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15:00 – 16:00
Arrival and check-in

16:00 – 19:00 Sports Palace: 1 Moskovskaya street, Kazan

Dear Forum participants,

On 16 September 2015, we will be happy to see you in the stands of the Sports Palace arena, which will host a hockey match between the Business and Power teams. Let us together support this friendly game!

Transport services will be provided from hotels to the Sports Palace and back to the hotels after the game.

9:30 – 10:00 Hall
Tour of the FinTech Exhibition by Bank of Russia Governor Elvira S. Nabiullina, Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan Ildar S. Khalikov and Minister of Telecom and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation Nikolay A. Nikiforov

10:00 – 10:15 Plenary Session Hall
Ceremonial opening of the Forum with the participation of Elvira S. Nabiullina, Ildar S. Khalikov and Nikolay A. Nikiforov

10:15 – 11:30 Plenary Session Hall
Themes:
  • The government's view of the development of innovation-driven technologies in Russia
  • Professional staff as the basis for development
Moderator:
Herman Gref, CEO, Chairman of the Executive Board, OAO Sberbank of Russia

Speakers:
  • Elvira S. Nabiullina, Governor of the Bank of Russia
  • Ildar S. Khalikov, Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan
  • Nikolay A. Nikiforov, Minister of Telecom and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation

11:30 – 11:50 Hall
Coffee break

11:50 – 13:30 Plenary Session Hall
Themes:
  •  Developing technologies and infrastructure: current trends
  • Network bandwidth and data centre capacity as a barrier to development of advanced financial technologies
Moderator:
Sergey A. Shvetsov, First Deputy Governor of the Bank of Russia
Speakers:
  • Anatoly Karachinsky, President, IBS Group
  • Wan Biao, President, Huawei Russia
  • Andrey Filatov, General Director of IBM in Russia and CIS
  • Pavel Betsis, President, OOO Microsoft Rus
Innopolis presentation
Roman Shaikhutdinov, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Information and Communication, Republic of Tatarstan

13:30 – 14:50
Lunch

14:50 – 16:10
Concurrent breakout sessions and round tables
Plenary Session Hall
Themes:
  • "What people need is not banks, but banking services." Will Bill Gates' prophecy come true?
  • Telecoms operators, retail chains or social networks: Which of these players is in a position to squeeze out the banks?
  • Banks or non-bank financial organisations without branches: a business model for the future or a delusion?
Moderator:
Bulad Subanov, Director, BULAD & Co.

Speakers:
  • Sergey A. Shvetsov, First Deputy Governor of the Bank of Russia
  • Ruben Aganbegyan, CEO and Chairman of the Management Board, OAO Otkritie Holding
  • Oleg Tinkov, Chairman of the Board of Directors, OAO Tinkoff Bank
  • Hannes Chopra, General Director, Sberbank Insurance Company LLC 
Front row participants in the discussion:
  • Aleksandr Sotnikov, Head of Directorate for Development of Digital Banking Technologies, National Bank of the Republic of Belarus
  • Illarion Yalovenko, Head of Financial Products Development Department, OAO Vimpelcom
  • Roman Potemkin, co-owner and CEO, Instabank
  • Victor Lysenko, co-owner and CEO, RoketBank
  • Yuri Gribanov, General Director, Frank Research Group
  • Kirill Gorynya, founder of i-Free
  • Vladimir Shikin, Deputy Marketing Director, National Bureau of Credit Histories (NBCH)
Conference Room А
Speakers:
  • John Turner, CEO, XBRL International
  • Stanislav Korop, Head of Information and Analytical Support, Department for the Collection and Processing of Financial Statements of Non-Credit Financial Institutions, Bank of Russia
Conference Room В
Themes:
  • Establishing collaborative channels among market players, regulators, and federal executive agencies:  the road map for financial market digitalisation
  • Prospects for expanding e-services, including in the financial sector
  • Developing interdepartmental systems for electronic interaction
  • The official portal of the Republic of Tatarstan as an effective instrument for non-governmental oversight: a united information field for federal executive agencies, local government and other organisations
Moderator:
Igor Vittel, journalist, RBC

Presentation of the Bank of Russia's Road Map for development of electronic interaction in the financial market:
Olga Goncharova, Director, Department for the Collection and Processing of Financial Statements of Non-Credit Financial Institutions, Bank of Russia

