08
September
2010
Press Briefing on Completion of “Mirs in Baikal” Expedition Held at 6th Baikal International Economic Forum
A final press briefing was held on September, 8 on
SibExpoCenter’s central square next to the displayed submersibles
Mir-1 and Mir-2 to summarize the results of a large-scale multiyear
project, the “Mirs in Baikal” Scientific Research Expedition
organized by the Fund for Protection of Lake Baikal.
The briefing was attended by:
V.Yu. Dorofeev, Deputy Chairman of the Government of the Irkutsk
Region; М.V. Slipenchuk, Head of METROPOL Group, Chairman of the
Fund’s Board of Trustees; A.M. Sagalevich, Chairman of the Fund’s
Technical Council, Head of Laboratory of Shirshov Oceanology
Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Hero of Russia; А.К.
Tulokhonov, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of
Sciences, Director of Baikal Institute for Nature Management of the
Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences; О.Yu. Gaikova,
Minister of Natural Resources and Environment of the Irkutsk
Region; B.D. Tsyrenov, Director of the Fund for Protection of Lake
Baikal (the briefing’s moderator).
Briefing particepants presented the main results of the
scientific research and discoveries, and spoke of the research
program, unique representatives of Baikal’s fauna and historical
artifacts discovered on the lakes bottom, as well as the scientific
and national significance of the
expedition.
Representatives of the Administration of the Irkutsk Region made
a special emphasis on the expedition’s importance for the regional
research institutes and the role it plays in wide popularization of
scientific research.
The project’s organizers dwelt on the expedition’s mission, its
significance for the development of the Russian fundamental
science, the achieved results and long-term plans of the Fund for
Protection of the Lake Baikal, which had organized this project
according to the international standards. Special thanks were
expressed to all partners of the expedition, as well as those
structures and organizations that had rendered their support to the
project (including The Federation Council of the Federal Assembly
of the Russian Federation, the Government of the Republic of
Buryatia, the Administration of the Irkutsk Region, the Russian
Academy of Sciences, the Russian Fundamental Research Fund, and the
Russian Geographic Society, etc.). The speakers also presented the
expedition’s participants, including notable scientists from eight
European, Asian and American countries, state officials,
representative of the federal and regional mass media, as well as
public and cultural figures.
