representatives of the Centre of additional education “Yunium” told during the fancy-dressed workshop “Read “The War and The Peace” in a night”. It took place during the children's day in the presentation zone of the Book salon. The most part of listeners were school students. They carried out tasks and answered questions with delight. Thanks to the leaders in historical suits and the active participation of kids, the event turned into a real literary holiday!

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The committee of European Trotting Union met for the first time in Russia

webmaster@lenexpo.ru (webmaster@lenexpo.ru) — 10 May 2012 14:58:32 GMT

This unparalleled event took place within the business programme of the XIV International Horse Exhibition “Hipposphere”. Specialists from Russia, Austria, Finland, France and Sweden, gathered together to propose some regulations on the horse treatment during the races.

The working group met behind closed doors. Russia was represented by the Vice President of the Russian Trotter Breeding Association Alla Polzunova, and the President of the Horse Veterinarian Association Ekaterina Zabegina.

The session was opened by Alla Polzunova who told the members of the European Trotting Union the history of Oryol trotters, the first trotting bread in the world that won numerous international races, reflecting its glory on Russia. It is for these horses that the famous harness “troika”, one of Russian symbols, was created. Russia nearly lost the bread twice in the XX century: the population reduced to 500 animals during the Civil War, and there were only 700 horses survived on the stud farms during the post-perestroika period. Thanks to international support programmes, Russia managed to preserve the Oryol trotters, and their population is over five thousand now.

The Horse Welfare Committee of European Trotting Union was formed on the initiative of the General Secretary of the Council of Europe, and holds its sessions once a year in one of European countries. According to Ekaterina Zabegina, the fact of choosing Russia this year shows a great interest in our domestic horse-breeding industry. "In terms of the scale of the event and the level of decisions made, this meeting is a highlight of the whole business programme of the exhibition," she emphasised.

The regulations proposed at the Hipposphere will be later considered by supreme European authorities.

Horses help to cope with stress

webmaster@lenexpo.ru (webmaster@lenexpo.ru) — 05 May 2012 14:53:25 GMT

On the fourth of May, within the framework of the business programme of the XIV St. Petersburg International Horse Exhibition "Hipposphere", traditional conferences on horse veterinary medicine and methods of hippotherapy took place.

The doping control became one of the main themes to discuss at the VIII International Conference on Problems of Horse Veterinary Medicine.

Some reports were given by the president of Horse Veterinary Society of Russia Ekaterina Zabegina, a veterinary surgeon of Intervet Company Evgeny Grechukhin , the dean of the Department of Hippology and Veterinary Science of the National Open Institute of Russia Nikolay Zelenevsky, and by other specialists of veterinary science.

According to Ekaterina Zabegina, the rules on the doping control used in Russia, are written down in the World Anti-Doping Code. It is planned to implement American system of anti-doping fund formation – in the USA, every participant of competitions pays a 7 dollar fee for the doping control. Winning horses are usually tested immediately after competitions. “Today there is an opposition of European and American systems for the doping control. Unlike Europe, corticosteroids, muscle pills, and other drugs prohibited in EU are permitted in the USA”, she noted.

The speakers of the conference “Hippotherapy. Invalid Equestrian Sport. Experience and Prospects” were employees of the Centre of Rehabilitation of Person Disabled Since Childhood "Nash Solnechny Mir" (Our Solar World), representatives of the National Federation of Medical Riding and Invalid Equestrian Sport, and also other professionals of horse business.

A representative of St. Petersburg University of State Fire Service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia Anna Linkina, told about emotional changes of a person as a result of communication with horses. According to Anna, one of modern techniques of correction of the mental state of a patient is hyppotherapy. The results of her investigation showed that about 50 % of the examinees felt considerably better, and their anxiety level of 83 % decreased after communication with horses.

St. Petersburg has been recognised as one of the best tourist destinations of Europe

webmaster@lenexpo.ru (webmaster@lenexpo.ru) — 05 May 2012 14:39:57 GMT

A popular web-site for travellers, Tripadvisor has ranked the best tourist destinations of Europe. St. Petersburg was placed the 15th in the list, having appeared more attractive than Vienna, Munich and Budapest.

The head of Rostourizm Alexander Radkov has declared in April that Russia was in top ten of the most visited countries in the world; about 25 million tourists had visited Russia in 2011. Most travellers arrived from the Baltic countries, Germany, Poland and Finland.

The world leaders for reception of foreign tourists in 2011 were France (approximately 80 million), the United States (62 million), Spain (56.7 million), Italy and China. Russia, which is placed the 6th, was visited by 24.93 million foreign visitors; among them there were 5.47 million business tourists. In comparison with the last year the overall growth in the number of country visitors was 12%. The number of business-travellers to Russia including those arriving to exhibitions, conventions, forums has increased by 24%.

“In the forefront of growing interest in Russia and in particular to St. Petersburg, our city can and shall become the venue of the most authoritative business meetings, the showcase of the newest achievements of industry and science. In order to do this St. Petersburg needs a modern ground to hold major international events. For this purpose, our company is implementing a construction project of one of the largest convention and exhibition centres in Europe”, has commented the growing numbers the Executive Director of ExpoForum JSC Sergey Voronkov.

ExpoForum will hold a charity event devoted to the Victory Day

webmaster@lenexpo.ru (webmaster@lenexpo.ru) — 05 May 2012 14:28:46 GMT

ExpoForum together with the administration of Pushkin district and Military and Medical Museum will hold a charity event on May 7 and 8. In Pushkin city, there will be opened a temporary public office of Military and Medical museum archives with some materials of the Great Patriotic War.

Citizens of the city Pushkin and its environs will be able without leaving the city to make a request for an archive letter confirming the fact of an injury or a disease received during military actions, or to find out some information about the fate of the relatives who died in military hospitals during the Great Patriotic War.

The public office will be in the van provided by the ExpoForum company. The van will be located on May 7 and 8 at the cross road of Moskovskaya and Oranzhereynaya streets with the access from the side of the Cathedral of Saint Catherine. The operation hours: from 10.00 till 18.00.

National Horse Park to Open in Ufa

webmaster@lenexpo.ru (webmaster@lenexpo.ru) — 04 May 2012 18:05:16 GMT

Experts discussed the prospects of racing business in Russia and the concept of national horse park in Bashkiria at the first international conference on National Horse-Breeding and Hippodrome Business within the business program of Hipposphere, an annual international horse exhibition.

According to Ildar Akhmetov, Deputy Director of Akzubat hippodrome, the project of national horse park has already been approved by the Government and the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Bashkortostan. The exhibition will tell about Bashkir traditions and include a model of aul, a street of medieval crafts, and a small horse theater for equestrian shows and historical performances. Moreover, an equestrian centre where each comer can hire and learn to ride a horse will become an essential part of the park.

The conference agenda also included the report by Alla Polzunova, Vice President of the Russian Trotter Breeding Association. The Association takes an active part in the revival of national racing business. It has been organizing Great Tracks - horse races covering several regions of the country - since 2007. In particular, the development of local racing business was mostly fostered by the Siberian Track which includes horse races in Krasnoyarsk, Altay, Abakan, Novosibirsk, and Omsk. The All-Russian Oryol Trotter Festival first held in 2010 pursues the same national horse-breeding promotion goal.

According to Ms. Polzunova, the racing business has been going through the tough times over the past four years. The major challenge that hinders its development is a betting ban. Deprived of this effective payback source, the racing business faces serious problems. “Organizers have to spend at least 200 thousand roubles on a prize,” Vice President told.

Russian experience was benchmarked against Europe where horse racing betting is booming. Senior Advisor of Suomen Hippos, a trotting and breeding association, Matti Lakkisto told about the Finnish practice. Last year the betting turnover of our northern neighbors was EUR 248 million of which EUR 179 million (i.e. 74%) returned to the race participants.

Russian Troika Brought Guests to Hipposphere Opening

webmaster@lenexpo.ru (webmaster@lenexpo.ru) — 04 May 2012 17:59:39 GMT

Hipposphere, an international horse exhibition, opened at Lenexpo on May 4. The participants cut the symbolic red ribbon right on the manege arranged in the exhibition hall.

Pavel Belov, Deputy Chairman of the Committee for Physical Education and Sports; Alexander Varenov, Deputy Chairman of the Regional Committee for Agribusiness and Fishing; Alexander Timchenko, General Director of Rosplemkonzavod; Alla Polzunova, Vice President of the Russian Trotter Breeding Association; and Larisa Smetanina, Head of the Exhibition Department of ExpoForum, enjoyed the privilege to open the fourteenth exhibition.

Mr. Varenov noted the positive tendency in the project development, “The geography of participants expands and the number of visitors grows every year.”

Mr. Timchenko mentioned that the exhibition had every reason to be one of the leading Russian horse-breeding projects as its stimulating effect on sector development can scarcely be exaggerated.

This year Hipposphere is organized by ExpoForum. “When composing the exhibition portfolio of Lenexpo, we decided to keep this project which attracts numerous visitors but is extremely complex in terms of organization,” explained Ms. Smetanina. The exhibition will be held in Lenexpo's pavilions till 2014 and then move to a new congress and exhibition center constructed by ExpoForum on Peterburgskoye Highway. It is supposed to be one of the largest complexes in the Northwestern Russia.

Ms. Polzunova stressed the relevance of three Oryol trotters on the manege, “Troika is a traditional symbol of Russia. The exhibition will demonstrate the best breeds our country is so proud of.”

School Libraries Require Modernisation

webmaster@lenexpo.ru (webmaster@lenexpo.ru) — 27 Apr 2012 18:01:42 GMT

Conference “Reading for Children and Adults: the Book and Personal Development” was held within the VII Saint Petersburg International Book Salon on April 27. The key topic discussed at the event was school library integration into educational process.

The agenda of the conference included the report of Tatyana Zhukova, the President of the Association of School Libraries, and presentations of Russian publishing houses Onyx, Russkoye Slovo, and Azbuka-Atticus.

According to Ms. Zhukova, updating school libraries is a prerequisite for educational process modernization. “When shifting to a new educational paradigm, the library should keep up with educational process. Integrated lessons of librarian instructor with subject teachers should be given,” she added.

Ms. Zhukova mentioned the best practices of some Russian and foreign schools. For example, the role of librarian who regularly attends major lessons is very important in Shanghai’s schools. There is also a parents’ room where one of the students’ mothers must read them aloud.

Russia has interesting experience, too. For example, there are libraries divided into special areas for different visitors. Depending on personality type – auditory, visual or tactile learner, a child studies in the quiet area or in the room where he or she can talk or make noise. In addition, these libraries have a place where a student can have a meal and refresh oneself when working on the project.