Speakers:
  • Alexey Kozyrev, Deputy Minister of Telecom and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation; 
  • Oleg Fomichev, State Secretary, Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation 
  • Timur Zaripov, Deputy Minister of Information and Communication, Republic of Tatarstan
Front row participants in the discussion:
  • Boris Nuraliev, CEO, 1C
  • Alexander Pylev, Director, PCP (Central Reporting Unit) at the Yuzhny Port Multifunctional Service Centre, OAO Sberbank of Russia
  • Maria Krasnova, Deputy Chairman of the Executive Board, ZAO National Settlement Depository
  • Maria Shevchenko, Chief Operational Director, AO Alfa-Bank, Moscow
  • Svetlana Strelnikova, COO, SKB Kontur
Conference Room С
Themes:
  • New trends in digital financial technologies: Where will financial services be in 10 years?
  • What is the real contribution of digital financial services in ensuring financial inclusion?
  • Remote servicing and the national payment system: potential compromise solutions
  • Peer-to-peer lending, crowd-funding, crypto-currencies and other FinTech innovations: Do they represent a threat to traditional financial institutions or new opportunities?
  • Tapping the potential of financial markets infrastructure for developing electronic interaction and digital financial services
Moderator:
Mikhail Mamuta, Head of Directorate General on Microfinance and Financial Inclusion, Bank of Russia

Speakers:
  • Pavel Shust, Executive Director, Electronic Money Association 
  • Vladimir Malugin, Chairman of the Management Board, NKO PayPal RU
  • Sergey Solonin, CEO and co-owner of Qiwi
  • Martin Piletsky, Head of Information Technologies, Alfa-Bank
  • Vladimir Salakhutdinov, Deputy CEO, Head of Financial Services business unit, Russian Post
Front row participants in the discussion:
  • Alla Bakina, Head of National Payment System Department, Bank of Russia
  • Vladimir Averbakh, Director, Department for Development of Electronic Government, Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation
  • Andrei Makarov, Director, Financial Services Marketing Department, OAO Mobile TeleSystems
  • Oleg Pokrovsky, co-owner and member of the Board of Directors, ZAO Ocean Bank; Director of Development, ROBOKASSA
  • Maria Gracheva, General Director, OOO NKO Yandex.Money
Conference Room D
Themes:
  • Digitalisation of obligatory types of insurance as a driver for the insurance sector development
  • Creation of insurance history agencies + new scoring technologies = the way forward to providing insurance services without agents?
  • How do insurance companies use advanced telematics functionalities to monitor the behaviour of policy holders?
  • Do electronic mandatory auto liability insurance policies represent an “acid test” for effective interaction between business and government agencies?
  • Remote settlement of insurance claims: What can we expect in the near future?
Moderator:
Igor Yurgens, President, All-Russian Insurance Association, President of Russian Association of Motor Insurers 

 Speakers:
  • Igor Zhuk, Director, Insurance Market Department, Bank of Russia
  • Pavel Samiyev, Executive Director, Analytical Centre  Insurance Institute,  member of the Council for Monetary Policy and Regulation of Financial Markets with Association of Regional Banks of Russia (ASROS)
  • Andrey Yuryev, President, National Association of Liability Insurance (NALI)
  • Vladimir Novikov, Deputy General Director, Sberbank Insurance Company LLC, President of the Russian Guild of Actuaries
  • Dmitry Popov, General Director, OOO Insurance Company Alliance Zhizn
Front row participants in the discussion:
  • Vadim Yurko, General Director, OAO Tinkoff Insurance
  • Evgeny Vasiliev, Director for Insurance Methodologies, Russian Association of Motor Insurers
  • Alexei Tkachenko, Head, Information Systems Department, Russian Association of Motor Insurers

16:10 – 16:40 Hall
Coffee break

16:40 – 18:00
Concurrent breakout sessions and round tables
Plenary Session Hall
Themes:
  • The role of IT companies in developing innovative financial services
  • New players - non-financial companies – new financial market realities
  • Big Data: Is Big Data just a marketing tool for software developers or does it represent a qualitatively new level of business?
  • Big Data: Does the main challenge lie in the volume of data or in its fragmentation (unstructured nature)?
  • Big Data: Storing and accessing information
  • Taking a proactive approach to clients: How can Big Data help?
Moderator:
Ruben Aganbegyan, CEO and Chairman of the Management Board, OAO Otkritie Holding

