One of the leading Russian events devoted to the matters of environmental protection and rational nature management is the International Ecological Forum «Ecology of Big City». The Forum organizer is JSC "Lenexpo", acting under the auspice of the Plenipotentiary representative of the President of the Russian Federation in The North-Western federal region, Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation, St. Petersburg Government and the Government of the Leningrad region, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation, branch associations, specialized and business mass-media.