Doctor of Geographical Sciences, General Director of the Engineering Research and Production Center for Land Reclamation, Water Management and Ecology, Moscow.

Prof. Igor Zonn, Doctor of Geographical Sciences, General Director of the Engineering Research and Production Center for Land Reclamation, Water Management and Ecology Soyuzvodproekt (Moscow). Member of the Editorial Board of the international Journal Problems of Desert Development (Turkmenistan). Author of scientific articles and monographs, including encyclopedias of the Black, Caspian, Aral, Japan, Okhotsk, Bering, Barents, White, Kara, Laptev, East Siberian, Chukchi, Baltic, Adriatic, Ionian seas, Arctic Ocean and Danube River, published in publishing houses International Relations (Russia) and Springer (Germany).