Speakers:
  • Sergey A. Shvetsov, First Deputy Governor of the Bank of Russia
  • Alexander Khaytin, Executive Director, Yandex Data Factory
  • Andrei Filatov, General Director, OOO IBM East Europe/Asia
  • Dan DiFilippo, Partner, Global and US Data and Analytics Leader, PwC Global
Front row participants in the discussion:
  • Jose M. Buey, Head of GTB Product Management EMEA, Deutsche Bank
  • Alexander Erofeev, Big Data Projects Director, Sberbank of Russia
  • Andrei Makarov, Director, Financial Services Marketing Department, PAO Mobile TeleSystems
  • Illarion Yalovenko, Head of Financial Products Development Department, OAO Vimpelcom
  • Mikhail Erenburg, Vice President for Digital Business Development, OAO Sberbank of Russia
  • Aleksey Minin, Head of Deloitte Data Analytics Institute
  • Vladislav Shershulsky, Technology Cooperation Director, OOO Microsoft Rus
  • Roman Styatyugin, Business Development Director, Advertising Technologies Department, Mail.Ru Group
Conference Room А
Themes:
  • XBRL’s role in integrating the global economy Development of XBRL as the generally recognised international technical language for sharing business information
  • Introducing XBRL to the Russian financial market; integration with the global financial market
  • Prospects for using XBRL for interdepartmental and international electronic information-sharing The experience of other countries in carrying out the “Standardised Business Reporting” programme
  • Practical issues faced by global banks and companies when using XBRL in interactions with regulators
  • The role of IT in reducing costs for financial market players
Moderator:
Mikhail Alekseev, CEO, АО UniCredit Bank

Speakers:
  • John Turner, CEO, XBRL International
  • Olga Goncharova, Director, Department for the Collection and Processing of Financial Statements of Non-Credit Financial Institutions, Bank of Russia
  • Alexey Khersontsev, Director, Department for State Regulation of Economy, Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation 
  • Igor Yurgens, President, All-Russian Insurance Association, President of Russian Association of Motor Insurers
Front row participants in the discussion:
  • Vadim Kalukhov, Deputy Director for Information Technologies, Bank of Russia
  • Eric Cohen, XBRL Global Technical Leader, PwC Global
  • Sergei Neklyudov, Partner, Financial Services Industry Leader, CIS, Deloitte 
  • Andrey Lepekhin, Partner, Head of Information Risk Management, KPMG Russia and CIS
Conference Room В
Themes:
  • Does the existing regulatory framework allow for optimising identification procedures with respect to client representatives / beneficiaries? What needs to be changed?
  • Identification + authentication + a data-sharing standard for verifying information received during the client identification process: To what extent does all of this correspond to the current version of Federal Law No. 115-FZ?
  • Tools for a single entry point to financial markets: current concept
  • What are the prospects for expanding the range of financial transactions in which a simplified client identification procedure can be used?
Moderator:
Yuriy Kormosh, Executive Vice President, Association of Russian Banks

Speakers:
  • Yuri Polupanov, Director, Department of Financial Monitoring and Currency Control, Bank of Russia 
  • Alexey Kozyrev, Deputy Minister of Telecom and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation 
  • German Neglyad, Head, Legal Department, Federal Financial Monitoring Service (Rosfinmonitoring)
  • Roman Chernov, Executive Director, ROSSWIFT
Front row participants in the discussion:
  • Philip Gabunia, Director, Department of Collective Investment and Trust Management, Bank of Russia (to be confirmed)
  • Mikhail Mamuta, Head of Directorate General on Microfinance and Financial Inclusion, Bank of Russia
  • Larisa Selyutina, Director, Department of Securities Markets and Commodity Markets, Bank of Russia
  • Valery Lyakh, Head of Main Office for Countering Malpractice in the Open Market, Bank of Russia
  • Alexey Artamonov, Deputy Chairman of the Management Board, NAUFOR (National Association of Securities Market Participants)
  • Irina Krivosheeva, CEO, Chair of the Management Board, Alfa-Capital
  • Larisa Zalomikhina, Senior Managing Director, Director of the Compliance Department, OAO Sberbank of Russia (to be confirmed)
  • Matthieu de Heering, Director for Russia, CIS and Mongolia, SWIFT
Conference Room D
Themes:
  • Russian FinTech: on the periphery or a new centre?
  • Communication challenges of ecosystem participants: banks, startups, vendors, venture capital funds
  • Opportunities for FinTach projects - government and non-government programmes to support investments
  • FinTech funds and their role in developing innovative technologies
  • Is bank financing available for FinTech companies?
  • FinTech startups: Where are venture and strategic investors looking?
  • The experience of London, Sydney and Tel Aviv in creating FinTech hubs
  • Open API serves as a basis for collaboration among ecosystem participants
  • Financial crisis or the best time to develop FinTech in Russia
Moderator:
Anton Arnautov, Editor-in-Chief and Co-owner of Bankir.ru