The publishers presented new special series of books for school libraries. Much attention is given to history, literature, and speech culture books for children today.

Online Piracy Undermines Literary Market

webmaster@lenexpo.ru (webmaster@lenexpo.ru) — 27 Apr 2012 17:55:10 GMT

Domestic and foreign experts discussed the structural changes in the European book sector over the last two years and the copyright issues on the Web at the VII Saint Petersburg International Book Saloon.

The representative of the Swedish Writers’ Union told the reasons why the European book retailers faced with slumping sales. She noted that the European book market analysis could help specialists predict the future situation in Russia. “Retail book sales in Sweden have dropped by 10% so far because on-line stores are increasingly popular among the readers today. Indeed, there is nothing easier than shopping online. The Internet offers more detailed information on publications and offers a greater choice of books!”

Online sales in Europe account for 30% of the total market volume now, while in Russia, they are much fewer– only 4-6%. The online piracy is to blame.

According to Vadim Uskov, Russia is currently facing the problem that the USA solved as early as in 1960s when clear laws prescribing severe sanctions for copyright infringement were adopted. In the US scheme, Internet providers must report on those who uploaded illegal content or block such content for three days. A similar inquiry in Russia is examined within 60 days, and this does not mean that access to content will be blocked.

“With illegal content distributed in the Internet, the intelligentsia, intellectual workers, may just fade away one day,” – he concluded.

St. Petersburg Claims to be the World’s Literary Capital

webmaster@lenexpo.ru (webmaster@lenexpo.ru) — 27 Apr 2012 15:47:04 GMT

The Days of France opened at the VII St. Petersburg International Book Salon on April 27. Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg Vasily Kichedzhi, First Deputy Mayor of Nice Benoit Kandel, and Culture Adviser at the Embassy of France and Director of the French Institute in St. Petersburg Hugo de Chevaniac welcomed the guests and participants.

Nice’s Book Fair (Salon du livre de Nice) became the honorary guest of St. Petersburg Book Salon within the Days of France in St. Petersburg. It will present such projects as Russian Presence in the Literary Landscape of Nice by Olympia Alberti, Solzhenitsyn’s role in France by Bertrand le Meignen, and Nice is the City of Culture by Partick Besson. In addition, the guests will have a chance to enjoy French demonstration lessons for beginners, a meeting with Andrien Goetz, a contemporary French detective novelist, and a photo exhibition titled 100 Monuments – 100 Writers in the presentation area.

Mr. Kichedzhi noted that Russia and France were united by the ties of close friendship in the various fields. The cross year of Russian and French language and culture in 2010 was so successful that the countries decided to continue their fruitful co-operation.

According to Mr. Kandel, St. Petersburg has every reason to become the world's literary capital. Just after the opening ceremony, the guests visited the round table where the strategy of St. Petersburg promotion as the world's book capital was discussed.

“We can not advice on promotion activities as the quality of the salon organisation shows that St. Petersburg has made a great leap forward. Nice's Book Fair will take place in June, and we will try to attain to St. Petersburg's level,” Benua Kandel said.

Hogo de Chevaniac offered to create a “residence of foreign authors” as a city promotion tool. France has certain experience in arranging the long stay of foreign writers in the country, which enables them to get to know the city inside, to form their own view and find inspiration for portraying it in their new works.

Yakov Gordin, a Russian historian, added that to promote St. Petersburg in the literary arena, we should introduce the books by national authors to the market and enhance their attractiveness for foreign publishers.

This summer the Hanging Garden will be opened in the Hermitage

webmaster@lenexpo.ru (webmaster@lenexpo.ru) — 27 Apr 2012 10:33:06 GMT

The reconstruction works of the Hanging Garden in the Small Hermitage for the view of 1845 are nearing completion. In the summer it will be its official opening. The researcher of the State Hermitage Museum, Maria Dubrovskaya, said about it at the conference held in the frames of the International Festival of flowers and landscapes in the “Lenexpo”.

Despite the relatively small amount of work, the restoration of the garden took about seven years. The most significant problem that had to overcome was the flowing system of waterproofing.

Gardens and parks occupy an important position in the face of St. Petersburg and its suburbs, and it is not surprising that the scientific and practical conference “The Life historical of parks and gardens in the modern conditions” has become the central event of the International Festival of flowers and landscapes. Landscape architects, researchers, curators of parks – more than 70 experts discussed the current situation concerning urban and suburban parks and gardens.

One of the problems is the account of old trees. According to the inventory in 2007, only in the public gardens of the 1,700 specimens about 800 ones live more than a century. The importance of conservation and breeding was explained by the Chairman of the Landscape architecture Council of the St. Petersburg Union of Architects Andrew Reiman: “Seedlings of European nurseries are not always suited to our natural environment, so using the genetic material of the old trees could be more suitable specimens for planting.”

According to him, the account of old trees has long been held around the world. In St. Petersburg, this process is just beginning. “Most of our orders were received from suburban parks: Tsarskoye Selo, Pavlovsk, Peterhof, – the General Director of “PiK” company Valentina Konstantinova said. – But I hope that old-growth trees in the city also will receive passports.”

The chief curator of Pavlovsk Park Svetlana Fedorova told about difficulties of the park territory restoration. Work has been going on for over 70 years, but the end is not in sight. The main problem in the restoration of so large landscaped park as Pavlovsk is saving the stylistic and compositional unity of the territory during the restoration of individual sites.

Writers of Saint Petersburg Are to Get Significant Support from Administration

webmaster@lenexpo.ru (webmaster@lenexpo.ru) — 26 Apr 2012 17:56:32 GMT

The VII Saint Petersburg International Book Salon started its work in Lenexpo. Within four days the guests of the exhibition can meet with the authors of world best-sellers, buy books without retail mark-up and visit over 250 business and entertaining events.

Participants of the opening ceremony were: Georgiy Poltavchenko, the Governor of Saint Petersburg, Sergey Stepashin, the Chairman of the Chamber of Accounts of the Russian Federation and the President of the Russian Book Union, Vladimir Grigoryev, the Deputy Director of the Federal Agency for Print and Mass Communications, the Executive Director of ExpoForum JSC, the General Director of Lenexpo JSC, Sergey Voronkov, and other honorable guests.

According to Georgiy Poltavchenko, Saint Petersburg is not only the cultural capital of Russia, but also the most book-loving city. The Administration of Saint Petersburg supports both emerging and experienced writers on a regular basis. ‘This year we plan to direct 21 million rubles for publishing books by Saint Petersburg writers, so that young and called for writers had an opportunity to bring their works to readers.’

After the opening ceremony the guests visited the 2^nd International Writers Forum to take part in the discussion on growth of world interest to the Russian history through books. Sergey Stepashin wistfully noted that editions of historical books in Russia have been going down lately: ‘An average edition of a book in our country amounts to 6,500 copies, while an edition of a historical book is not exceeding 5,000 copies. Therefore, less than 0.01 % of Russians will be able to read a book printed in such edition.’

Among the participants of the Forum was the Archimandrite Tikhon who stated the necessity to elaborate a governmental strategy for cultural development and maintenance of ethic and moral state of the citizens. According to him the idea of strategy elaboration has already been supported by a number of core associations and unions, as well as by the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill.

Saint Petersburg International Book Salon is held in Lenexpo April 26-29.

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Festival of Flowers and Landscape Design Opened by the Governor of Saint Petersburg

webmaster@lenexpo.ru (webmaster@lenexpo.ru) — 26 Apr 2012 15:26:43 GMT

Improvement and planting of the city play an important role in the work of the city administration. Presence of Georgiy Poltavchenko, the Governor of Saint Petersburg, at the opening ceremony of the International Festival of Flowers and Landscape Design confirms this fact. ‘Our city deserves to be well-attended and decorated, in order to make the citizens happy and to energize our guests’ – noted the Governor.

Sergey Voronkov, the Executive Director of ExpoForum JSC told about the plans of the Company on festival project development: ‘Next year we plan to expand the exhibition for at least twofold by means of introducing new subjects and sections. I think that many people will be interested in the issue of courtyards improvement, we will present the experience of our Dutch colleagues within the frames of the international collaboration project ‘The Year of Holland in Russia’.

In the end of the opening ceremony the Governor presented Janna Khaina, the General Director of the Landscape Household ‘Kalininskoye’, with a badge of honor ‘Merit for Saint Petersburg’ for her long-term work and invaluable contribution to improvement and landscaping of the city. For over 70 years the Company has successfully planted the territory of the district with an area of 607.4 ha and decorated it with flowers, grown in the Company’s own greenhouse.

On the same day, on April 26, the Regional Floristry Championship ‘Nevsky Fleur’ started. Among the jury there are specialists of the National Guild of Florists, floristic studio of Alexander and Vladimir Bermyakov, floristic school ‘Plant-A’ and Moscow salon ‘Tsvety na Sretenke’. In the course of the first day each of the four participants shall create three flower compositions based on the fairy tales by the brothers Grimm. The second tour of the competition and review take place tomorrow. The winners will challenge to take part in the Professional Floristry Championship of Russia.

The first in Russia project of returning the wild horse to the nature will be presented in Lenexpo

webmaster@lenexpo.ru (webmaster@lenexpo.ru) — 20 Apr 2012 17:29:17 GMT

Przhevalsky's horses, almost exterminated in the 19th century, survived in world zoos and now will be returned to their historical homeland – Orenburg steppes. The unique project of reintroduction of Przhevalsky's horse will be presented on May, 7th in Lenexpo within the “Hipposphere” exhibition. In Russia, it will be the first attempt to return the wild horse to the nature.

The “Return of Przhevalsky's horse” project participants of Russian Geographical Society will move some tens of individuals from zoos of Europe to the steppes of Orenburg region in order to return to the region this type of rare hoofed animals. Horses lived here till the middle of the 19th century, but with the development of agricultural industry they were exterminated by man. In the next two years, the first batch of animals will be delivered to a protected territory called “Orenburg Tarpania” ('tarpan' was the name for wild horses living once in the steppes).

Przhevalsky's horse appears in the Red Book as a type being under the threat of disappearance. More than two thousand individuals living in the world zoos now exist. Some free populations are created recently in Mongolia and China: 300-400 horses originating from zoo animals as well.

The project of reintroduction of Przhevalsky's horse is implemented within actions for preserving and recovery of steppe ecosystems of Russia supported by Global Environment Foundation and under the aegis of the Development Programme of the United Nations.

