Programme

March 20, Tuesday

Registration
Tea & coffee

Opening
Welcoming remarks

Oleg Toni, Vice-President, Russian Railways; General Director, RZDstroy
Eugene Lukovnikov, Deputy Head, Federal Agency for Railway Transport

Plenary session
Railway Infrastructure Modernisation. New Perspectives & Trends of Innovative Development of Railway Construction Group of Russian Railways

Speakers:
Vitaly Votolevsky, General Director, Roszheldorproekt
Sergey Abramov, Head, Railway Stations Directorate, Branch of Russian Railways
Evgeny Solntsev, Head, Directorate of Comprehensive Reconstruction and Contraction, Russian Railways Infrastructure in Sochi
Leonid Khvoinsky, Chairman, Committee on Transport Construction, NOSTROY; General Director, Soyuzdorstroy Nonprofit Partnership
Anatoly Abdurashitov, Head, Integrated Office “Railway Tracks and Facilities”, Russian Research and Development Institute of Railway Transport
Gennady Talashkin, First Deputy General Director, RZDstroy

March 21, Wednesday

Session 1
High-speed Transportation to Catalyze Innovations in Railway Construction in Russia

• Global practices in construction and operation of high speed railway. Spain and France exemples
• Ballast and ballastless track structure technologies in construction of high-speed lines

Moderator:
Vyacheslav Rybkin, Ph. D. in Sociology, General Director, Lengiprotrans

Speakers:
Denis Muratov, General Director, High-Speed Rail Lines
Gennady Talashkin, First Deputy General Director, RZDstroy
Walter Stahl, D.Sc. in Engineering, Professor, Technical University of Munich
Oscar Nurullin, Product Manager, Vossloh Moscow
Evgeny Gart, Chief Engineer, Vossloh Germany
Igor Serebryanikov, General Director, Transjuzhstroy
Nikolay Yakovlev, Chief Engineer-First Deputy General Director, Lengiprotrans
Yury Veselov, Deputy General Director, MD – Systems

Session 2
Introduction of Innovative Technologies in Railway Construction

• Low Vibration Track (LVT): from localisation to implementation
• Innovative technologies in bridge construction
• Construction of composite catenary supports
• Technologies transfer and production localisation on the basis of industrial facilities of RZDstroy
• Modern maintenance vehicles in construction of high-speed lines
• Update of legal base in construction and modernisation of Russian Railways Infrastructure

Moderator:
Evgeny Dorot, Deputy General Director, RZDstroy

Speakers:
Walter Stahl, D.Sc. in Engineering, Professor, Technical University of Munich
Viktor Yavna, D.Sc. in Engineering, Professor, Head, Department of Physics, Rostov State Transport University
Peter Laborenz, Vice-President, Sonneville AG
Tatyana Romancheva, Manager, Storyindustry – Branch of RZDstroy
Alexander Yakimetz, General Director, R-Industriya
Andrey Andreev, Director, Strategic Development, Novy proekt
Alexey Belyashov, Chief Engineer, SMT-10 - branch of RZDstroy
Oleg Pirogov, General Director, FSK Mostootryad 47
Peter Dydyshko, D.Sc. in Engineering, Chief Scientific Officer, Russian Research and Development Institute of Railway Transport
Vyacheslav Ivanov, Academician, International Academy of Transport;
General Director, Universal Contact Lines
Vasily Kraskovsky, Chief Engineer, LenGiprostroy
Anatoly Zaytsev, D.Sc. in Economics, Professor, Head, Scientific-Educational Center of Innovation Development of Passenger Rail Transport, St. Petersburg State University of Railway Engineering