Speakers:
  • Martin Piletsky, Head of Information Technologies, Alfa-Bank
  • George Piskov, Chairman of the Board of Directors, Uniastrum Bank
  • Viktor Orlovsky, Director, Management Company of Sberbank's Venture Fund SBTV Fund I
  • Dmitry Kaminskiy, principal owner of and strategic investor in iBank.ru (Interactive Bank)
  • Daniel Gusev, Head of Design and Product Engineering, C24; Mentor, StartupBootcamp Fintech
Front row participants in the discussion:
  • Oleg Pokrovsky, co-owner and member of the Board of Directors, ZAO Ocean Bank; Director of Development, ROBOKASSA
  • Albina Nikkonen, CEO, Russian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association
  • Maxim Shteygervald, Investment Director, Internet Initiatives Development Fund
  • Andrei Leushev, Senior Vice President, PAO Promsvyazbank 
  • Andrey Korolev,  Research Project Director,  Department “Finance, Payments and E-Commerce”, Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO
  • Ruslan Ibraev,  Research Associate,  Department “Finance, Payments and E-Commerce”, Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO

18:30 - 19:00
Welcoming reception on behalf of Huawei (by invitation)

19:00 – 22:00
Reception hosted by the Forum organisers (by invitation)

09:00– 10:20 Conference Room A
Themes:
  • Cybercrime as an obstacle to electronic interaction in financial markets. Key threats and ways to neutralise them
  • Can increased financial literacy (or changes in Fundamentals of Preventative Security courses) help combat the growing threats associated with the spread of remote services?
  • Fine-tuning legislation: how it can help in combating cybercrime
Moderator:
Artem Sychev, Deputy Head, Chief Directorate for Information Security and Protection, Bank of Russia

Speakers:
  • Dmitry Volkov, Leader, Cyber Crimes Investigation Division, Group-IB
  • Sergey Bondarev, Deputy Director, Security Department, OAO Sberbank of Russia
  • Dmitry Bazhenov, Regional Fraud Management Director EMEA, AML Enhanced Due Diligence Investigations, Citibank
  • Evgeniya Potseluyevskaya, Head of the Analytical Department, Kaspersky Lab
Front row participants in the discussion:
  • Andrei Emelin, Chairman, National Financial Markets Council
  • Ilya Kochetkov, Head of Service for the Protection of Financial Services Consumers and Minority Shareholders, Bank of Russia
  • Valery Lyakh, Head of Main Office for Countering Malpractice in the Open Market, Bank of Russia

09.00- 10.20 Conference Room В
Themes:
  • Facilitating the access of individuals to the securities market
  • Creating infrastructure for access of individuals
  • The system of remote contract execution and interaction with customers
  • Investment tools and services
Moderator:
Alexey Timofeev, Chairman of the Executive Board, NAUFOR

Speakers:
  • Irina Krivosheeva, CEO, Chair of the Management Board, Alfa-Capital
  • Vladislav Kochetkov, Chairman of the Management Board, FINAM
  • Andrei Aletdinov, Managing Director, OOO BCS
  • Sergey Kozlov, Senior Vice President, Deputy Director of the Investment Department, VTB24
  • Yury Mintsev, CEO, Otkritie Brokerage
  • Sergei Barsukov, Head, Financial Policy Department, Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation
 Front row participants in the discussion:
  • Philip Gabunia, Director, Department of Collective Investment and Trust Management, Bank of Russia 
  • Larisa Selyutina, Director, Department of Securities Markets and Commodity Markets, Bank of Russia
  • Anna Kuznetsova, Managing Director for Securities Markets, Moscow Exchange
  • Alexander Ospischev, Head of DMA Product Development, OAO Sberbank of Russia
  • Andrey Zvezdochkin, CEO, OOO Aton
  • Alexander Nazarov, Director, Department of Research and Development, ZAO National Settlement Depository 

