The scientific forum in Russian and Farsi took place in the framework of the Days of Iranian Science, Culture and Education. The Days is the first complex of events in contemporary history of Russian-Iranian relations, organized by the SPbUHSS in cooperation with the Allameh Tabataba’i University (Tehran, Iran) and supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia and the Russian Academy of Sciences.

The goal of the Conference was an analysis of history and the contemporary stage of Russian-Iranian cultural interaction in the civilized, national, cultural-religious, linguistic, artistic and other aspects.

The following participants took part at the Conference:

Prof. Dr. Alexander Zapesotsky, SPbUHSS Rector, Academician; Dr. Mehdi Sanaei, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Iran to Russia; Mr. Alexander Maryasov, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Russia to Iran (2001-2005); Dr. Reza Maleki, Head of Cultural Representation at the Embassy of Iran in Russia, Embassy Cultural Counsellor of Iran; Dr. Andrey Smirnov, Director, Institute of Philosophy at Russian Academy of Sciences; Dr. Mahdi Hosseini Taghiabad, Member of Management Board of Caucasus Foundation at Shahid Beheshti University; Dr. Nina Mamedova, Section Head of Iran in the Center for Study of the Middle East Countries at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Dr. Vladimir Ivanov, Head of the Department of Iranian Philology in the Institute of Asian and African Countries at Lomonosov Moscow State University; Dr. Mohammad Khorramshad, Head of the Iranian delegation, Professor of Political Sciences of Allameh Tabataba’i University; SPbUHSS Professors Dr. Alexander Markov, Dr. Anna Uspenskaya, Dr. Ludmila Kharchenkova, and other scientists, diplomats, cultural workers of the two countries.

The Conference collection of papers and materials will be published.