Working conference concerning the elaboration of the second cycle of periodic reports and the retrospective inventory of the UNESCO Sites was held in the Russian National Committee of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage on February 24, 2012. Directors of the World Heritage Sites of the Russian Federation took part in the conference among them M. Sharomazov, the director of the Kirillo-Belozersky museum-reserve, O. Voronicheva, the deputy director for restoration and S. Smirnova, the scientific secretary.
The World Heritage Committee decided to work out the second cycle of periodic reports on the state of implementation of the Convention on the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage from 2012 till 2014. Periodic Reporting is a report on the state of the World Heritage Site every 6 years. It consists of the retrospective inventory and the retrospective formulation of an outstanding universal value.
The retrospective inventory applies to all the sites inscribed on the World Heritage List from 1978 till 1998. It is made for the sites which hadn’t precise boundaries when they were included on the UNESCO List. The retrospective inventory consists of three parts: an amendment of boundaries of the site, a proposal on inconsiderable changes of its boundaries and an establishment of buffer zones. The World Heritage Site of UNESCO “The Ensemble of the Ferapontov monastery” was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2000. The sizes of its buffers zones were established that’s why the retrospective inventory doesn’t apply to the Ferapontov monastery.
The retrospective formulation of an outstanding universal value is the second component of periodic reporting. An outstanding universal value is a cultural and natural value which is so exceptional that the site is of world value for all generations. The structure of the formulation of an outstanding universal value was represented at the conference of the Russian National Committee. One of its points is the requirement of the protection and of the management of the site. According to it the general structural system of the management of the UNESCO Site “The Ensemble of the Ferapontov monastery” was elaborated at the museum.
The project of the formulation of an outstanding universal value and the management plan of the World Heritage Site “The Ensemble of the Ferapontov monastery” were carried out in Russian and in English. They were submitted for concurrence at the Russian National Committee on February 27, 2012.
At the same time a new membership of the Russian Committee of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage is forming to work from 2012 till 2013. I. Makovetsky, the Chairman of the Committee and the national co-ordinator of the Russian Federation for the submission of Periodic Reports, proposed M. Sharomazov, the director of the Kirillo-Belozersky museum-reserve, as member of the Committee.
