ΧΙΧ St. Petersburg International Forestry Forum took place on 3-4 October 2017 in St. Petersburg, in which more than 600 specialists participated from many countries of the world: China, Russia, Italy, Finland, Japan and other countries. Vasilyev I.A. — Director, Stepchenko A.A. — Deputy Director, T.S. Koroleva — the Scientific Secretary, B.D. Romanyuk —  Head of the Research Society of Forest Management and forest regulation,  О.I.

III Championship of Russia "Logger of the XXI century" was conducted from 9 to12 August in the Arkhangelsk region. Director — Vasilyev I.A., deputy directors — Stepchenko A.A. and Petrunin N.A., head of the research department of economic studies — O.I. Vasilyev, head of the research department of forest management and forest regulation — Romanyuk B.D. took part in the "round tables" of the event from  SPbFRI.

The Federal Forestry Agency, in accordance with the Government Decree of the Russian Federation (No. 2621-r of 19.12.2015), dated September 21, 2017 in the city of Arkhangelsk, Russian Federation, is holding the International Forest Forum of the Soviet-Barents/Euro-Arctic (SBEA) region on the topic "Adaptation of forests in the Barents region in the context of climate change".

The agenda of the Forest Forum includes two thematic sessions:

On June 29 - 30, 2017, the  SPbFRI director, candidate of economic sciences Igor Anatolyevich Vasilyev and head of the Research Department of Economic Studies, candidate of economic sciences Oleg Igorevich Vasilyev participated in the XXI Scientific-Practical Conference "System Analysis in Design and Management". The event was held at the St. Petersburg Polytechnic University of Peter the Great.