Participants: A.A. Chibilev – vice-president of Russian Geographical Society, Chairman of the Orenburg Regional Department, Director of Institute of Steppe of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Ural department; S. V. Levykin, Manager of the Laboratory of Agroecology Land Management of Institute of Steppe of the URO Russian Academy of Sciences; N.N. Spassky - the Scientific Secretary of the Research Zoological Museum of Lomonosov Moscow State University.

The “Return of Przhevalsky's horse” project presentation will take place on May, 7th at 12.00 in "Lenexpo" pavilion 7, conference hall 7-2.

The XIV St. Petersburg International “Hipposphere” Horse Exhibition will pass from May, 4th to May, 7th, 2012.

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Best producers of goods and services for senior people in St Petersburg have been announced

t.ivanova@lenexpo.ru (t.ivanova@lenexpo.ru) — 16 Apr 2012 09:25:53 GMT

The annual competition among enterprises "Best Producer of Goods and Services for Senior People" organised by the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of St. Petersburg was held as a part of International Forum Senior Generation at Lenexpo. The main task of this competition is to encourage entrepreneurs to produce goods and services for senior people.

Four companies became the winners: Gigiena Sever LLC, Federal State Budget Institution "St. Petersburg Scientific Centre of Medical and Social Expertise, Prosthetics and Rehabilitation of Disabled People n.a. G.A. Albrecht of the Federal Medical and Biological Agency", Lege LLC, and USI Agency LLC.

Gigiena Sever presented such actual products for seniors as barrier cream, urological pads and adult diapers. Rehabilitation Centre n.a. G.A. Albrecht of FMBA of Russia has developed a special functional and aesthetic clothing for disabled people. Lege LLC presented a very important thing for senior people - alarm button, providing connection of its owner to the 24-hour system of remote communication with medical staff. The activities of USI Agency, which provides services of home care, were also highly evaluated by the jury.

Goods and services of the other companies were awarded diplomas for participation: electrical stimulator for neuromuscular system (Sovremennye Technologicheskiye Linii LLC), tonometer (CS Medica Severo-Zapad LLC), infrared sauna, natural wool bed, orthopedic pillow (Bauer Group Ltd.), sunflower oil, vegetables, semi-finished products of the stud farm "Detskoselsky", seniors care services and services associated with training of patient's relatives in sicknursing (Zolotoy Lokon LLC, Angel-Khranitel care service), special pensions for seniors (Opeka LLC), Nurses Personnel Service and online rehabilitation goods store (Nesidelki IE of A.V. Bukhantsev), gardening therapy project (KGBUSO "Biisk Regional centreof social assistance to families and children").

The organisers thanked the companies for participation and expressed hope to see even more participants next year, which would measure growth of the home market of goods and services for senior people.

Libraries will deliver books to the homes of St. Petersburg pensioners

webmaster@lenexpo.ru (webmaster@lenexpo.ru) — 13 Apr 2012 17:54:59 GMT

Modern libraries become a club for communication, computer literacy centre, health school for seniors and the place where they will get legal assistance.

Inter-regional round table "Public Libraries of the XXI Century for the Senior Generation" brought together interested public and professionals on April 13 at the International Forum "Senior Generation".

Director of the Central City Public Library n.a. V.V. Mayakovsky, Zoya Chalova, Chief Bibliographer of the Murmansk State Regional Universal Scientific Library, Svetlana Ivanova, representative of the Moscow Central Universal Library n.a. Nekrasov, Nadezhda Ivanova and others experts shared their experience with the public.

Over 1.2 million of St. Petersburg citizens are seniors, and many of them can't visit libraries aidless. According to Zoya Chalova a "Social Delivery Desk" system of special library service was established in the city to solve this problem. Program staff members chose and deliver books free of charge to the seniors' homes. "The number of people seeking to get books at home increases, and the only constraint on the development of the program is its funding" - added Zoya Chalova.

Svetlana Ivanova told about role of the Public Access Centres in the social adaptation of seniors in the modern information society. "Since 2008, 15 Centers based at the public libraries of the Murmansk region have been opened, which provide free access to such equipment as computers, printers, scanners, as well as special equipment for visually impaired people" - said Svetlana Ivanova.

As a part of the target program "Library For Senior Generation" cinema events, meetings with writers, specialized courses of computer literacy, foreign languages, as well as school of health and longevity are organized today for pensioners in the Russian libraries. School of legal literacy where every pensioner can get legal advice of qualified expert has a great success.

The North-West Region pioneered raising of suppliers for the global vehicle components market

webmaster@lenexpo.ru (webmaster@lenexpo.ru) — 13 Apr 2012 16:13:47 GMT

Inactivity amidst forthcoming entry in the WTO leaves little chance for the Russian manufacturing companies to occupy a niche in the international supply chain and to get orders for manufacture of vehicle components, summarised the Deputy Chairman of the Committee for Economic Development, Industrial Policy and Trade of St. Petersburg Kirill Soloveitchik on April 13 at the Automechanika St. Petersburg exhibition. St. Petersburg companies have already started preparation for breakthrough to the international markets.

"We felt it necessary to teach managers how to organise work so that their businesses become suppliers of the largest companies of the world. And to the moment we're the only region, which settled down to a course of own businesses development in this direction," - these words of Kiril Soloveitchik opened a School for Suppliers workshop, which was a part of the business program of the exhibition of vehicles, garages, service stations, spare parts and accessories Automechanika St. Petersburg.

The expert of the Centre for Strategic Research "North-West" Victoria Zheltova described situation in the global market of vehicle components in her report as follows: oligopoly of global brands and unprecedented pressure exerted on suppliers by assemblers, demanding lower prices. She advised to the companies entering international market in such situation to look for own niche more carefully (it shall not be applied only to goods, but also to some technological competences).

According to the Committee of Economic Development, Industrial Policy and Trade only 7% of companies in the Region are all ready to introduce their products to the world market, and 45-50% of the companies have to fulfill certain conditions, for example, to upgrade equipment, improve skills of personnel to enter global markets. Such training activities as School for Suppliers at the Automechanika St. Petersburg - are part of the strategy aimed at raising of own manufacturers of vehicle components with a focus on the world market, performed by the Government of St. Petersburg.

Green light to the Automechanika St. Petersburg exhibition

webmaster@lenexpo.ru (webmaster@lenexpo.ru) — 13 Apr 2012 16:09:07 GMT

On April 12 an exhibition of vehicle components, spare parts and equipment for garage and car service centers Automechanika St. Petersburg 2012 was opened at Lenexpo. According to foreign experts, Saint-Petersburg is a place where the greatest potential can be realised by the car market of Russia and Eastern Europe.

Automechanika is a number 1 exhibition brand in the world in this area. The exhibition is held in 10 countries around the world: Argentina, Germany, Spain, China, Malaysia, Mexico, UAE, Russia, Turkey, South Africa. In each of them it is an industry leader.

At the official opening ceremony the Executive Director of ExpoForum JSC, General Director of Lenexpo JSC Sergey Voronkov called this exhibition a landmark: it has not only changed the format by shifting primarily to the industry specialists, but also has become a new chapter in the history of the St. Petersburg congress and exhibition market. The promise of the project, coupled with the attractiveness of St. Petersburg vehicle market was evaluated by management of Messe Frankfurt, which decided to develop this exhibition together with ExpoForum JSC. Sergey Voronkov said that an agreement on cooperation had been reached within the unprecedentedly short time, and the whole exhibition had been organized within less than six months. He expressed gratitude to the partners for the prompt response and for well-formed foreign part of the exhibition.

On behalf of Messe Frankfurt Brand Manager of the Automechanika exhibition, Michael Johannes, thanked ExpoForum JSC and the city Government for assistance in conducting of the exhibition. Russia is the only country in the world, where the exhibition takes place simultaneously in two cities - Moscow and St. Petersburg, which indicates the special importance of the North-West region of the country. "Saint-Petersburg is the place where the greatest potential can be realised by the car market of Russia and Eastern Europe. Automechanika St. Petersburg has a great future "- said Michael Johannes.

On behalf of the Government of St. Petersburg guests and participants of the exhibition were welcomed by the Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Transport, Dmitry Znamensky. "The city is interested in purchasing high quality vehicles and spare parts", - said Dmitry Znamensky. He was granted an honorable mission to switch the green light at the symbolic traffic light near the stage, which became a symbol of a good start to a promising project.

The central event of the first day was an International Conference "Modernization of Road Transport - Strategy 2020". The following topics were covered by the conference: use of navigation systems, operation of gas management equipment, expert training, industrial policy of the city etc.

The conference was attended by industry professionals: representatives from government, business organisations, professional associations and specialised media. In particular, 170 professionals attended the plenary meeting, 70 experts attended the conference "Development of cooperation between Polish and Russian companies in the field of auto mechanics," and 60 specialists - the round table "Alternative fuels for modern vehicles". Over 40 persons participated in the filed workshop "Introduction of modern information technologies for management of urban passenger transport and organization of passage money collecting".

"Business Matchmaking" - a system of prior appointments for exhibitors and visitors had a great success. Thanks to this tool of communication 153 meetings were held only for the first day of the exhibition. And about 50 negotiations and meetings were held at the exposition stands.

The Automechanika exhibition takes place at Lenexpo on April 12-14.

Further information: www.aam.expoforum.ru

More than two hundred business meetings took place at the exhibition "Automechanika St.Petersburg" on the first day

webmaster@lenexpo.ru (webmaster@lenexpo.ru) — 13 Apr 2012 12:26:08 GMT

The first day of the exhibition "Automechanika St. Petersburg" 2012 has finished. "Business Contacts Exchange" and activities of the business program were the most successful. "Automechanika St. Petersburg" is the first time in the format 2b2: now it is focused primarily on the professional community.

153 meetings were held on the first day of the exhibition thanks to the "Business Contacts Exchange" – an effective system of prior appointments of the exhibitors and visitors. About 50 negotiations were held at the stands of the exposure.

Within the business program five major events took place. In particular, more than 170 professionals attended the plenary session, during which were made the following reports: "The role of the automobile cluster of St. Petersburg in the city's economy," "The development of inspection in the Russian Federation", "Prospects for the implementation of management systems certification for compliance with the ISO / TS 16949:2009" and others.

70 experts were at the conference "Development of cooperation between Polish and Russian companies in the field of auto mechanics." In his welcoming speech to the conference participants Head of department of Trade and Investment Promotion of the Consulate General of Poland Mr. Khenrykh Bushta has hoped that the conference will be the launching pad for joint projects between Russian and Polish companies.

More than 60 persons became the guests for reports presented at the round table "Alternative fuels for modern vehicles." Among them: "The strategy of implementation of the development of safe and environmentally friendly vehicles KAMAZ", "Gas fuel systems DVM and presentation of the first Russian professional training and practical guide for professional road transport with natural gas fuel systems for internal combustion engines," "Overview of the British electric market" and others.

