Our Team

Sergey Fokin

Executive Director of the Underwater Research Center of the Russian Geographical Society

Manned submersible pilot, diver-explorer
Andrey Gorshkov

Deputy Executive Director – Head of Expedition and Research department
Evgeniy Bobrov

Advisor to the Executive Director
Andrey Yarkov

Hyperbaric Medicine and physiology Doctor
Roman Prokhorov

Archaeologist, restorer, diver-explorer
Andrey Lukoshkov

Science Advisor
Alexander Tarakanovskiy

Diver-explorer, underwater camera operator
Sumbat Alexandrov

Diver-explorer
Aleksey Duras

Diver-explorer
Stepan Kichko

Head of project and engineering department
Alexander Prikhodchenko

Manned submersibles pilot
Ilya Korablev

ROV pilot
Vadim Anischenko

ROV pilot
Mikhail Kuzmichev

Head of the MUV direction of the project and engineering department
Alexander Polyashov

Head of the direction of project activities of the project and engineering department
Mikhail Mironov

Manned submersibles pilot/technician
Marina Davydova

Head of Mass communications department

Press secretary of URC RGS
Olga Kaplenova

Information Section senior manager
Nadezhda Rtischeva

Marketing senior manager
Ksenia Kononova

Project manager
Elena Zabolotskaya

Chief Financial Officer
Ruslan Nedbaylo

Head of Procurement and Logistics department
Dmitriy Kovrikov

Specialist, Head of Procurement and Logistics department