Education · Sverdlovsk Region

Teachers from 43 regions share fieldwork approaches in the Urals

The Russian Geographical Society reports on its national meeting.

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Meeting — 5–8 October; report — 16 October 2026 · 1 min read
Published 18 October 2026 · Source dated 16 October 2026

Talkov Kamen Lake in Bazhov Places Nature Park, August 2019. Kseniia Smirnova (Rigby&Co) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · 2019-08-11. Talkov Kamen Lake in Bazhov Places Nature Park, 11 August 2019. Archive illustration of the park, not participants in the 2026 meeting.

In Sverdlovsk Region, 150 geography teachers attended the Russian Geographical Society’s third national meeting. They explored landscapes in Bazhov Places Nature Park, worked with maps and visited industrial sites in the Middle Urals.

Participants then developed excursions and school lessons from their observations, and designed projects in cross-regional groups. The programme ended on 8 October; the RGS report published on 16 October describes its results.

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Russian Geographical Society — teachers’ meeting report, 16 October 2026

A russia.direct editorial selection based on open sources. Checked 18 October 2026. Practical suggestions are a decision guide, not a promise of outcomes.

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