The forum will bring together more than 6,000 specialists from 75 regions of Russia and 10 countries.

The congress program includes over 60 events. Participants will discuss the environmental well-being of regions and cities, the closed-loop economy, environmental monitoring, water use and protection, development of nature reserves, eco-friendly transport, and much more.

The key event will be the plenary session “Advancement Strategy: Dialogue between Regions as a Driver of National Environmental Well-being” with the participation of heads of industry ministries and agencies, as well as leading experts in the field of ecology.

Other key events include the International Scientific and Practical Conference “The Universe of the Polar Bear,” the International Environmental Forum “Baltic Sea Day,” the Industrial Technology Forum “Regional Environmental Monitoring and Industrial Ecology,” the Forum of Regions, and others.

40 companies from 8 regions of Russia will present cutting-edge solutions for environmental protection, monitoring, and ensuring environmental safety, as well as achievements in natural resource management, Environmental protection. The exhibition area will be 5,000 square meters.

The Forum will be attended by representatives of regional government bodies, industrial enterprises, scientific and public organizations, developers of innovative environmental equipment and technologies, and managers and specialists from specially protected natural areas.

Visitor registration takes a couple of minutes and is free. Just fill in application form and an electronic ticket will be sent to your email. It provides access to the exhibition section of the Forum, as well as to open events of the Congress Program. You can present your ticket in either electronic or printed form.

Forum Schedule:
March 24, 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
March 25, 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM

Venue: ExpoForum Convention and Exhibition Centre, St. Petersburg, Pavilion E.

As part of the St. Petersburg International Environmental Forum “Ecology of the Big City,” the Perm Center for Environmental Culture, together with the Vinci company, will present a unique exhibition dedicated to the beauty and biodiversity of the Kama region. Information applications and virtual reality (VR) on display at the stand will help guests experience and live a true journey through the region’s beauty in digital format.

What awaits you:

•  Virtual reality tours — immerse yourself in the panoramas of the Urals, allowing you to “float” above the Usvinsky Pillars, explore the secrets of the Stone City, admire the summit of Vetlan, and observe mighty stone giants (Pomyanenny Kamen, Polyud, and Velikan).
•  Digital photo booth — an interactive photo zone where each visitor can “transport” themselves to the nature reserves and natural attractions of the Perm Krai.
• Interactive applications — an opportunity to learn more about the nature of the Kama region without leaving the space Forum.

“This virtual tour is more than just a spectacle. It’s an installation that inspires people to see this beauty with their own eyes. After the session, many guests begin actively inquiring about how to get to these places to experience these feelings for real,” the delegation noted.

Visit the companies’ booth at the “Big City Ecology” Forum on March 24-25. Don’t miss the opportunity to immerse yourself in the amazing natural world of the Perm Region!

ExpoForum Convention and Exhibition Centre, Pavilion E, Booth D1.1

Registration is required to attend the Forum’s exhibition and congress programs. registration

The Business Contact Center (BCC) will be operating as part of the St. Petersburg International Environmental Forum “Big City Ecology”—an organized platform for direct interaction between suppliers and customers in the areas of ecology, green technologies, and comfortable urban environments.

The Business Contact Center will provide participants with the opportunity to hold individual one-on-one business negotiations, discuss specific tasks, and reach agreements. In addition to the talks program, supplier companies will be able to present their cutting-edge developments and technologies to a broad professional audience through keynote speeches at the Business Contact Center.

Key thematic areas include waste management and the circular economy, air and water protection, environmental monitoring and digital solutions, environmental technologies, environmental business education, and legal support for businesses.

Environmental departments of industrial enterprises, regional environmental authorities, construction and development companies, environmental equipment manufacturers, green technology developers, and consulting, engineering, and IT companies working in the environmental sector are invited to participate.

Following the 2025 “Big City Ecology” Forum, the Business Contact Center confirmed its high effectiveness. Over 1,000 individual negotiations were held during its operation. Participants represented St. Petersburg, Moscow, the Leningrad Region, Ulyanovsk, Perm, Yakutia, and other regions of Russia.