More than 40 specialists went to field seminar, "The introduction of modern information technology for management of urban passenger transport and the organization of collecting fares," which was organized in the Committee for Transport under the Government of St. Petersburg

As part of the exposure project "Automechanika St. Petersburg" more than 100 companies from Russia, Britain, Germany, India, Spain, Italy, China, Poland, Turkey, Estonia and Japan represent their products. Compared to last year the exhibition area will increase by three times. About 50% of the total number of exhibitors is foreign participants – a rare fact for Russian exhibitions. In parallel with the "Automechanika St. Petersburg" 2012 the Motor Show of Commercial Vehicles "InAVTOTRANS" is organised, it demonstrate models of buses, trucks and other special vehicles.

The exhibition "Automechanika" takes place in the "Lenexpo" April 12-14.

Detailed information: www.aam.expoforum.ru

Zoosphere exhibition participated in VIII International Forum ZooVetExpo.

zoosphere@lenexpo.ru (zoosphere@lenexpo.ru) — 13 Apr 2012 10:50:51 GMT

VIII International Forum ZooVetExpo has been held on April 10-12 in Kiev. Zoosphere exhibition participated energetically in its work. During the forum we achieved numerous agreements with our prospective participants about exhibiting at Zoosphere-2012. Also we held negotiations with Ukranian professional mass media organisations.

The official opening of the Forum “Senior Generation” was on Astronautics day this time

webmaster@lenexpo.ru (webmaster@lenexpo.ru) — 13 Apr 2012 09:19:25 GMT

The Official Opening Ceremony of the VII International Forum titled “Senior Generation” was conducted on April 12, at Lenexpo exhibition complex. It is the first project in today’s Russia covering the complete range of products and services for the senior people.

Although the Forum started working on April 11, the Official Welcoming Ceremony was scheduled to coincide with the opening of the International Congress on “Social adaptation, support and healthcare for elderly people in the modern society”, which gathered leading domestic and international scientists within the walls of Lenexpo exhibition center.

Among dignitaries who attended the ceremony were: Olga Kazanskaya, the Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg; А. N. Rzhanenkov, Chairman of the Saint-Petersburg Committee for Social Policy; Anastasiya Melnikova, Honored Artist of Russia, Member of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg; Z. V. Bakhchevanova, General Manager of the Department of the Pension Fund of the Russian Federation for St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region; V. K. Khavinson, director of the St. Petersburg Bio-regulation and Gerontology Institute; Konstantin Ostrovsky , head of St. Petersburg regional branch of the Social Insurance Fund of the RF; V. М. Kolabutin, Executive Director of the Territorial Fund of the Obligatory Medical insurance, St. Petersburg; Nadezhda Shumeyko, head of regional branch of the Retiree Association of Russia. Contributors and guests of the Forum attended a live performance of the St. Petersburg Governor Orchestra (Conductor - People's artist of Russia Stanislav Gorkovenko).

In her welcome address Olga Kazanskaya expressed satisfaction over the positive development of the Forum: “A more highly topical program is provided every year, the Forum is growing in contributors, guests, and in scope. Olga Kazanskaya told the audience she looks forward to the event, believing that senior people will have an experience which will make their lives more intense and bright.
Addressing the senior citizens present in the hall, Sergei Voronkov, executive director of ExpoForum JSC and director general of Lenexpo JSC, noted that the Astronautics Day has been chosen as the highly symbolic date for the official opening of the forum: “We can be proud to have many achievements. This is because you made heroic efforts”.

According to Sergey Voronkov, events with social topics have a special meaning for the company "ExpoForum": "Along with major industrial, energy and other business activities, there are also exhibitions for children and their parents, older people, for the connoisseurs of books. This is our contribution to social development and a significant stimulus for its development ", - added Sergey Voronkov.
The forum “Senior Generation” will be held at Lenexpo on April 11-14. It will include the International Congress on “Social adaptation, support and healthcare for elderly people in the modern society, the exhibition “Care, Aid and Mercy”, and the trade fair “Everything for health”. Over 160 exhibitors from diverse regions of Russia, Byelorussia, Bulgaria, and Finland will showcase their products and services.
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The ways how to solve the problem of pensioners’ employment were discussed at Lenexpo

webmaster@lenexpo.ru (webmaster@lenexpo.ru) — 12 Apr 2012 12:31:11 GMT

The workshop dedicated to employment problems for the seniors in St. Petersburg has become one of the most important events, which took place on the first day of the exhibition “Senior Generation”, held at Lenexpo. Specialists from the Committee on labour and employment of St. Petersburg Administration, representatives of the city employment centers and other officials made their reports within this event.

This workshop was held by Elena Kirina, the specialist of the public employment and social protection department, Committee on labour and employment of St. Petersburg Administration. She admitted: “The situation on St. Petersburg labour market is all in all propitious”, according to Ms. Kirina, the recorded unemployment level is quiet low (0,51%), the employers offer a large number of vacancies (more than 60 thousand, while 70% of them refer to special qualifications).

It’s evident that pensioners and people of preretirement age face much more difficulties while finding a job, this is why they fall into a special category of customers. Alla Danilova, the head of occupation guidance department of the employment center of Primorskiy district of St. Petersburg explained what services the center render to the customers: instruction how to use Internet, how to be interviewed by an employer, how to draw up a CV, etc.

Nadezhda Egorova, the chairman of the Board of Non-commercial Partnership Center for Public Assistance “Doveriye” pointed out: “It’s necessary to improve labour motivation for aged people. Having fixed income (pension) they expect to find a part-time job. This is why it’s obvious that they cannot show an outstanding interest to the company’s success”. Ms. Egorova also turned the attention of the representatives of the employment centers to the fact that they are really able to provide the people of senior generation with workplaces. She regretted the fact that people frequently forget about these sources for vacancies.

The workshop has provided an opportunity for the specialists to ask the representatives of the employment centers their concern questions. The participants have discussed such problems as the necessity to cooperate with the representatives of medical and social assessment in order to propose some amendments to the in individual rehabilitation program for disabled persons, notification a candidate domiciliary in one district, which prevents him from qualifying for an appropriate position in another district, etc.

Presently functional and esthetic garments for the seniors and disabled persons can be ordered free of charge

webmaster@lenexpo.ru (webmaster@lenexpo.ru) — 12 Apr 2012 12:24:04 GMT

A round-table discussion “The problems of providing the seniors, aged and disabled with functional and esthetic garments” took place as a part of exhibition “Senior Generation”, which is being held from April 11-14 at Lenexpo. As a part of this event the experts have explained and shown the visitors the way the manufacture of garments for senior and disabled persons is developing.

The round-table discussion was organised for all comers by St. Petersburg Scientific and Practical Centre for Medical and Social Assessment, Prosthetics and Rehabilitation of disabled persons named after Albrekht G.A. The representatives of the Centre showed the visitors the films about garments manufacture, demonstrated some outfit samples and special purpose garments.

This year the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which brings out the approach to the problem of disability, and is based on recognition of human rights, has been introduced for consideration by the State Duma. According to this Convention the seniors and disabled persons’ adaptation is considered to be a very important social issue. Special garments are turning out to be one of the ways to improve the quality of life for these people.

Valentina Volkova, a representative of the Centre, highlighted the fact that functional and esthetic garments, which are designed and manufactured with a due account for functional capabilities and needs of the disabled, and with the use of various technical backup means, special accessories, specific fabrics, represent an adaptation method for the seniors and disabled persons. She clarified: “Special garments ease the process of self-service, possess special convertible elements and make a disabled person wearing these garments feel comfortable. Special garments can be provided to the disabled persons on a gratuitous basis”.

One suit weight amounts to a maximum of 1.5 kilos, which is a very significant factor for the people with muscular weakness. To manufacture this suit, they use modern transpiring and cold proof materials. Moreover modern materials prevent the garments from getting dirty, for that purpose the specialists use moisture-repellent coatings. It is quiet easy to handle these garments since they can be washed at a temperature of 30C and there’s no need to iron these garments. Besides comfort and functionality the outward of the garments meets all recent fashion trends.

The experts of the Centre work extensively with social services specialists, whom the seniors and disabled persons can address with a view to place an order for functional and esthetic garments.

The manufacturing of functional and esthetic garments for disabled persons is constantly progressing in Russia, new workshops emerge, different competitions and sharing experiences meetings are frequently organised.

Ms. Olga Kazanskaya, vice-governor of St. Petersburg, believes that business is to be actively involved in social spheres’ development

webmaster@lenexpo.ru (webmaster@lenexpo.ru) — 12 Apr 2012 11:14:11 GMT

Business and government incorporation has become the subject of a round-table discussion “Social services development. Government and business interaction”, which took place on the 11^th of April at Lenexpo. This event was held as a part of the forum’s program “Senior Generation”. It was organised by non-commercial partnership “Alliance of service industries for the senior generation”.

The meeting was opened by Ms. Kazanskaya Olga, vice-governor of St. Petersburg. The representatives of the Institute of Labor and Social Security, the experts of the "Center for Strategic Research" North-West ", the employees of such organizations as: "Marketing, Consulting, Design " JSC, Academy of Business "Ernst & Young”, NPO, “Guild of Managers and Developers, "and other representatives of the municipal business have participated in the discussion.

Ms. Olga Kazanskaya Olga highlighted the importance of the topic and emphasized the significance of development of social services through joint efforts of the government and business, since the existing model, due to which the social needs are financed only through the state budget funds, is outdated.

Mr. Valentin Roik, the deputy director of the Institute of Labor and Social Security reported on the European social services. Its key concept is the gerontological insurance, a program of citizens’ participation in financing of their retirement period.

Mr. Alexander Soynov, director-general of "Pansion" LLC reported on a successful example of cooperation between the government and businesses. His company is building a housing estate with a rehabilitation center for elderly people, he also highlighted the fact that this project is supported by the administration of St. Petersburg. His company has been provided with the land, operating costs will be also compensated. Some of the rooms in this center will be in return allocated for people with social security beneficiaries. There centers are in great demand but today paying capacity of the population remains the principle deterrent.

The round-table discussion has resulted in a decision to bring all top-notch ideas to the federal level and to find out the ways of organising a permanent expert site in order to investigate the concept more detail.

New training programs are developed for social workers

webmaster@lenexpo.ru (webmaster@lenexpo.ru) — 11 Apr 2012 15:43:36 GMT

The first business event of the VII International Forum "Senior Generation" which was opened today at Lenexpo, was the conference "Ethical and professional aspects of care for elderly and disabled persons."

