The nomination of the "The Putorana Plateau" (Putoransky State Nature Reserve) has been submitted to the UNESCO World Heritage Centre after the documents were corrected to meet the requirements set out in the Decision of the 32nd session of the World Heritage Committee 32 COM 8B.13.

A working meeting "Nomination and management of the serial transnational World Heritage properties" took place at the International Academy for Nature Conservation on the isle of Vilm in Germany.

The set of documents compiled by the Institute of mines of the Ural department of the Russian Academy of Sciences contains the nomination dossier and the application to suggest the historical-natural complex "The Ice Mountain and the Kungurskaya Ice Cave" for the Tentative List of the Russian Federation. In the near future another candidate for the status of the World Heritage property may be added to the Tentative List for the Russian Federation, which at present features 7 natural and 2 mixed properties.

In the framework of the UNDP/GEF project "Sustainable preservation of the bio-diversity: four Specially Protected Nature Areas in the Kamchatka region of the Russian Federation" a steering meeting was held on 28 October in Elisovo to work out the management plans for the Kronotsky Reserve and the South Kamchatka Federal Preserve, which make part of the World Heritage site Volcanoes of Kamchatka.

The seminar was held on October 16-17 in the Tungur settlement (Belukha Natural Park, Altai Republic). It marked the 10th anniversary of the inscription of the Golden Mountains of Altai natural site on to the World Heritage List.