Customers included representatives of environmental departments from major companies, including PetersburgGaz, Gazprom Linde Engineering, Gazprom Proektirovanie, Rosseti Lenenergo, Passazhiravtotrans, KVS Group, LSR.Stroitelstvo-SZ, Transoil, Rosseti North-West, and others.

The event was attended by the Minister of Natural Resources and Environment of the Ulyanovsk Region, the Minister of Natural Resources and Environment of the Kaluga Region, the Minister of Ecology, Nature Management, and Forestry of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), representatives of the Department of Natural Resources and Environment of the city of Sevastopol, a representative of the Consulate General of Hungary in St. Petersburg, and other distinguished guests.

One of the highlights was the Presentation Day of Innovative Solutions in The event featured the Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Yandex Cloud, Schwartz & Partners Law Firm, GruzAvtoMarket, Ubirator, Miakom SPB, the Environmental Training Center, Eco Service Group, Ecology and Law / Your Ecologist, EROST Group, and other companies.

Applications and registration are available on the event’s official website: https://ecology.expoforum.ru/ru/birzha-delovyh-kontaktov

Contacts For participation:

For inquiries about participation:
Elena Vinogradova
Tel.: +7 (812) 240 40 40 ext. 2261
Mobile: +7 (921) 907 47 49
Email: mail: ev.vinogradova@expoforum.ru

Maria Mironenko
Tel.:+7 (812) 240 40 40 ext. 2340
Mobile:+7 (911) 929 22 06
mv.mironenko@expoforum.ru

We invite you to take part in the Industrial Technology Forum “Regional Ecological Monitoring and Industrial Ecology”, which will be held on March 25, 2026 at the EXPOFORUM Convention and Exhibition Center as part of the Big City Ecology Forum. The event will bring together leading experts, representatives of federal and regional government agencies, and key players in the environmental technology market.

Organizers: Association for the Development of Environmental Monitoring (ADEM), ExpoForum International.

 Event Objectives:

• Discuss the implementation of modern standards and certification in the field of industrial ecology and monitoring.
• Demonstrate practical solutions for the creation and operation of territorial environmental monitoring systems.
• Consider innovative approaches to organizing local environmental monitoring at industrial facilities and monitoring the state of water resources.

Welcoming remarks will be given by:

Vladislav Ivanovich Kudryavtsev, Executive Director of the Association for the Development of Environmental Monitoring, Chairman of PTK 716 of the Federal Agency for Technical Regulation and Metrology of the Russian Federation;
Ivan Aleksandrovich Serebritsky, Executive Director of the Association for the Development of Environmental Monitoring, Chairman of PTK 716 of the Federal Agency for Technical Regulation and Metrology of the Russian Federation;
Mikhail Yuryevich Kozminykh, Head of the Northwestern Interregional Administration of Rosprirodnadzor;
Ramila Elmuradovna Agaeva, Chairperson of the State Environmental Supervision Committee of the Leningrad Region (subject to agreement);
Representative of the Russian Ecological Society.

The forum program will open with a panel session“Standardization and Certification in Industrial Ecology.” The moderator will be Yulia Filatkina, General Director of the ANO “Center for Environmental Reforms,” ​​Head of the Department of “Environmental Management and Sustainable Development” at the Academy of Standardization, Metrology and Certification of Rosstandart, Member of the Board of the Association of Environmental Management Systems (AREM), Deputy Chairman of the Project Technical Committee “Territorial Observation Systems” (PTC 716) of Rosstandart;

Session participants will discuss the role of metrology and new standards in ensuring the reliability of environmental data.