The conference addressed issues associated with training of social workers, development of information technologies in social services, improving quality of life of elderly people living in social service homes and aid to elderly patients with unsound mind.

The following participants delivered their reports at the conference: Chair of Nursing and Clinical Practice Department of the North-West State Medical University n.a. I.I. Mechnikov - Natalia Turkina, Dean of the Faculty of Higher Nursing Education, Psychology and Social Work of the First Moscow State Medical University n.a. I. Sechenov - Natalia Kamynina, Professor of the General Practice Department of the St. Petersburg State Medical University n.a. Acad. I.P. Pavlov - Igor Bozhkov, expert from SCA Hygiene Products Alexandra Popova and other representatives of social and medical sphere, education and business.

According to Natalia Turkina, Russia accumulates actively an experience of social workers training in patient care basics, for example, since 2009 special training programs for social workers have been realised at the North-West State Medical University n.a. I.I. Mechnikov. "The training is provided free of charge" - she said.

Natalia Kamynina told that 20 years of nurse training at the higher school brought excellent results. The Social Workers Department was opened just recently, and it's a new experience for the University. The University makes an extensive use of feedback practice in its educational programs for social workers, in particular, questioning is conducted, which allows the University to create training program based on the issues interesting for some particular group.

According to Igor Bozhkov, quality of life of both elderly people and professional staff dealing with them shall be addressed more often. "Interaction and care for elderly and disabled patients who can hardly control their physiological functions and behavior, is a very complex task affecting quality of life - both from medical and social and economic point of view. In many cases it leads to professional "burnout" of social workers"- he added.

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VII International Forum "Senior Generation" is held at Lenexpo on April 11-14. Today it is the first project in Russia, covering the full range of products and services for senior people. The Forum includes International Congress "Social Adaptation, Support and Healthcare For Elderly People In The Modern Society," "Care, Aid and Mercy" Exhibition and "All for Health" Trade Fair. Over 160 companies from various regions of Russia, Belarus, Bulgaria and Finland will present their goods and services.

Admission free.

Further information: zabota.expoforum.ru

Closing ceremony of the Forum "Festive Decoration. Advertising and Information": awarded the most creative and talented participants

t.ivanova@lenexpo.ru (t.ivanova@lenexpo.ru) — 10 Apr 2012 11:51:12 GMT

On April 6 a great awarding ceremony for the winners of the competitions in the area of social advertising, photojournalism and decoration arts took place at Lenexpo, thus completing the II Forum "Festive Decoration. Advertising and Information".

In particular, results of the regional stage of the third Russian competition of social advertising "New Look" were defined. Expert evaluation was performed by the Organising Committee, consisting of representatives from government, public associations and advertising companies of the city.

The best social posters were presented by Konstantin Zaytsev (1^st place in the "Healthy Lifestyle" category), Michael Chadchenko (3^rd place in the "My Family Is My Treasure" category), Ella Zosimenko (2^nd place in the "Sports Country" category), Marianne Nikulshina (1^st place in the "Road of Good Deeds" category), Paulina Savenkova (2^nd place in the "Road of Good Deeds" category), Victoria Berezina (1^st place in the "Life Security" category), Tatyana Padalka (3^rd place in the "Save Nature" category).

In the "Social Video" category the award was given to: creative team of Nadezhda Radchenko, Dmitry Klimenko, Alena Ershova, Victoria Vlasenko, Victoria Skopina (1^st place in the "Healthy Lifestyle" category), Arthur Maximov (2^nd place in the "Road of Good Deeds" category), and creative team of Lyudmila Shamanina, Hasan Kochiev, Veronica Potapova, Alexey Rasskazov, Anastasia Tikurkina (3^rd place in the "We Are The Russians" category). The next stage for the winners is to get to the final federal stage of the competition, which will run from April 1 till June 30, 2012.

Then the turn for awards came to the winners of the contest "Tell The World 2012." The participants presented images of such socially important topics as the year of history in Russia, healthy lifestyle, attention and care of parents and relatives, cultural behavior in public places, energy saving, prevention of Internet addiction. The contest is a part of the III St. Petersburg Festival of Social Advertising "MiruMir", organized by the Center of Social Marketing "Social Vox". This event is also supported by the Administration of Saint Petersburg, leading universities of the city and Autonomous Nonprofit Organization "Laboratory of Social Advertising."

The winners were chosen by Russian photographers, advertising specialists. As a result, the winners were Vsevolod Veselov (1^st place), Alexander Malkov (2^nd place), Maxim Mustafayev (3^rd place). In the competition of decoration arts "Prof-Trend" St. Petersburg State Unitary Enterprise "Gorelectrotrans" was honored which contributed greatly to the festive decoration of St. Petersburg and, thus, to keeping New Year's mood among the citizens. The diploma was presented by the Director of the Forum "Festive Decoration. Advertising and Information" Natalia Pilatova. According to Natalia Pilatova, new entries for competitions are welcome - new winners will be announced next year.

Social Advertising Regulation Discussed at Lenexpo

webmaster@lenexpo.ru (webmaster@lenexpo.ru) — 05 Apr 2012 09:20:13 GMT

The VIII meeting of the Advertising Coordination Committee under the Interstate Council for Antimonopoly Policy of the CIS countries (ICAP) was held as the first event within the business program of the Festive Decoration. Advertising and Information Forum. The meeting agenda covered the topical issues of law enforcement and the practice of state regulation in advertising, including social one.

Vice-President of Saint Petersburg Vasily Kichedzhi welcomed the participants of the meeting attended by the representatives of ten countries: Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. A number of experts were invited to take part in the meeting, among them: Head of the Antimonopoly Supervision Department within the Leningrad Region Directorate of the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia Igor Bobrov, State Inspector of the Leningrad Region Directorate of the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia Marina Nerinovskaya, and other public officers and advertising business representatives.

At the beginning of the meeting, the Vice-Governor of Saint Petersburg Vasily Kichedzhi and the Chairman of the Press and Mass Media Cooperation Committee Alexander Lobkov answered the questions related to the practice of social advertising placement social advertising in Saint Petersburg. According to Mr. Lobkov, this issue is addressed being discussed in cooperation with the outdoor advertising operators of the city who are well aware of their social responsibility.

The Deputy Head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia Andrey Kashevarov reported on the topical issues of domestic advertising market regulation. He mentioned that antimonopoly authorities had initiated 5,451 proceedings related to advertising law violation in 2011, with inadequate advertising accounting for 15.7% of violations.

The Head of the ICAP Secretariat Azam Usmanov reported on the advertising practice in Kazakhstan. According to Mr. Usmanov, the authorities undertook 10 investigations related to the antimonopoly law violation in 2011, with 9 of them resulting in administrative proceedings.

In the Republic of Azerbaijan, about 40% of violations are connected with inappropriate advertising. Inadequate information disseminated about the features of products and services, their price, origin and use conditions was often the case. To prevent the advertising law violation the Antimonopoly Service developed a number of special measures that have already proven to be effective. The Manager of Consumer Protection Department of the State Antimonopoly and Consumer Protection Service under the Ministry of Economic Development of the Republic Azerbaijan Zajkhid Sharifov spoke to the point.

The Coordination Council also discussed the advertising campaign of MMM-2011, a new financial pyramid announced by Sergey Mavrodi. As posted on the Internet, the MMM-2011 scheme enables its participants to draw a 20% income every month. The problem provoked heated debates, and various mechanisms participants were suggested various mechanisms to counteract the creation of new financial pyramid.

Festive Decoration. Advertising and Information Forum Has Started

webmaster@lenexpo.ru (webmaster@lenexpo.ru) — 05 Apr 2012 09:11:48 GMT

The 2^d International Festive Decoration. Advertising and Information Forum, a key event in the North-West Region that focuses on outdoor advertising, city decoration and other advertising market segments, has started at Lenexpo Exhibition Complex.

The official opening ceremony was attended by Vice-Governor of Saint Petersburg Vasily Kichedzhi, Deputy Head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia Andrey Kasheverov, Chairman of the Press and Mass Media Cooperation Committee Alexander Lobkov, CEO of ExpoForum JSC Sergey Voronkov, and Vice-President of the Russian Association of Communication Agencies Sergey Pilatov.

According to Mr. Kichedzhi, advertising media make the city image, which is essential for such a big tourist destination, as Saint Petersburg. Today, social advertising is increasingly important in our city and draws attention to the problems of our community and their possible solutions. The Vice-Governor said that the advertising media highlighted such concerns of municipal authorities as tolerance issues and housing and public utilities sector. Moreover, Vasily Kichedzhi believes that the Forum is an effective platform where the experts from all over the world can share experience and form new trends in the advertising industry development.

After the opening ceremony, the honorary guests visited the exhibition where companies from both St. Petersburg and other cities presented the industry novelties. Mr. Kichedzhi mentioned that the festive decoration samples displayed at the exhibition could emphasize more the unique architecture of the city. According to the Vice-Governor, the outdoor advertising exhibits would not only communicate commercial and social information to people but also become important elements of city design.

Being the biggest b2b event in the North-West Region, the Festive Decoration, Advertising and Information Forum includes the exhibition and extensive business program. The Ideas Fair competition will enable the manufacturers to present their projects directly to the customers. The winners’ ideas will be used for 2013 New Year's decoration of Saint Petersburg.

The Forum is held on April 4-6, 2012.

Baltic Marine Festival 2012 Business program

A.Vasilenko@lenexpo.ru (A.Vasilenko@lenexpo.ru) — 03 Apr 2012 10:42:04 GMT

Several seminars dedicated to actual questions of navigation of small sized vessels, river and sea shipping are planned within Baltic marine festival 2012.

Seminar «Navigation and communication systems for small boats»

Participants: C-Map, Simrad, Raymarine, Lowrance, Transas, Ilada and other.

Topics:

Accidence risk for the boats and electronical-cartographical systems safety

Electronic maps industry technologies, precision and bias

Latest sea and river radio stations market report

Seminar « Navigation rules of small vessels»

Participants: relevant committees, State Inspection of Small Vehicles, Sailing Union, Baltic Customs, State basin authority “Volgo-Balt” and other.

Topics:

Opening of the inland waterways for foreign vessels

Leningrad Region small boats development concept

Legal points of the passenger shipping organization

Seminar «Modernization of Russian high speed fleet», Thursday, May 31, 12:00 room 6.1.

Organizer «Marine Technics»

Timing of the events is being specified, follow the program of the festival.