9:00 – 10:20 Conference Room С
Themes:
  • General environment of venture deals in the Russian Federation and adaptation of AO for private equity (time frame and cost of share flotation for small companies operating less than three years, complexity of attraction of private investors)
  • Current status of regulation of venture deals with participation of many private investors. When does it become necessary to regulate new financial technologies?
  • Need to develop Russian e-trading platforms to attract private equity to be in competition with similar foreign e-trading platforms  
Moderator:
Iskender Nurbekov, Legal Deputy Director, Internet Initiatives Development Fund
Speakers: 
  • Dmitry Peshnev-Podolskiy, First Vice-President of Gazprombank, Head of Gazprombank Private Banking
  • Ildar Zverev, Partner, Tolkachev & Partners law firm 
  • Dmitry Aleksandrov, Deputy General Director for Investments OOO UNIVER Capital 
  • Olga Nachalova, Operations Director, OOO Star Track

10:20 – 10:40 Hall
Coffee break

10:40– 12:00 Conference Room А

Speakers:

  • Nikolay Zhmurenko, expert, co-founder of Smartfin
  • Vladimir Kanin, CEO and founder of Pay-Me
  • Daniel Gusev, Head of Design and Product Engineering, C24; Mentor, StartupBootcamp Fintech
  • Maxim Azrilyan, Chief Technical Architect, Alfa-Lab, Alfa-Bank
  • Pavel Nikonov, Investment Manager, Internet Initiatives Development Fund (IIDF)
  • Stanislav Korop, Head of Information and Analytical Support, Department for the Collection and Processing of Financial Statements of Non-Credit Financial Institutions, Bank of Russia
  • Andrey Korolev,  Research Project Director,  Department “Finance, Payments and E-Commerce”, Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO
  • Ruslan Ibraev,  Research Associate,  Department “Finance, Payments and E-Commerce”, Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO 

10:40– 12:00 Conference Room B
Themes:
  • The development of national payment cards systems throughout the world Key challenges and ways of overcoming them
  • Launch and promotion of a national payment card: necessity and prospects
  • Interaction with international payment card systems: partnership or competition?
  • Prospects for using national payment system cards outside of the Russian Federation
  • The current status of the Bank of Russia’s payment system and ways to improve it
  • Expanding the range of payment services to credit organisations, divisions of the Federal Treasury, and payment and clearing systems
  • Current trends in the development of national and cross-border payments and payment systems: the SWIFT viewpoint
  • SWIFT support for national banking communities in adoption of or migration to ISO 20022
Moderator:
Aleksey Maslov, Deputy General Director, JCB International Eurasia LLC

Speakers:
  • Olga Skorobogatova, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Russia
  • Vladimir Komlev, General Director, AO National System of Payment Cards (NSPK)
  • Matthieu de Heering, Director for Russia, CIS, and Mongolia, SWIFT
  • Andrey Tarusov, Chief Operations Officer, OOO MASTERCARD
 Front row participants in the discussion:
  • Alla Bakina, Head of National Payment System Department, Bank of Russia
  • Irina Kaplunnik, First Vice President - Deputy Chief Accountant, Gazprombank
  • Svetlana Gryanchenko, Head of Cash Settlement, ZAO National Settlement Depository
  • Roman Chernov, Executive Director, ROSSWIFT
  • Sergey Ogurtsov, Vice President - Head of Department of Banking Cards and Electronic Retail Services, GPB Bank (AO)
  • Valery Chulkov, member of the Management Board, Director of Operations Department, VTB 24

10:40– 12:00 Conference Room C
Themes:
  • Pilot project of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation and PFR on reviewing borrowers' income
  • Mitigating credit risks in the banking system
  • Protecting confidential information
  • Developing a positive image for good faith borrowers
  • Achieving greater informational transparency in the financial services market
  • Current issues of NPF-PFR e-document flow
Moderator:
Andrei Emelin, Chairman, National Financial Markets Council 

Speakers:
  • Vladimir Averbakh, Director, Department for Development of Electronic Government, Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation
  • Igor Ilyukhin, PAO Rostelecom
  • Evgeny Dankevich, Chairman of the Management Board, PAO Khanty-Mansiysk Otkritie Bank
  • Martin Schaffer, Deputy Chairman of the Management Board, OOO Home Credit and Finance Bank
  • Abo Pugoyev, First Deputy Chairman, Security Department, PAO BINBANK
 Front row participants in the discussion:
  • Alexey Khersontsev, Director, Department for State Regulation of Economy, Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation
  • Sergey Vanin, Director for Relationship with Government Authorities, AO Tinkoff Bank
  • Eduard Shkaev, Head of the Risk Department, OAO Bank of Moscow
  • Igor Belykh, Managing Director of the Centre for Strategic Projects, PAO BINBANK
  • Dmitry Sorokin, Project Leader of the Centre for Strategic Projects, PAO BINBANK
  • Evgeny Yakushev, Co-Chair of the Joint Working Group on Electronic Communications of the Pension Fund of Russia (PFR) and the National Association of Non-State Pension Funds (NAPF); Chairman of the Board, European Pension Fund (AO)