Representatives of the following are invited to participate in the Forum:

• Federal and regional environmental agencies (Rosprirodnadzor, State Environmental Supervision Committee Leningrad Region)
• Research institutes and standardization centers (FSUE “VNIM named after D.I. Mendeleyev”, Academy of Standardization, Metrology and Certification)
• Industrial enterprises and developers of equipment for environmental monitoring
• Professional associations and expert organizations

The practical part of the Forum is divided into three thematic blocks:

Practical session No. 1: “Territorial Environmental Monitoring Systems” is a session dedicated to regional experiences in creating air monitoring networks and implementing automated control systems.

Practical Session No. 2: “Industrial Ecology and Local Environmental Monitoring Systems for Industrial Facilities” — presentations on the best available technologies and case studies of monitoring systems implementation in production facilities. Representatives of the Scientific and Technical Center “Environment” of the Federal State Budgetary Institution “VNIIM” will share their experience. Mendeleyev, the Center for Environmental Monitoring of the Chelyabinsk Region, PJSC MTS, and IMC Group LLC.

Practical Session No. 3: “Eco-Monitoring of Surface Water, Industrial Discharges, and Effluents” — the final session will be devoted to modern methods of water quality analysis and monitoring of water user activities.

Participation in the forum will allow specialists not only to become familiar with cutting-edge developments but also to directly discuss professional challenges with colleagues and regulators, as well as establish partnerships for the implementation of environmental innovations.

On March 25, as part of the Big City Ecology Forum, a tour will be held of the Volkhonka Waste Management Plant, a modern, high-tech complex that processes 600,000 tons of waste annually.

Participants will be able to visit the closed production facility, equipped with 270 pieces of equipment, and see conveyor lines with a total length of almost 6 kilometers. The tour will demonstrate how tunnel composting technology works: in just 21 days, food waste is transformed into compostable soil.

The Volkhonka waste processing plant has become an important step in the development of waste recycling in St. Petersburg. Today, more than half of the incoming waste is recycled as secondary resources, RDF fuel, and compostable soil. This is the city’s first project on the path to achieving the 2030 goals of complete waste sorting and halving the volume of landfills.

How to get there:

A transfer from the ExpoForum Convention and Exhibition Centre will be provided for tour participants.
Bus departure at 15:00.

Duration:— 1 hour.

The number of places is limited. Applications must be submitted no later than March 20th.

For inquiries about participation:

Larisa Stefanenko

Tel.: +7 (812) 240 40 40 ext. 2455

Mobile tel: +7 (931) 306 17 07

Email. address: ls.stefanenko@expoforum.ru

To register for the event, please fill out the form in the “Press Center” section of the official website.

Before submitting your application, we recommend that you carefully read the Rules accreditation.

Applications will be accepted until 12:00 (MSK) on March 20, 2026. After this time, registration will be closed.

Join our team of accredited journalists and get the opportunity to cover the industry’s key environmental event!

 Additional information:
Tel.: +7 (812) 240 40 40
Email: address: press@expoforum.ru

On March 24, an expert session entitled “Eco-commandments for a modern city dweller: legislative stimulation of environmentally friendly behavior” will be held as part of the “Ecology of a Big City” Forum.

The event is being held at the initiative of Marina Shishkina, a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, with the support of the Alliance for the Preservation of the Cultural and Natural Environment “Koryushka: High-Quality Public Solutions” and the St. Petersburg regional branch of the Russian Ecological Party “The Greens.”

Deputies will take part in the expert session. The State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, regional parliaments, representatives of relevant executive authorities of the regions of the Northwestern Federal District, members of the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation, and environmental activists.

Main topics of the expert session:

•  The “garbage footprint” of online retail. Eco-friendly packaging — the choice of people with taste.
• Cars — green light for eco-transport.
• Waste separation: from volunteering to regional policy.
• Is unsustainable behavior a violation?

Contact person:
Elizaveta Aleksandrovna Aghamalyan.
Tel.: +7 (911) 927-51-54
Email: agamalian@mail.ru

To participate, please register as a visitor to the “Ecology of the Big City” Forum

We look forward to seeing you on March 24–25at the ExpoForum Convention and Exhibition Centre for the “Ecology of the Big City” Forum!