Looking forward for your questions, requests and applications for participation: boatshow@expoforum.ru

Innovative technologies of water and water objects purification are being developed in Petersburg

webmaster@lenexpo.ru (webmaster@lenexpo.ru) — 22 Mar 2012 17:41:58 GMT

Technology of water purification and recovery of water objects became the principal topic of the seminar “Innovative Ecological Technologies and Equipment” which took place on March 22nd within the forum “Big City Ecology 2012”. Guests from Czech Republic on behalf of the Director General of the company “CzechTrade” Ivan Nikl, Association of industrial and ecological innovation companies from Nizhnevartovsk city and representatives of State Unitary Enterprise “Vodokanal Saint-Peterburg” shared the experience in this area.

Valery Kolosov told in his report about bottom cleaning works which are carried out in the territory of Saint-Petersburg since 1993. He reported that in 2011 works were carried out in the Fontanka river and the Obvodny channel, the total amount of the taken out bottom ground deposits made 71,100 sq.m. In 2012 it is planned to continue cleaning these objects, but also to begin works in the river Volkovka. “About 100 million roubles from the city budget are spent annually on actions of water currents cleaning”, he added.

Except cleaning of rivers and channels, recovery of isolated water objects of cultural heritage is carried out in Saint-Petersburg. Works on recovery of six objects were carried out in 2011 (pond on Tverskaya street, pond on Polyustrovsky prospect, pond on Stachek prospect 156, 3rd Northern pond, 1st Northern pond on Krestovsky Island), the amount of bottom ground deposits taken out made 37,230 sq.m.

Hydraulic engineering constructions management systems of Petersburg were presented by the Head of Hydraulic Engineering Constructions Safety Department of Environmental Management Committee Ilya Shishkin. He noted that repair works are carried out every year on various hydraulic engineering constructions of the city, for example in 2011 installation of working lock was made at the dike of the Rzhev hydrosite and flowage of Dolgoye lake hydrosystem was recovered. Plans for 2012 are as follows: major maintenance of the dike No. 3 of the Izhora gathering pond and GTS of the Zavodskoy channel which adverse condition prevents drain of waters and lowers ecological safety of the Neva River.

The Chief Specialist of Emergency Works Coordination Department of Environmental Management Committee of Saint-Petersburg Igor Khamidulin made his report on safety in case of oil and oil products spills. For this purpose a system for liquidation of emergencies of ecological nature has been created in the city , and an icebreaker ship has been constructed. The ship called “Nevsky Outpost” is equipped with up-to-date equipment and can pass across Neva without bridge raising, unlike other 14 vessels belonging to the city which cannot work in the water area of Neva because of their sizes. The icebreaker ship is intended to destruct ice accumulations, liquidate fires in the coastal territory and on other vessels, and also for liquidation of oil spills, thus oil remains collected will contain no more than 5 % of water.

At the end of the seminar a film was shown about icebreaker ship “Nevsky Outpost” work during the winter period.

The business program of exhibition “Automechanika. St.Petersburg” is being extended

webmaster@lenexpo.ru (webmaster@lenexpo.ru) — 22 Mar 2012 08:24:27 GMT

A new event has been put on the program of international conference "Motor Transport Upgrading – Strategy 2020".

Included in the list of the conference topics was report “The introduction of modern information technology to manage urban passenger transport and organisation of fare collection” to be delivered by Igor Mailov, First Deputy Chairman of the Committee for Transport of St. Petersburg. The topic will be dealt with in a more detailed way at the traveling seminar hosed by the Committee for Transport of St. Petersburg to be arranged after the report where the participants will be able to familiarise themselves with innovative technologies for urban transport management and discuss the issues of relevance to them with top officials of the city administration.

Additionally, on April 12 and April 13 (correspondingly) a Russian-Polish round table of motor car component manufacturers and round table “Ecological innovations in the sphere of provision for megapolis road transport complex safety” will be held.

Throughout the Exhibition work period a business contact exchange will operate.

Changes in legislation are necessary for development of ecological damage liquidation system

webmaster@lenexpo.ru (webmaster@lenexpo.ru) — 21 Mar 2012 18:54:14 GMT

Within XII International forum “Big City Ecology” a round table called “Liquidation of Ecological Damage, Including Connected with Last Business Activities (Recultivation of Territories)” took place on March 21st, 2012.

The Head of Department of Ensuring Ecological Wellbeing of the Territories of Environmental Management, Environmental Protection and Ecological Safety Provision Committee of Saint-Petersburg Dmitry Krutoy, the Chief Specialist of Russian Geoecological Center – branch FGUGP “Urangeo” Andrey Gorky and other specialists of the industry made speeches at the event.

As Dmitry Krutoy pointed out, liquidation of ecological damage is a question which requires a serious approach and decision. Taking into account that this problem was neither solved at all in Soviet period nor during the recent history of Russia, experience exchange in the issue of ecological damage liquidation, including connected with last business activities on territories of cities is very important.

During his speech Dmitry Krutoy acquainted participants of the round table with the experience of recultivation of polluted territories in Petersburg. According to him, the city started solving this task three years ago. As a result, the dump of Kozitsky plant on Vasilyevsky Island was destroyed and this year works on recultivation of the territory of the dump on Staroobryadcheskaya street are to come to their end.

- To be sure that the territory has been cleared, our accredited laboratories subsequently make sampling based on which we come to conclusions if the ecological situation on the given or other site is favorable, Dmitry Krutoy notes.

In her turn, the specialist of Saint-Petersburg State University Veronica Tarbayeva underlined a need to modify legislation existing in Russia, which is required by modern realities of nature protection activities. In particular, in her opinion, a need to bring at legislative level definitions of concepts such as “ecological damage”, “liquidations of ecological damage” and so forth ripened long ago already.

Andrey Gorky spoke about a need to reshape old industrial platforms. He noted that availability of polluted industrial territories leads to large-scale environmental problems. Besides, not used territories do not make profit for the city budget and thwarts progress of the city infrastructure.

During the round table questions of modern technologies use for ecological damage liquidation, carrying out ecological inspection of polluted lands, technologies of remediation of city soils and so forth were also discussed.

Specialists of Petersburg and EU countries discussed systems of sanitary cleaning of cities

webmaster@lenexpo.ru (webmaster@lenexpo.ru) — 21 Mar 2012 17:18:51 GMT

On March 21^st, a round table called “System of Sanitary Cleaning of Cities” passed within the international forum “Big City Ecology” .

The event moderator was the Head of Waste Management Accounting and Control Department of the Consumption and Industrial Waste Management Leonid Shimarek.

The Head of Development and Project Investment Department of Production and Consumption Waste Management Denis Zavyalov, the Project Director of Aktor S.A. Costas Triantafillou, the Director General of “Improvement and Waste Management” Alexey Gurnev, the Director of Boliden Commercial AB company Olov Boman, the Commercial Director of L&T Recoil company Pekka Kohonen and other specialists participated in the meeting.

According to Alexey Gurnev, you can talk about an innovative approach to development of schemes for sanitary cleaning in cities of Russian Federation and automated management and control only in case of existence of a single state policy for waste management.

The subject of implementation of innovative technologies for solid waste recycling in Saint-Petersburg was also mentioned by Denis Zavyalov. He noted that the most prospective and safe technology of waste recycling is plasma gasification.

Besides, such questions as production of solid fuel from waste, collection and recycling of used lubricant oils in Finland and possibility of cooperation with Russia, as well as construction of grounds for burial of waste with use of geosynthetic materials were discussed during the round table .

Conference “Production and Consumption Waste Management” passed at the forum “Big City Ecology”

webmaster@lenexpo.ru (webmaster@lenexpo.ru) — 21 Mar 2012 17:12:34 GMT

On March 21st the conference “Production and Consumption Waste Management. Russian and International Experience” took place within the business program of the forum, during which specialists of Russia, Germany, Finland and Japan discussed problems of choice and introduction of equipment, technologies, services allowing to use and neutralize waste.

Reports were made by the representative of Production and Consumption Waste Management of Accomplishment Committee of Saint-Petersburg Government Victoria Sobolyakova, the representative of “Shtadtraynigung Gamburg” Rudiger Zihau, the Specialist of Environment of the City of Turku Protection Department Mikko Ekonenn and others.

Victoria Sobolyakova spoke about structure of waste management system in Saint-Petersburg as well as investment projects directed to enhancement of the system. According to her, the city concluded a partnership agreement with an investor for construction of new waste recycling plant in Levashovo town.

Rudiger Zihau shared his experience in organization of events directed to environmental protection in the process of waste management in Hamburg. He noted that burials of waste are harmful and, besides , expensive, with respect thereto since 2005 burial of not processed waste has been prohibited in Germany .

Besides, such questions as development of dangerous waste collection system, waste management legal regulation in different countries and use of secondary raw materials in Europe were brought up at the conference.

Conference “Topical Issues of Environmental Protection in the Cities of Russia” took place in Lenexpo

webmaster@lenexpo.ru (webmaster@lenexpo.ru) — 20 Mar 2012 17:23:05 GMT

On March 20th, 2012 within the XII International forum “Big City Ecology” the conference “Topical Issues of Environmental Protection in the Cities of Russia” took place. The conference was preceded by ceremony of official opening of the forum.

The chairman of Committee on Environmental Management, Environmental Protection and Ecological Safety Provision of Saint-Petersburg, Merited Ecologist of Russia Dmitry Golubev and the Chief Executive of ZAO “Expoforum”, the Director General of OOO “Lenexpo” Sergey Voronkov took part in the ceremony of official opening of the exhibition. Besides, on its opening day the exhibition was visited by the Vice Governor of Saint-Petersburg Sergey Kozyrev. According to him, he saw at the forum a set of essentially new developments in the environmental protection sphere.

According to Dmitry Golubev, in 2012 the forum completely changed its format, now it is oriented to representatives of nature protection bodies of Russian Federation, suppliers and producers of equipment and services used in case of solution of nature protection tasks in the territory of cities.

Sergey Voronkov, on behalf of the organizer of the exhibition - ZAO “Expoforum”, thanked all who took part in organization of “Big City Ecology” for their support thanks to which such a large and significant project capable to solve important ecological problems has been possible to be created. “I am sure that its carrying out will allow Saint-Petersburg to keep its line as the region going in vanguard of all territorial subjects of Federation in environmental protection problems solution”, he said.

Reports at the conference were made by the Deputy Manager of Environmental Management and Environmental Protection Department of Moscow Sergey Melnikov, the Deputy Chief of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Department of Tomsk Region Igor Tarasov and other specialists.

Dmitry Golubev told about ecological policy of Saint-Petersburg. He noted that strategic objective of ecological policy is providing a favorable state of environment. “Special monitoring systems conforming to state standards are created for assessment of environment state in the city”, he added.

