Over 120 national and international companies and experts presented at the 8th MINEX Russia Forum in 2012 offering their views on current mining practices, projects and regulatory developments in Russia’s mining and mineral exploration.

• Elena Abramova
  Deputy General Director Marketing, NVK Gemcom Software RUS LLC
• Timur Aitkulov
  Partner, Clifford Chance
• Denis Vladimirovich Alexandrov
  CEO , Auriant Mining AB
• Alexander Anichkin
  Partner, Clifford Chance
• Valery Asalhanov
  Business Manager of Metallurgical Laboratory, SGS Vostok
• Pavel Babayants
  Chief Geophysicist, “Aerogeophysica” JSC
• Rafael Azatovich Bagateev
  Chief specialist, Mining department, TOMS Engineering
• Dr. Arun J. Basu
  Director, Technical Services, Sandvik Mining
• Robin Birchall
  Director, Forbes and Manhattan
• Julia Boiko
  General Director, Russia, Wardell Armstrong International
• Kirill Boykov
  Deputy Head of Mining Department, “VNIPIpromtechnologii” JSC
• Dmitry Budaev
  Head of Department, JSC “MC” Petropavlovsk”
• Vyacheslav Budrik
  Head of Metals Dept., GKZ (State Commission on Mineral Reserves)
• Andrey Chitalin
  Chief Geologist, Regionalnya Gornurudnaya Kompaniya
• David Cox
  Vice President Sales, Metals Economics Group
• Graham Davey
  Manager, Global Process Support, Metso
• Alfya Deberdeeva
  Project Director, Magadan Region Branch, Polymetal Int.
• Yuri Dik
  Head of Mining Science, Uralmekhanobr
• Mauro Dobran
  Sales & Marketing Manager – Applications Engineer, Cubex Limited
• Laurance Donnelly
  Exploration & Engineering Geologist , Wardell Armstrong International
• Konstantin Lvovitch  Dudko
  Postgraduate student, KSTU
• John Elkington
  General Manager – UK, Snowden Mining Industry Consultants
• Alexander Ezhov
  Director, National association for subsoil use auditing (NAEN)
• Vadim Frolov
  Sales & Technical Specialist, BASF Mining Solutions
• Alexander Gareev
  Head of Mining and Metallurgy, Gazprombank
• Sergey Garmayev
  Vice President of Russian Platinum, Executive Director , Artel Amur
• Galina I. Gazaleeva
  Deputy General Director, Uralmekhanobr
• Ilya Golubinskiy
  Manager, PwC
• Sean Heary
  VP, Sales Area CIS, Sandvik Mining
• Arthur Iliev
  Partner, Clifford Chance
• Ilya Ivanov
  , IEEC / IMC Montan
• Aydin Jebrailov
  Partner, Norton Rose (Central Europe) LLP
• Michael Johnson
  Technical Director, CJSC Runge
• Georgy Kalachev
  Associate, Norton Rose (Central Europe) LLP
• Sergey Kashuba
  Chairman, the Russian Gold Miners’ Union
• Andrey P. Kharlashin
  General Director, RJC Exploration
• Sanzhar Khassanov
  Sales & Technical Specialist, BASF Central Asia LLP
• Evgeni Khrustalev
  Partner, Transaction Advisory Services, Head of the Industrial Products Group in the CIS, Ernst & Young
• Sergey Kobylkin
  provost, MSMU, Moscow State Mining University
• Vladislav Kolosov
  Deputy Director of the Production Directorate, Polymetal International Plc
• Anton Kravchenko
  Postgraduate student, SibGIU
• Pavel Petrovich Kushnarev
  Consultant-Geologist, IMC Montan Group
• Andy Lapworth
  Technical Director, CAE Mining
• Maxim Lesonen
  Mining engineer, MAusiMM, SRK Consulting (Russia) Ltd.
• Jan Lewis
  President, Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3)
• Randolph Lewis
  Managing Director, Silver Bear Resources
• Olga Litvinova
  Deputy General Director, Head of HR, “Matrosov Mine” Open Joint Stock Company
• Alexander Lopatnikov
  Managing Director, American Appraisal (Russia)
• Vasily Makarov
  General Director, “Pavlik Gold Mining Company”
• Ivan Makhotkin
  Senior Geologist, SRK Consulting (Russia) Ltd
• Andrey Makovetskiy
  Market Development Manager, FLSmidth Knelson
• Dmitry Minaev
  Senior Mining Engineer, “Hatch Engineering and Consulting” Ltd.