12:00 – 13:00
Lunch

13:00
Excursions
During the tour, you will explore the historic centre of Kazan and visit the Kazan Kremlin.
The tour includes a visit to the Russian Sloboda (settlement) with its Bogoroditsky Monastery that houses Russia's most revered icon of Our Lady of Kazan (recently returned by the Vatican), Liberty Square and the 18-19th century streets associated with the names of Gavriil Derzhavin, Alexander Pushkin, Leo Tolstoy, Maxim Gorky and others. You will also see Kazan State University - one of the oldest in Russia, and visit the Old Tatar Sloboda (settlement) to get a feel of old Kazan's oriental flavour and to admire Marjani Mosque built in the 18th century.
The Tatars' hospitality is one of a kind as you will learn after visiting a Tatar village of Tugan Avylym.
Among other things, you will have a chance to enjoy unique views of the Kazanka Riviera against the backdrop of new residential housing blocks, and Lake Kaban.
During the walking tour of the Kremlin, you will see the Spasskaya Tower, the leaning Söyembikä Tower, visit the Qol-Şärif Mosque and Annunciation Cathedral, see fragments of Khans's mausoleums, a monument to the Kazan Kremlin's architects, the Gun-Metal (Ammunition) Yard, Spaso-Preobrazhensky (Savior Transfiguration) monastery, the Building of the Public Offices, Taynitsky (Secret) Gate Tower, the Governor's Palace and the Palace Church.
You may also visit the Museum of Islamic Culture, Museum of History of Statehood of the Tatar People and Republic of Tatarstan, Natural History Museum and Hermitage-Kazan Centre.
The tour takes three hours (including a two-hour walking tour).

Situated at the confluence of the Sviyaga, Volga and Shchuka rivers, the island town of Sviyazhsk is reknowned for its history, its Russian Orthodox heritage and unique cultural landscape created by nature and people. Sviyazhsk was founded in the 16th century by Tsar Ivan the Terrible as a formidable fortress used as a base for the siege of Kazan.
Known since the 13th century, originally Sviyazhsk used to be a sacred place for pagans in the region.  Since its foundation in 1551 and the construction of monasteries in and around the town, for centuries, it was an all-Russian Orthodox sanctuary attracting people from all across the country.
Sviyazhsk was one of the first camps for political prisoners, as well as a Gulag camp, in the Soviet era, and today is a place of memory of the victims of Stalin's repressions. In 1997, the ownership of the Assumption monastery was returned to the Diocese of Kazan that intends to bring new life to the historic town. Currently, the historic monuments of Sviyazhsk are undergoing extensive restoration and the town has been included in the Preliminary List of UNESCO's World Cultural and Natural Heritage.
The island boasts remarkable architectural sites, original 16th century wall-paintings, Russian Orthodox cultural and historic buildings, 37 of which are protected by the state:
the Assumption Cathedral (16th century), Saints Constantine and Helen’s church (16-18th century), Trinity Church, the Sviyazhsk Ioanno-Predtechensky (John the Forerunner) Monastery  (16th century),  St. Sergius church and the Cathedral of Joy of All Who Sorrow.
You will see a wooden Trinity Church that marked 460 years since its foundation in 2011. It is an unprecedented example in the world's history when a fort and a fortress settlement were simultaneously founded and populated: the fortress was built in only four weeks by 75,000 people.
The Sviyazhsk Historical Museum will open to you 'the secrets of the island of Sviyazhsk" at its exhibition of archeological finds and unique photos of Sviyazhsk views.
You will get a glimpse of the island-town's incredible fate full of glory and turbulence. You will never forget the exceptional beauty of the smooth water surface of the Sviyaga, Volga and Shchuka Rivers, and the vast surrounding natural areas, the air and the fragrence of flowers and herbs.
The Idle Torzhok — a historical reconstruction, located on the island — invites you to join in the atmosphere of a medieval island, watch medieval fights, act as a warrior or craftsman and enjoy medieval food.
The tour last for four hours.

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