Aleksey Sokolov

Director of the Vištytis Ecological and Historical Museum

Candidate of Biological Sciences (PhD equivalent), Associate Professor. He graduated from the Faculty of Biology of Kaliningrad State University in 1994. Since 2001 he has headed the Kaliningrad regional public institution "Vištytis Ecological and Historical Museum" and is an expert in natural resource management, the protection of natural and cultural heritage, and environmental education. He is the author of a number of projects in the fields of ecology and culture. He served as the Russian-side coordinator of the international project "Concept for a Specially Protected Natural Area in the Russian Part of the Rominte Forest" (2007–2011). He is the author and co-author of scholarly and popular publications on the natural and cultural heritage of the Kaliningrad Region.