Sergey Melnikov shared his experience in solution of environmental problems in Moscow and noted that all Russian cities experience the same ecological difficulties, but each city copes with them in its own way.

The Deputy Director General of “Institute of Territorial Planning “Urabnika” Alexander Kholodov is sure that strategic planning of sustainable development of the city is an effective instrument of implementation of municipal ecological policy. He offered an accurate planning framework and noted that effective planning can increase quality of municipal management and city environment.

Information support of nature protection activities discussed in Lenexpo

webmaster@lenexpo.ru (webmaster@lenexpo.ru) — 20 Mar 2012 17:16:30 GMT

International experience in creation and operation of state information systems in the sphere of protection of environment was shared by participants of the seminar “Information Support of Nature Protection Activities” which took place within the exhibition “Big City Ecology-2012” on March, 20th.

The Vice-Chairman of Committee on Environmental Management, Environmental Protection and Ecological Safety Provision of Saint-Petersburg Nikolay Sorokin, the Head of State Regulation Management Department in the Environmental Protection Sphere Dmitry Frank-Kamenetsky, the Head of Consulting Services Department of Finnish Meteorological Institute Harry Pietarila and other specialists of the industry made speeches during the event.

Dmitry Frank-Kamenetsky noted that creation of the Russian state information system in the sphere of nature protection activities became possible thanks to the Federal law “About environmental protection”. He especially noted that all information containing in the system, with some rare exceptions, is public.

Harry Pietarila shared his experience in organization of the ecological information system in Finland. The system is called “SmartMet” and comprises meteorological data, information on quality of air, and also allows to perform analysis and situation forecasting. Summing up his speech he hoped for continuation and development of existing programs of Russian-Finnish cooperation in the field of nature protection activities.

Participants of the seminar showed interest in the subject and showered speakers with lots of questions.

Environmental issues of Yaroslavl will be answered by the forum “Big City Ecology”

webmaster@lenexpo.ru (webmaster@lenexpo.ru) — 20 Mar 2012 16:32:36 GMT

Carrying out the forum “Big City Ecology” will allow Saint-Petersburg to show once again it is the leader of the region in ecological and nature protection spheres. Within the forum there will be conferences, seminars, field excursions to ecologically significant city objects which will help regional representatives find answers to the questions of their concern in the field of nature protection activities.

As the Chairman of Ecological Regulation Committee of Environmental Protection and Environmental Management Department of Yaroslavl Oblast Anatoly Dunaev notes, today the region, as well as the majority of other territorial subjects of Federation, needs to solve many questions connected with ecological safety and environmental protection. First of all, concerning waste recycling, i.e. possibility of using waste as a secondary resource.

- Such approach to utilization is the most rational: waste can be used again thereby protecting environment from negative impact of harmful components of household and industrial wastes. And in order that such approach works it is necessary to bring into fashion separate collection of garbage. Besides, an important problem of the region is a lack of powers at authorities regarding collection and recycling of waste. We hope that participation in the “Big City Ecology” forum allows us to find correct solutions for these problems. It is very important now because otherwise soon there will just be no place to utilize waste as our grounds are already strongly overflowed. Therefore it is necessary to orient both simple citizens and profile business structures not to utilization but recycling of waste and its use as salvage, Anatoly Dunaev says.

In his opinion, a need for creation of profile department has now ripened to be in charge not only of subject control but also to support ecological initiatives of regions.

- Surely, conversation within the forum will be field-specific. It would also be desirable to get support from regions in the question of waste use as salvage and to receive investment for regions with powers for the solution of the utilization issue, Anatoly Dunaev notes.

For the solution of these and other problems within the “Big City Ecology” forum a number of up-to-date events will take place which will allow regional authorities as well as business structures to orient in the today's ecological market. In particular, “Production and Consumption Waste Management. Russian and International Experience” conference, the seminar “Innovative ecological technologies and equipment” will take place, as well as “Present and Future of Urbanization: Environmental Challenge” conference . Besides, specialists of the area can take part in the round table dedicated to the system of sanitary cleaning of cities.

Delegation from Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug participates in the forum “Big City Ecology”

webmaster@lenexpo.ru (webmaster@lenexpo.ru) — 20 Mar 2012 16:24:40 GMT

Representatives of authorities, leading scientists, heads of field-specific companies will take part in discussion of the most important issues in the field of nature protection activities. Business and science will share the latest developments which are going to help solve state problems in the ecology sphere.

According to the First Deputy Director of Natural and Resource Regulation, Wood Relations and Oil-and-Gas Complex Development Department of Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug Alexander Gavrilyuk, the most significant problems for the region today are ones of waste recycling, environmental monitoring organization, water objects protection, as well as issues on powers distribution between authorities in the nature protection sphere.

- The priority direction of our activities now is environmental monitoring organization in the region which would promote environmental problems solution in our territorial subject of Federation. Waste recycling, both household and industrial, a management system for this process, experience in maintaining regional inventories, modern technologies in the waste recycling sphere – all these are the paramount directions which we are working at and would like to adopt experience of other regions in these questions, Alexander Gavrilyuk says.

He also notes that problems of nature protection activities are up-to-date for the whole country, however each territorial subject has its own specifics. The “Big City Ecology” forum is urged to unite all structures interested in the solution of these questions. In particular, a seminar will take place within the forum which is dedicated to environmental monitoring organization in the territory of the city, a field excursion to objects of automated atmospheric air quality control system will take place, State Unitary Enterprise “Vodokanal of Saint-Petersburg” will show the Main sewer collector of the northern part of the city to participants of the forum. “Big City Ecology” becomes the leading platform for the solution of the major environmental issues of the country for the twelfth time already.

Tver Oblast takes part in the forum “Big City Ecology”

webmaster@lenexpo.ru (webmaster@lenexpo.ru) — 20 Mar 2012 16:19:26 GMT

Within the forum, participants of delegation from Tver Oblast will discuss with heads of companies and leading scientists possibilities rendered by business and science for solution of state tasks in the field of ecology.

According to the Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Tver Region Government Nikolay Protasov, problems of waste recycling and protection of environment are the most urgent for the region today.

- Need of optimal waste recycling technologies choice which would do minimal harm to the surrounding nature is the most important of tasks we face, Nikolay Protasov notes.

These questions will find reflection at the forum which is pointed to consolidate a set of various in their format industry actions. In particular, problems of waste recycling will be widely discussed within the conference “Production and Consumption Waste Management. Russian and International Experience”. Conference “Topical Issues of Environmental Protection in the Cities of Russia” will answer questions of participants of the forum devoted to nature protection activities in the territory of regions. Plasma technologies, innovative ecological equipment, methods of recultivation of the territories, field excursions to “New World - Eco” ground in the Gatchina Region of Leningrad Oblast, to Southwest Treatment Facilities of State Unitary Enterprise “Vodokanal of Saint Petersburg” are only a part of the extensive business program. Attending to these events will allow representatives of nature protection bodies of territorial subjects of Russian Federation to adopt experience of their colleagues in the ecological sphere and see with their own eyes how some or other modern technologies work and, probably, sign contracts for cooperation with field-specific business structures.

Orel city problems will be discussed at the forum “Big City Ecology”

webmaster@lenexpo.ru (webmaster@lenexpo.ru) — 20 Mar 2012 13:49:01 GMT

From March 20th to March 23d, 2012 in the Lenexpo exhibition complex there will pass XII International forum “Big City Ecology” in which some representatives of nature protection bodies of territorial subjects of Russian Federation, heads of field-specific companies, leading scientists will take part.

Specialists of the area will discuss the most important issues in the sphere of ecological safety, environmental protection and show the latest developments of Russian research institutions.

Participants of the forum, which are representatives of regional authorities, can not only share experience in solution of environmental problems but also find answers to topical and difficult questions in the field of environmental protection which require special attention and new approaches for their decision.

As the Chairman of Environmental Management, Environmental Protection and Ecological Safety Provision Committee of Orel city administration Evgeny Cherny notes, today the region needs an intelligent and competent approach to the waste recycling problem resolution.

- According to the order of the Government dated 2010, collection of dangerous waste, for example luminescent lamps, was assigned to municipality. However we do not know how to adjust this process better. Various options are offered, in particular it is possible to involve managing companies in this process. It is very important for us to get acquainted with experience of our colleagues from Petersburg and other regions of the country. Also it would be desirable to bring up a question of returnable cost of containers at the expense of which it would be possible to assign a part of expenses on utilization to the producer, Evgeny Cherny says.

As he said, a problem of wood control is important for Orel. Rules were elaborated in the city regulating content of municipal woods, however there is in fact no body which would be engaged in hearing of cases about its violation.

- The question of ecological education and studies is urgent. In Petersburg this question might be not so critical, but in our city there is a sharp need in ecological education of citizens, Evgeny Cherny notes.

All these questions concerning the nature protection sphere will find their reflection in exhibitions and forum seminars of “Big City Ecology”. In particular, representatives of regional nature protection bodies of territorial subjects of Russian Federation can take part in a conference dedicated to topical issues of environmental protection in the cities of Russia, discuss waste recycling questions within “Production and Consumption Waste Management. Russian and International Experience” event and find answers to topical issues of the region.

Forum “Ecology of Big City-2012" having begun its work

webmaster@lenexpo.ru (webmaster@lenexpo.ru) — 20 Mar 2012 13:37:14 GMT

The first business event of the Forum was seminar “Geological Risks in Urban Areas” whereat geological problems of St. Petersburg and ways of their solution were discussed.

As part of the event, reports were delivered by Nikolay Sorokin, Deputy Chairman of the Committee for Nature Use, Environmental Protection and Ecological Safety of St. Petersburg, Ivan Serebritsky, Head of Department for the State Regulation in the Field of Nature Use and Environmental Protection, Dmitry Frank-Kamenetsky, Head of Division for Governmental regulation of Nature use and environmental protection and other branch specialists.

According to Ivan Serebritsky, surveys are being undertaken in St. Petersburg aimed at geological problems detection which enables their timely solution without negative consequences.

Dmitry Frank-Kamenetsky dwelt on the topic of accounting for geological risks in the course of above-ground construction. He noted that work had been carried out for evaluation of geological risk of St. Petersburg; however, the methodology in place is imperfect and requires improvement, in particular – through accounting for climatic changes.

Additionally, the representative of VSEGEI Elena Nesterova spoke of hazardous exogenous processes and problems of coast protection in the resort districts of St. Petersburg. Nikolay Philippov, Director of “Mineral” State Unitary Company, reported on the problem of St. Petersburg underflooding. Andrey Gorky, Senior Expert of the Russian Geoecological Centre – branch of “Urangeo” Federal State Unitary Company, delivered a report on the natural component of the radiation risk factor in St. Petersburg.

