On April 20-21, 2016, the Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University will host an international conference, The Arctic: History and Modernity.

Conference participants plan to discuss the following issues:

• the history of Arctic exploration;
• contemporary geopolitical aspects of Arctic exploration;
• military security and strategic balance in the Arctic;
• environmental and industrial safety in the Arctic;
• international cooperation in the Arctic;
• the historical and cultural legacy of the Arctic;
• prospects of tourism in the Arctic;
• indigenous peoples of the Arctic and their sustainable development.

Graduate students and young researchers are invited to attend. The conference will have a designated youth section.

As a follow-up, conference materials will be published and posted on the National E-Library website (http://elibrary.ru), which means they will also be included in the Russian Science Index, a science reference database.

Potential participants are welcome to sign up by sending an email to stu.history@mail.ru  with "Arctic" in the subject line before March 1, 2016.