On the results of the Fourth Scientific Forum “Genetic Resources of Russia”

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The Fourth scientific forum "Genetic Resources of Russia" was held in St. Petersburg from May 12-15, 2026, at the St. Petersburg Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences and under the auspices of the Vavilov Society of Geneticists and Breeders. The Forum included six plenary sessions and roundtables, as well as two parallel scientific events and poster sessions. A meeting of the Scientific Council of the Division of Biological Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences on biological (bioresource) collections was also held in the framwework of the Forum. More than 300 researchers from St. Petersburg, Moscow, Novosibirsk, Vladivostok, Tyumen, Ufa, Yakutsk, Petrozavodsk, Kursk, Yalta, Saratov, Krasnoyarsk, Sochi, Minsk, and other cities participated in the Forum. Over the course of four days, scientists from 29 regions of Russia, as well as the Republic of Belarus, presented more than a hundred oral reports to the scientific community, covering a wide range of topics – from genetic resources management technologies to their role in active longevity and bioeconomics. The Forum events included detailed discussions of research results and topical issues in the following areas: biodiversity conservation, genetic resources for active longevity, genetic resources for the bioeconomy, legal and ethical issues related to working with biological collections, training personnel for working with biological collections, and herbarium and museum genomics. The results of these discussions are presented in this publication as a Forum resolution.