Press event programme

The subject of the agreement is icebreaking support for international research activities in the Arctic.

Representatives of the parties signing the agreement
Henrik Ake Rohlen, Managing Director, Arctic Marine Solutions AB
Aleksandr Smirnov, General Director, Rosmorport

Honoured Guests of the ceremony
Katarina Gardfeldt, Director General, Swedish Polar Research Secretariat
Andrey Lavrischev, Head, Federal Agency for Maritime and River Transportation
Alexander Poshivai, Deputy Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation
Vitaly Saveliev, Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation

Katarina Gardfeldt

Director General, Swedish Polar Research Secretariat

Gårdfeldt has been appointed by the Swedish Government as Director-General of the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat. The Secretariat is mandated to co-ordinate and promote Swedish polar research; it organizes and supports research expeditions to the polar regions and manages research infrastructure.
Gårdfeldt is the initiator of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) Northern Europe and is a member of the Leadership Council.
She is Associate Professor in Environmental Inorganic Chemistry at Chalmers University of Technology, and is Director of the Centre for Environment and Sustainability, GMV, at the University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology. She is principal investigator in ‘SWEDARCTIC and SWEDARP Swedish national polar research programmes – 2014 and beyond’, a roadmap for Swedish polar research, and was selected through a peer review process by the Swedish Research Council VR and SPRS.
Her research focus has been devoted to atmospheric transport and transformation of mercury species. She has participated in several scientific expeditions, including to the Arctic, Antarctica, and the Mediterranean Sea. Gårdfeldt is the vice chairman of the Environmental Committee at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Vitaly Saveliev

Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation

Born on 18 January 1954.

1977: Graduated from Leningrad Polytechnic Institute, Department of Mechanics and Engineering, with a degree in mechanical engineering for construction and road machines and equipment;

1986: Graduated from Leningrad Engineering and Economic Institute. PhD in Economics.

1977-1984: Worked on the construction of the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydropower plant; over that period, was promoted from maintenance engineer to chief designer at one of the units of KrasnoyarskGESstroi.

1984-1987: Deputy Director of the Sevzapmetallurgmontazh All-Union Trust of the Soviet Ministry of Assembly and Special Construction Works

1987-1989: Deputy Head of the Main Directorate of the Engineering and Construction Department of the Leningrad City Executive Committee.

1989-1993: President of DialogInvest joint venture.

1993-1995: Chairman of the Board at Bank Rossiya.

1995-2001: Chairman of the Management Board of Bank Menatep St Petersburg.

2001-2004 Deputy Chairman of the Management Board at Gazprom.

2004-2007: Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation.

2007-2009: First Vice President of AFK Sistema.

2009-2020: CEO of Aeroflot.

10 November 2020: Appointed Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation.