April 14, 2016 at the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment of the Russian Federation All-Russian Conference "Highlights of the Russian Federation of Forestry in 2015 and tasks for 2016" was held. The meeting presented the final reports of the heads of government departments and agencies in the field of natural resources, the environment, industry and trade, agro-food policy and nature management.

January 5, 2016 marked the 90th anniversary of the doctor of agricultural sciences, professor, honored forester of the Russian Federation, chief scientific researcher of the Federal State Institution "Saint-Petersburg Research Institute of Forestry" Eugene S. Artsybashev.

At the next plenary session of the Federal Forestry Agency, Director I.A. Vasilev presented the results of Institute’s activities over the past few years.

The main activities of the Federal Budgetary Establishment “Saint-Petersburg Forestry Research Institute” are:

- The development of new chemical compounds for fighting forest fires;

The representational delegation of the World Bank in cooperation with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO UN) organized and conducted a seminar to assess the carbon balance in the projects and programs implemented in the sector of land exploitation, forestry and agriculture ( AFOLU), which was attended by the deputy director A. Konstantinov of the scientific division of Federal Budgetary Establishment “Saint-Petersburg Forestry Research Institute” A.