Baltic Region-The Region of Cooperation

Prof. Gennady M. Fedorov, director of the IKBFU's Institute of Environmental Management, Urban Development and Spatial Planning, is one of the leading Russian specialists in economic, social, and political geography. Prof. Fedorov has published over 440 works focusing primarily on transboundary cooperation, regional studies, spatial planning, and geopolitics. He authored the research concept of geodemographic situation. Prof. Fedorov is a member of the Presidium of the Academic Council of the Russian Geographical Society and the deputy editor-in-chief of the journal The Baltic Region.

Prof. Alexander G. Druzhinin is the director of the North Caucasian Research Institute for Economic and Social Studies at the Southern Federal University. He is a leading specialist in the theory and methodology of socio-economic geography, the geography of Russian culture, the geographical, economic, and socio-environmental problems of Russia's South, and geographical urban studies. Prof. Druzhinin has published over 370 research works. He is the chair of the Association of Russian Social Geographers. rof. dr. hab. Tadeusz Palmowski heads the Department of Regional Development at the University of Gdansk. His scientific interests are in Baltic Europe, maritime cross-border cooperation, spatial planning in coastal regions, maritime affairs, seaports, the Kaliningrad region, and Polish-Russian cross-border cooperation. He has published over 250 works. Prof. Palmowski is a member of the editorial boards of the journals Bulletin of Geography, Tiltai, Bridges, Brücken, and The Baltic Region.