This year’s Forum program promises to be particularly rich and will cover a wide range of significant topics and issues. The main focus will be on the topic of “Environmental Well-Being of Regions and Cities.”

The main event of the project will be the Plenary Session “Advancement Strategy: Regional Dialogue as a Driver of National Environmental Well-Being,” which will focus on the prospects and synergies of joint interregional environmental initiatives to achieve national environmental goals ahead of schedule.

More than 60 events are planned for the Forum. Key events include:

• International Scientific and Practical Conference “The Universe of the Polar Bear”
• International Environmental Forum “Baltic Sea Day”
• Industrial Technology Forum “Regional Environmental Monitoring and Industrial Ecology”
• Regional Forum “Russian Ecological Society: Shaping an Intelligent Environmental Agenda”

A series of events will also be held on waste management, including construction, medical, organic waste, tire recycling, and other areas. Particular attention will be paid to creating a comfortable urban environment and unified approaches to developing a water-green framework for megacities.

To date, more than 15 representatives of regional ministries in the field of ecology, nature management, and environmental protection, as well as other sectoral ministries and departments, have confirmed their participation:

• Saint Petersburg and Leningrad Oblast
• Republic of Bashkortostan
• Republic of Karelia
• Kirov Oblast
• Primorsky Krai
• Komi Republic
• Ryazan Oblast
• Khabarovsk Krai and others.

Forum Organizers: The Government of Saint Petersburg and the company ExpoForum International.
Co-organizer: Russian Ecological Society.

A detailed draft of the congress program can be found here

* The development of the Forum’s congress and business programs is ongoing. The organizers reserve the right to adjust the Forum program, as well as change the time and location of events.

Hurry to become a participant in the exhibition with a custom stand or a turnkey solution!

A large-scale thematic exhibition awaits you, including group exhibits with presentations of practical experience and achievements of regions in the field of natural resource management, the implementation of innovative high-tech solutions in the environmental sphere, as well as booths of manufacturers and developers.

 Main tracks:

• environmental potential of regions and cities;
• circular economy;
• environmental monitoring;
• water use and protection of water resources;
• development of nature reserves;
• environmental well-being of the metropolis;
• Eco-friendly transport;
• Ecological universities in Russia.

You can learn about all the options for participating in the Forum by following this link:

Additional information:

Tel.: +7 (812) 240-40-40, ext. 2291, 2161

Email: ecology@expoforum.ru

Компания “Урус Умные Цифровые Сервисы”, работающая на рынке с 2017 года, представляет передовые технологии для мониторинга состояния окружающей среды. Основное направление деятельности компании — разработка IoT-решений в сфере экологии, включая платформы для сбора и обработки экологических данных, а также производство датчиков и контроллеров для мониторинга воздуха и воды.

Малогабаритный пост онлайн-мониторинга атмосферного воздуха “ПАК Экомон”

• Компактное решение для измерения более 100 загрязняющих веществ, пыли и шума.
• Пост имеет модульную структуру и весит всего от 6 кг.
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“Эко-дрон” — инновационное решение для мобильного мониторинга качества воздуха.

• Позволяет проводить замеры в труднодоступных зонах и на различных высотах.

Передаёт данные в режиме онлайн, обеспечивая оперативный контроль.

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• Система анализа данных с сети малогабаритных постов.
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Наши датчики и средства измерений компании включены в реестр “Аршин”. Компания обладает лицензией Росгидромета на оказание услуг по сбору и демонстрации экологических данных. Продукция полностью соответствует требованиям российского законодательства и стандартам качества.

“Урус Умные Цифровые Сервисы” стремится сделать экологический мониторинг доступным, точным и эффективным. Инновационные решения компании помогают улучшать качество жизни, обеспечивая чистоту воздуха и воды, а также способствуют устойчивому развитию городов и регионов.

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