URC
Board of the Union of Russian Cities

INTERNATIONAL FORUM
OF LOCAL GOVERNMENTS
"CITIES OF THE PRESENT AND FUTURE"

October 19-21, 2022 // Tyumen
On October 20, 2022, the General Board of the Union of Russian Cities will be held in the city of Tyumen.

The main goal of this Board is to build additional contacts between Russian cities and colleagues from the cities of the CIS, EAEU, BRICS, SCO member countries for cooperation in the economic, scientific, technical, humanitarian and other fields.

Within the Board, the “International Forum of Local Governments: “Cities of the Present and Future” will be held with the support of the Alexander Gorchakov Public Diplomacy Fund, the Administration of Tyumen and the Government of the Tyumen region.

Dear colleagues, we invite you to take part in the Board of the Union of Russian Cities and the International Forum of Local Governments.
Forum founders

Union of Russian Cities

Gorchakov Fund

Administration of the city of Tyumen

Government of the Tyumen region

Agenda
October 20 (Thursday)
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08:30-09:00 Registration
09:00-09:30
BOARD OF THE UNION OF RUSSIAN CITIES
Moderator:
Ignatyeva Alexandra, General Director of the Union of Russian Cities,
Head of Municipal District Tekstilshchiki in Moscow
09:30-11:00
PLENARY SESSION "CITIES OF THE PRESENT AND FUTURE"

Opening Ceremony and Remarks

  • Yakushev Vladimir, Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Urals Federal District
  • Moor Alexander, Governor of the Tyumen region, Russian Federation
  • Kuharuk Ruslan, President of the Union of Russian Cities, Head of Tyumen
  • Karslieva Victoria, Deputy Executive Director of the Foundation for the Support of Public Diplomacy named after A.M. Gorchakova

Speakers:

  • Fadeev Valery, Adviser to the President of the Russian Federation, Chairman of the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights
  • Shevchenko Andrey, Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Federal Structure, Regional Policy, Local Self-Government and Affairs of the North
  • Morozov Sergey, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Regional Policy and Local Self-Government, United Russia Import Substitution Project Coordinator
  • Kharlov Alexander, Representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry in Yekaterinburg
  • Representative of Chinese People’s Association for Friendship with Foreign Countries (CPAFFC) China International Friendship Cities Association (CIFCA)
  • Semenyako Valentin, Deputy of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus, Chairman of the Standing Commission on State Building, Local Self-Government and Regulations
  • Kumar Manish, Co-Chairman of the "BRICSWORLD" Committee, Deputy Chairman of the Commission on Foreign Economic Cooperation with Partners in India at the Moscow Chamber of Commerce and Industry, President of "Soltex Group", Member of the Board of the Financial and Banking Association of Eurasian Cooperation, Member of the Business Council Russia-India, India
  • Polikanov Dmitry, Deputy Head of Rossotrudnichestvo
  • Altay Ugur, President of the Union of Turkish World Municipalities (TDBB), Mayor of the Metropolitan Municipality of Konya
  • Maksimov Andrey, Chairman of the Commission on Territorial Development and Local Self-Government of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation, Chairman of the Expert Council of the Union of Russian Cities
  • Orozbaev Bekturgan, Director of the Union of Local Self-Governments of the Kyrgyz Republic
  • Fominenko Elena, Adviser of the Expert and Analytical Department, Secretary of the Permanent Commission of the IPA CIS for the study of the experience of state building and local self-government, Russian Federation
  • Jiang Yanbin, Chairman of the Board of the Interregional Public Organization of Experts on Confucianism and the Club of Chinese Entrepreneurs in Russia
  • Ignatyeva Alexandra, General Director of the Union of Russian Cities, Head of Municipal District Tekstilshchiki in Moscow
11:00-12:00 ATTENDING THE XV TYUMEN DIGITAL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY EXHIBITION "INFOTECH-2022"
12:00-13:30
Topic: "Digital innovative management of the city. Best Russian and International Practices"

Moderator:

Karavaeva Tatyana, Vice-President of the Center for Strategic Research, Head of the "Spatial Development" department

Speakers:

  • Kuharuk Ruslan, Mayor of Tyumen, President of the Union of Russian Cities
  • Stegniy Daria, Vladimirovna, Deputy Head of Administration of the city of Vladivostok
  • Loginov Stanislav, Director of the Department of Informatization of the Tyumen Region Representative of the CIFCA
  • Dombrovsky Alexander, Advisor to the Head of the Municipality of the Urban District of the Sochi Resort City, Scientific Editor of the Budget magazine, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor, Academician of the Russian Academy of Transport
  • Pashnin Georgy, Architect of company "James Development"
  • Kudimova Alexandra, Executive director of Anlim-Soft LLC
  • Moldosaliev Avtandil, Member of the Board of the Union of Local Self-Governments of the Kyrgyz Republic, Chairman of the Naryn City Council, Kyrgyzstan (not sure if he can speak)
  • Klimanov Vladimir, Director of the Institute for Reforming Public Finance, Head of the Center for Regional Policy, Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation (RANEPA)
  • Stepanov Aleksey, Expert of Center for Speech Technologies, Representative of Sberbank
  • Zyryanova Anastasia, Head of the GEOKAD department of Bureaucrat, Representative of the Rastam company
13:30-15:00 Lunch
15:00-17:00
Discussion 1: "Sustainable operation and comprehensive modernization
of the housing infrastructure. Russian and international experience"

Moderator:

Bulgakova Irina, Chairman of the Expert Council on Housing Policy and Housing and Communal Services under the State Duma Committee on Construction and Housing and Communal Services, Head of the Commission on Housing and Communal Services of the Public Council of the Russian Ministry of Construction, Executive Director of the Association "Council of Housing and Communal Services".

Speakers:

  • Demkin Aleksey, Mayor of Perm, Russian
  • Sorokina Elena, Head of Administration of Ryazan, Russia
  • Balytnikov Vadim, Director of the Center for Research on Problems of Territorial Administration and Self-Government of the Moscow Region


Discussion 2: "Import substitution and parallel imports,
both strategic and tactical the tasks of ensuring the functioning and urban development."

Moderator:

Morozov Sergey, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Regional Policy and Local Self-Government, United Russia Import Substitution Project Coordinator

Speakers:

  • Ezikeeva Olga, President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Tyumen Region, Advisor to the Governor of the Tyumen Region
  • Du Anna, Chairman of the Board of the Syktyvkar
17:00-17:30 FINAL PLENARY SESSION
Summarizing
October 21 (Friday)
08:00-20:00 Excursion to the Grigory Rasputin Museum / Lunch / Tobolsk city tour / back to the hotel
October 22 (Sunday)
  Transfer to the airport