Penza, 14 April 2016. PenzaNews. Yuri Krivov, deputy chairman of the Penza region government, has headed the management committee for publishing of the second printing of the Penza Encyclopedia.

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He will be assisted by Tatyana Kurdova, head of the regional Department of Culture and Archive.

The committee also features 18 other members, including officials, heads of cultural institutions and universities, and other invested persons.

These include Vladimir Zimenkov, director of the Penza state local lore museum; Tatyana Evnevich, head of the regional state archive; Kirill Zastrozhny, director of the Savitsky Picture Gallery; and Nadezhda Nikulaenkova, general director of the Penza region literary and memorial museums union.

They are joined by Lyubov Finogeeva, regional Minister of Finances; Alexander Voronkov, regional Minister of Education; Oleg Dolzhenko, head of the regional Department of Information Policy and Mass Media; and Victor Kondrashin, member of the Russian Federation Council.

Other members of the committee are: Alexander Gulyakov, PSU principal; Oleg Kukharev, principal of the Penza State Agricultural Academy; Vasily Moiseev, principal of the Penza State Technological University; Yuri Skachkov, principal of the Penza State University of Architecture and Construction; Oleg Yagov, dean of the Faculty of History, Languages and Literature at the PSU Belinsky Institute; Bakir Akzhigitov and Vladimir Pervushkin, representatives of ethnic Tatar and Mordva cultural diasporas respectively; and Nikolai Inyushkin, Alexei Kazakov and Evgeny Popov – the people who helped publish the first printing of the Penza Encyclopedia.