• Vadim Minin
  Head of Ventilation of Mines, Uralmekhanobr
• Alexei Mojarov
  Economic Affairs Officer, Special Unit on Commodities, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
• Warwick Morley-Jepson
  Regional Vice President, Russia, Kinross Gold Corporation
• Dmitry Moskalenko
  Area Sales Manager , EKATO Russia GmbH
• Anton Andreevitch Mushketov
  Junior Research Scientist, Uralmekhanobr
• Lou Naumovski
  Vice President and General Manager, Moscow Representative Office, Russia , Kinross Gold Corporation
• Ayuna Nechaeva
  Business Development Manager – Russia, CIS & Mongolia Equity Primary Markets, London Stock Exchange
• Nikolay Nekhoroshev
  Deputy Director General for Technology, Vismut CJSC
• Alexey Nemokayev
  Deputy General Director for Economy and Development, Irgiredmet
• Mikhail Nepomiluev
  Postgraduate student, Murmansk State Technical University
• Vitaly Nesis
  Chief Executive Officer, Polymetal International Plc
• Dr Phil Newall
  Director, Wardell Armstrong International
• James Nieuwenhuys
  Chief Operating Officer, Polyus Gold
• Sergey Nikishichev
  PhD (Economics), Head of IEEC, IMC Montan group
• Sergey Nikitin
  Head of Mining Licencing Dept., Petropavlovsk
• Natalia Nikitina
  Head of Mining Licencing Dept., LLC INTERGEO MANAGING COMPANY
• Pekka Nurmi
  Research Director, Professor, Geological Survey of Finland
• Ilya Okhtyrskiy
  General Director, MBC Corporation
• Ibragim Palankoev
  President, SOUZSPECSTROY
• Dmitry Pavlov
  Head of Directorate, “Engineering Komplekt” JCS
• David Pearce
  General Director, SRK Consulting (Russia)
• Igor Pleskunov
  Project manager, mining, IMC Montan
• Anatoly Podoynikov
  Postgraduate student, MSMU
• Yury Alexandrovich Podturkin
  Chairman , Federal Budgetary Organization «The State Minerals Commission»
• Svetlana Polutornaya
  Head of Project Development Department, SRK Consulting (Russia) Ltd
• Valeriy Priputnevich
  General Director, “Management Company “NGK”
• Kirill Pristanskiy
  Deputy Director, Tenova Bateman
• Alexei Pshennikov
  Senior Research Associate, Ore processing Laboratory, Irgiredmet
• Vasily Radzion
  Technical Consultant, Micromine Rus
• Artem A. Romanchenko
  General Director, JSC “TOMS engineering”
• Maria Rumyantseva
  Marketing Manager, CCS Services Ltd
• David Russell
  Director for Global Resources , Ernst & Young
• Yuri Nikolaevich Rzhevskij
  Manager of recruitment and development department, Polyus Gold
• Denis Sagaydakov
  Business development manager, Mining sector, Aggreko Eurasia
• Dmitry Saratovkin
  Senior Tax Manager, Ernst & Young
• Temir Sariev
  Minister, Ministry of Economy and Anti-Monopoly Policies of Kyrgyz Republic
• Vitaly Savchenko
  Chief Operating Officer, Polymetal Int.
• Evgenia Sergeeva
  Technical Specialist , Micromine
• Dr. Nikolay G. Shatkov
  Principal Geologist, RJC Exploration
• Dmitriy Shemetov
  Chief Engineer, Boart Longyear
• Andrey Shemyakin
  Area Sales Manager , Sandvik Mining
• Nikolay V.  Shikhov
  Deputy Head of Beneficiation Department, Uralmekhanobr
• Maksim Shipilov
  Mining Engineer, CJSC Runge
• Akhmed Shovgenov
  Chief Engineer, KAI Services
• Alexander Shtukin
  Key account Manager, Micromine Rus
• Andrey Shulga
  Leading Technical Specialist, Micromine Rus
• Stanislav Shulga
  Construction Sales Supervisor , Manitou-Vostok
• John C. Sloan
  Ambassador for Canada to Russia , Canadian Embassy/Foreign Affairs and International Trade
• Alexei Smirnov
  Partner, Tax and Legal Services, Russian Mining Leader, PwC Russia
• Yuri Smirnov
  Stirred mill Support Engineer, Metso
• Svetlana Olegovna Subbota
  Sales Coordinator in North-West Russia, EHP-Tekniikka Ltd.
• Anton Valentinovich Timchenko
  The head of Yekaterinburg division, “Engineering Komplekt” JCS
• Andrey Tretyakov
  Acting Director General, JSC “Rosgeologiya”
• Sergey Trushin
  EVP for Mineral Resources, Polymetal Int.
• Zulfiya K. Tsherbakova
  Senior Researcher, Uralmekhanobr
• Evgeny Tulubensky
  Severstal Group , Chief Legal Officer
• Anatoly Turenko
  General Director, AMT
• ANDREY TVERDOV
  Head of Mining Development, IMC Montan
• Sergey Vasiliev
  CEO, GV Gold
• Ekaterina Vershinina
  Principal Environmental Consultant, SRK Consulting (Russia) Ltd.
• Gennady Voronovich
  Chief Engineer, Geocentre-Moskva, Rosgeologia
• Georgy Voroshilov
  Deputy Director General for Mining Operations, Uralmekhanobr
• Jeremy Wrathall
  Managing Director, Salamanca Capital Resources
• Ilya Zaraisko
  Principal Engineer, JSC “NVK” Gemcom Sofware Rus”
• Nikolai Zelenski
  Chief Executive Officer, Nordgold
• Anna Zhivulko
  Resource Geologist, SRK Consulting (Russia) Ltd
• Konstantin Petrovich  Zlotnikov
  Director, Project Development Department, ChGRK Ltd