According to the event participants, the seminar became a critical information venues for effective exchange of experience in evaluation of geological risks within urban areas in general and St. Petersburg – in particular.

Specialists discussed Welding-2012 business programme

webmaster@lenexpo.ru (webmaster@lenexpo.ru) — 14 Mar 2012 13:11:42 GMT

The meeting of XV International Exhibition “Welding-2012” working group was held on March 6^th in the Saint Petersburg Society of Science and Technology office.

The meeting was attended by Natalia Averkina, Director of Welding exhibition, Natalia Rubtsova, Director of Welders Alliance of Saint Petersburg and North-West Region, and Tatyana Baskina, Executive Director of Saint Petersburg Society of Science and Technology. The participants discussed organisational issues related to the business programme, in particular to the workshop "Modern Advances and Prospects of Thermal Spraying as Technological Process" which will be held on May 16^th, 2012, in the form of lectures given by leading industry experts of Europe and Russia.

Welding-2012 will take place in Lenexpo Exhibition Complex on May 15 – 18, 2012.

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Zoosphere exhibition will be presented in Germany

webmaster@lenexpo.ru (webmaster@lenexpo.ru) — 14 Mar 2012 12:44:04 GMT

ExpoForum JSC will take part in Interzoo, the largest international trade fair for pet supplies to be held in Nuremberg, Germany, on May 17 – 20, 2012.

Zoosphere directorate will offer the project presentation at its stand and carry on a number of negotiations with the managers of leading foreign companies operating in the congress and exhibition industry and the representatives of partner trade fairs. Among them: Anfalpet (Brazil’s National Association of Pet Food Manufacturers), JPPMA (Japan Pet Products Manufacturers Association), PIJAC (Canadian Pet Industry Association), China Great Wall International Exhibition Company, Ltd, Superzoo (international exhibition in the USA), and many others.

"Automechanika. St.Petersburg" 2012. Press release

webmaster@lenexpo.ru (webmaster@lenexpo.ru) — 10 Mar 2012 20:20:31 GMT

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In the period from 12 to 14 April an exhibition "Automechanika. St. Petersburg " - the oldest international project of the Northwest region in the area of automobile components, spare parts, equipment for garage and service centres, existing since 1993 - will be held at "Lenexpo". A new stage of the exhibition development is its focus on the b2b market exclusively. It is a result of the first joint effort of "ExpoForum" and "Messe Frankfurt RUS" alliance.

Automechanika is a number one exhibition brand in the world in this field. The exhibition is held in 10 countries, and in each such country it is a leader in the industry.

In 2012 organisers of this event - "ExpoForum", which in 2010 acquired an exhibition business of "Lenexpo", and "Messe Frankfurt RUS" - changed significantly the concept of the exhibition in St. Petersburg. This year "Automechanika. St. Petersburg" is focused on the professional community exclusively. The project includes a great business program, jointly formed by "ExpoForum" and OOO "Messe Frankfurt RUS" with participation of the Government of St. Petersburg, and exhibition of automotive components, spare parts, accessories and equipment for garages and service centres.

As compared with the last year the exhibition area will increase three-fold. Foreign companies will make about 50% of the total number of exhibitors - it's a rare rate for Russian exhibitions.

Over 100 companies from Russia, Belarus, Great Britain, Germany, Spain, Italy, China, Poland, Turkey, Estonia and Japan will participate in the exhibition. They will present automobile components and motor spare parts, components for vehicle production lines, service centre equipment, etc.

Simultaneously with this exhibition a commercial vehicles show "InAVTOTRANS", where buses, trucks and other special vehicle models will be presented, will take place.

In 2012 a new level will be reached by the business part of the project "Automechanika. St. Petersburg", which will provide possibilities for strengthening business contacts, discussing the most important trends of the industry and improving qualification of the experts. An international conference "Modernization of Road Transport - Strategy 2020" will take place, as well as round-table discussions in the following topics: use of navigation systems, application of gas fuel plants, specialist training, industrial policy of the city, etc.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a number of additional business activities, including "Suppliers' School" (Organisers: Centre for Entrepreneurship Development and Support, Committee for Economic Development, Industrial Policy and Trade of St. Petersburg), conference "Development of cooperation between Polish and Russian companies in the field of automotive mechanics" (Organisers: Department of Trade and Investment Promotion of the Consulate General of Poland in St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg Association of Automobile Components Manufacturers), workshop "Innovative technologies for training specialists of the automotive industry," round table "Environmental innovations in securing safety of road transport industry in megacities", master class: "Organisation and improvement of efficiency of the car service centres" etc.

Today St. Petersburg automobile cluster is one of the most dynamically developing segments of the city economy. Plants of the biggest world manufacturers of automobiles and their components are located and operated here. The aggregate volume of investments in construction of new automobile productions amounted to appr. USD 1,3 billion. It is expected that by 2018 the annual car production volume will reach at least 1 billion vehicles per year. Vehicle manufacturing promotes establishing and improvement of automobile component production. Thus, it is essential for the city to arrange a site to exhibit new products for automobile industry and motor car market. This is the very mission of the exhibition "Automechanika. St. Petersburg".

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Date and venue for the exhibition: 12-14 April 2012, "LENEXPO", exhibition halls 8, 8а, outdoor exposition

Open hours: 12-13 April: 09.00-18.00, 14 April: 10.00–16.00

Registration for professionals and getting free tickets at: www.aam.expoforum.ru

Entrance ticket at the box office: 200 rubles, privilege ticket 100 rubles.

Organisers: ZAO "ExpoForum", "Messe Frankfurt RUS"

Official support: Government of Saint Petersburg, St. Petersburg Chamber of Commerce & Industry, St. Petersburg Association of Automobile Components Manufacturers.

Patronage: Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation

Participants: over 100 companies from Russia, Belarus, Great Britain, Spain, Italy, China, Poland, Turkey, Estonia.

Key Russian participants: "Kama Engine Plant" (Naberezhnye Chelny), "VolgaAvtoProm" (Samara), "Energomash" (Kaluga), "MotorDetal" (Kostroma), "Spetsmash" (Moscow), GAZ Group (Nizhni Novgorod), and others. A collective exposition will be presented by St. Petersburg Association of Automotive Components Manufacturers.

Key foreign participants: CEMB, Seven Diesel (Italy), Lizarte (Spain), MAHA, Auger Autotechnik (Germany), Exedy Clutch (UK), OIB (Turkey), F.R.C. Int. (Japan).

The exhibition area is 1300 sq.m. (net) of indoor exhibition space.

The exhibition space is divided into several sections: Automobile industry, motor car spare parts, automobile accessories, equipment and tools for car service centres, filling stations, garages and parking lots, tuning, services.

Simultaneously with the exhibition "Automechanika. St. Petersburg 2012" an exhibition of commercial road transport "InAVTOTRANS" will take place. Yutong buses, NEFAZ buses, Mercedes-Benz trucks and buses, YAROVIT Motors trucks, commercial and special vehicles of GAZ Group, commercial vehicles of Volkswagen and other mechanical transport will be exhibited in the open air zone, covering 800 sq.m.

Business program:

Official support: Government of St. Petersburg, RF Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Certification Association "Russian Register", Traffic Safety Institute.

Speakers: Deputy Chairman of the Committee for Economic Development, Industrial Policy and Trade of St. Petersburg K.A. Soloveichik, First Deputy of the Chairman of the Transport Committee of the Government of St. Petersburg I.V. Mailov, Advisor to the Chairman of the Committee for Economic Development, Industrial Policy and Trade of the Government of St. Petersburg, General Director of NP "St. Petersburg - London 2003" G.A. Rozhkov, General Director of the Regional Centre for Examination and Certification of Road Transport V.M. Yakovlev, and many others.

Business program events will include:

International conference "Development and modernization of road transport"

- Round table "Alternative fuel types for modern transport"

- Round table "Motor transport and vehicles' future"

- Round table "Navigation system for optimization of motor transport operations"

- Report "Industrial policy of the city aimed at support of small- and medium-sized enterprises"

- Report "Future of the automotive industry: European trend"

- Report "Prospects for introduction of management systems certification for compliance with ISO/TS 16949: 2009"

- Report "Recent developments in active and passive vehicle safety"

- "Supplier - Customer" Matchmaking, Suppliers' School, Matchmaking
Master classes for service center specialists
Field seminar "Implementation of modern information technologies for public transport management and organisation of travel fees collection," (Transport Committee of the Government of St. Petersburg, Ispolkomskaya Str., 16 A)
Business trips to General Motors (by appointment, for exhibitors only)

Zoosphere exhibition updated exposition plan.

zoosphere@lenexpo.ru (zoosphere@lenexpo.ru) — 06 Mar 2012 14:52:33 GMT

Zoosphere exhibition updated exposition plan.

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ExpoForum has been thanked for helping children

webmaster@lenexpo.ru (webmaster@lenexpo.ru) — 24 Feb 2012 15:27:25 GMT

The churchmen of the Russian Orthodox Church and the administration of the Children’s City Hospital sent letters of appreciation to JSC ExpoForum for the beneficent assistance rendered by the company in the early 2012.

Particularly, the dean of the Sofiysky Cathedral of Pushkin town, archpriest Gennady Zverev expressed gratitude to the company for its purchasing lighting equipment for the theatre of the parochial school of saint co-apostles Kirill and Methodius, as well as for buying Christmas gifts for the children.

The arch-priest of the Church of Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos, priest Daniial Vasilevsky thanked ExpoForum for the beneficent assistance rendered to the children who had to celebrate the New Year and Christmas in the Children’s City Hospital No. 2 (of saint Mary Magdalene). In the name of the hospital administration, its Head Doctor, Honored Doctor of the Russian Federation Avtandil Mikava was speaking. According to him, such a sincere care is the best medicine for the oncoming generation of our glorious city.

Let us mark here that charity is a special profile in the activity of JSC ExpoForum. In the year 2011 instead of the lost historical temple built upon the project of Jacomo Quarenghi and destroyed during the World War II construction of the Church of Smolenskaya Icon of the God’s Mother started. The remains of the church foundations and the single-floor house of clergy of a parish located nearby were discovered in the land plot where ExpoForum is implementing the project of construction of a new convention-exhibition centre. The company reached to a decision to pay the tribute to the memory of the great Italian architect and the people of Pulkovo settlement destroyed during the war who made up the parish of the church, as well as to reconstruct the church by the drawings of the architect and from the photographs kept in the archive.