Russian Federation

Official relations

Joined UNESCO: 21 April 1954

Head of State and/or Government in relation with UNESCO

Président de la Fédération: Son Exc. M. Dmitry MEDVEDEV
Premier ministre: Son Exc. M. Vladimir POUTINE

Permanent Delegation to UNESCO

H. E. Mrs Eleonora Mitrofanova
Ambassador, Permanent Delegate (3/5/2009)

Permanent Delegation of the Russian Federation to UNESCO
Résidence de la Délégation permanente de la Fédération de Russie auprès de l'UNESCO 8, rue de Prony 75017 PARIS
Telephone: 01.42.12.84.30
Fax: 01.42.67.51.99 (rue Prony)
01.45.68.26.82 (rue Miollis)
E-mail: dl.russie@unesco-delegations.org
Web site: http://www.unesco.mid.ru

National Commission for UNESCO

President: Mr Sergei Lavrov*
Vice-Chairperson: Mr Vladimir E. Fortov
Second Vice-Chairperson: Mr Alexander Dzasokhov
Secretary-General: Mr Grigory Ordzhonikidze
Deputy Secretary-General: Mr Amir Bilyalitdinov

Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO
Ministry of Foreign Affairs 32/ 34 Smolenskaya-Sennaya Sq. RU - 121200 MOSCOW, G-200 RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Telephone: (7.499 ) 244 24 56 ; (7.499) 244 24 65; (7.499) 244 25 36; (7.499) 244 23 29
Fax: (7.499) 244 24 75
E-mail: rusnatcom@mid.ru; rusnatcom@mail.ru; (for big volume of info.)
Web site: www.unesco.ru

Representation on the Executive Board

Title	Name	Years	Sessions
Member	Mr Alexander Solodovnikov	1954-1956	40-44
Member	Mr Vladimir Kemonov	1956-1959	44-54
Member	Mr Noraïr Sissakian	1959-1964	54-68
Member	Mr Alexander Petrov	1964-1966	69-71
Member	Mr Vadim Sobakine	1966-1968	72-80
Member	Mr Sergei Tikhvinsky	1968-1974	81-95
Member	Mr Leonid Kutakov	1974-1978	96-105
Member	Mr Nikolai Smirnov	1978-1983	106-117
Member	Mr Dimitri Ermolenko	1983-1986	118-123
Member	Mr Guennady Ouranov	1986-1987	124-127
Member	Mr Yuri Karlov	1987-1989	128-131
Member	Ms Rosa Otounbayeva	1989-1991	131-137
Member	Mr Vladimir Lomeiko	1991-1992	138-140
Member/Representative	Mr Alexei Joukov	1992-1995	140-147
Representative		1995-2007	148-177
Vice-Chairperson	Mr Yuri Ouchakov	1998	154-155

Note: The 1991 amendment modified Article V of the Constitution, with respect to the status of members of the Board, which with effect from the 27th session of the General Conference (1993) consists of Member States rather than of persons (26 C/Resolution 19.3).

Participation in subsidiary organs

Subsidiary organs of the General Conference


• Executive Board
  Representative (Term expires : 2011)

Chairperson : Ms Eleonora Mitrofanova

• International Coordinating Council of the Programme on Man and the Biosphere
  Vice-President : Mr Valery Neronov

Member (Term expires : 36th General Conference)

• Intergovernmental Council for the International Hydrological Programme
  Member (Term expires : 36th General Conference)


• Intergovernmental Council of the International Programme for the Development of Communication
  Bureau Member

Member (Term expires : 37th General Conference)

• Intergovernmental Bioethics Committee
  Vice-President : Mr Rem Petrov

Member (Term expires : 36th General Conference)

• Intergovernmental Council for the Information for All Programme
  Member (Term expires : 37th General Conference)

Other intergovernmental organs


• Intergovernmental Committee on World Heritage
  Member (Term expires : 37th General Conference)


• Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
  Vice-President : Dr Nicolay Mikhailov

Member

UNESCO institutes and centres


• Council of the UNESCO International Bureau of Education
  Member (Term expires : 36th General Conference)


• Governing Board of the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning
  Elected Member : Prof. Nina Yefimovna Borevskaya (Term expires : December 2012)


• Advisory Board of the UNESCO European Centre for Higher Education
  Member : Prof. Vladimir M. Filippov


• Governing Board of the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education
  Member : Butko Evgeniy YAKOVLEVICH

Celebration of anniversaries

Centenary of the birth of the Russian chemist Nikolai Nikolaevich Semenov (15 April 1996).

Hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the birth of the Russian ethnologist Nikolai Nikolaevich Miklukho-Maklai (5 July 1996).

Five hundredth anniversary of the publication in Russia of the first State Code of Laws, the Sudebnik (September 1997).

Eight hundredth anniversary of the founding of the city of Moscow (1997).

Centenary of the birth of the Russian film director Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (22 January 1998).

Centenary of the founding of the Russian Museum - Saint Petersburg Museum (17 March 1998).

Centenary of the birth of the Russian physicist Vladimir A. Fock (22 December 1998).

Six hundredth anniversary of the foundation of the Ferapontov Monastery in Russia (1998).

Two hundredth anniversary of the birth of the Russian poet Alexander S. Pushkin (6 June 1999).

Hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the birth of the Russian physiologist Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (27 June 1999).

Centenary of the Moscow Arts Theatre (1998).

Centenary of the Russian Union of 'The World of Arts' (1998).

Centenary of the birth of the Russian writer, novelist and poet Vladimir Nabokov (10 April 1999).

Centenary of the birth of the Russian novelist and journalist Andrei Platonov (1 September 1999).

Hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the birth of Sophia Kovalevskaya (19 February 2000)

Hundredth anniversary of the birth of Nikolai Vladimirovich Timofeev-Ressovsky (2000)

Two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ivanovich Dal (2001)

500th anniversary of the completion by Dionisy the Wise of his last monumental work-frescoes in the Nativity of the Virgin Cathedral of the Ferapontov Monastery (2002)

300th anniversary of the foundation of the City of Saint Petersburg (2003)

200th anniversary of the birth of Fyodor Ivanovich Tyutchev (2003)

1,000th anniversary of the founding of the city of Kazan and the 200th anniversary of Kazan State University (2005)

250th anniversary of Moscow Lomonosov State University (2005)

100th anniversary of the birth of Mikhail A. Sholokhov (2005)

250th anniversary of the foundation of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts (1757) (2007)

200th anniversary of the foundation of “The Moscow Kremlin” State Historical and Cultural Museum-Reserve (2006)

150th anniversary of the State Tretyakov Gallery (2006)

1150th anniversary of the foundation of the City of Veliky Novgorod (2009)

200th anniversary of the birth of N.V. Gogol, writer (1809-1852) Russian Federation and Ukraine (2009)

100th anniversary of the birth of Lev D. Landau, physicist (1908-1968) Proposed by Russian Federation and Ukraine (2008)

1000th anniversary of the foundation of the city of Yaroslavl (1010) (2010)

50th anniversary of the first manned mission to space (1961) (2011)

150th anniversary of the birth of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, writer (1860-1904) (2010)

300th anniversary of the birth of Mikhail Lomonosov, scientist and writer (1711-1765) (2011)