Boris Leonidowitsch Tichomirow

Boris Tikhomirov (2005)

Boris Leonidowitsch Tichomirow ( Russian Борис Леонидович Тихомиров ; * December 15, 1955 in Moscow ) is a former diplomat , manager and employee in the Russian Ministry of the Environment and co-initiator of German-Russian cooperation in the field of environmental and nature conservation and co-author of the agreement between the Government of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany in the field of environmental protection from May 28, 1992.

life and career

After attending school from 1963 to 1973 at Otto Grotewohl School No. 3 with extended German lessons and high school diploma, Boris Tichomirow received his university education at the State Foreign Language Institute in Moscow . He graduated in 1978 with the diploma " Interpreter / Translator and Speaker for German and English".

After college came the compulsory service in the army , which he performed as a lieutenant from 1978 to 1980 in Halle in the GDR .

Through his contacts with youth organizations in Halle, which he had built up during his army service, he became a senior consultant in the Committee for Youth Organizations of the USSR in 1980 . His field of activity was the cooperation with youth organizations in German-speaking countries, in particular maintaining contacts with the Junge Union , the Jusos and the Federal Youth Council .

From 1984 he was able to gain experience in international youth policy as an employee of the 3rd European Department of the Foreign Ministry of the USSR and as the III. Secretary of the embassy of the USSR in the GDR, foreign policy department continue to use. His doctorate on the subject of "History of the Austrian Young Socialists" was rejected by the Soviet attestation commission as "material permeated with hostile ideology". That was one of the reasons for the change in his responsibilities in the embassy from working with youth organizations in the GDR to environmental and nature conservation policy.

Before the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in April 1986, there were no state environmental and nature conservation agencies in Europe. It was not until 1986/87 that Western European countries set up their environment ministries (June 1986 BMU ). After returning from Berlin in 1988, Tikhomirov left the Foreign Ministry and switched to the State Committee for Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of the USSR, which was founded that year, later the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Natural Resources of the USSR and after the final collapse of the Soviet Union of the Russian Federation, where he was Head of Department for Bilateral Cooperation in the Headquarters for International Cooperation until 1992. His tasks were to set up and implement cooperation in the field of environmental and nature protection between the USSR, then the Russian Federation, with German-speaking countries (participation in shaping the environmental protection policy of Russia, author and coordinator of intergovernmental agreements with Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Luxembourg, initiation and management of economic cooperation in environmental protection with these countries). As the responsible secretary of the German-Soviet environmental protection commission and subsequently the lead group for the implementation of the Russian-German environmental protection agreement of May 28, 1992, he worked out the first plans for the implementation of the agreement together with the Federal Environment Ministry (BMU) . The working groups formed for this purpose still implement nature and environmental protection projects today. These documents are the basis of today's German-Russian cooperation in nature and environmental protection with numerous programs and projects. Tichomirow formulated similar intergovernmental agreements for cooperation with Austria and Switzerland.

In order to build up German-Russian economic cooperation in the area of ​​environmental protection, he worked from 1990 as a representative of the Russian Federation in the establishment of the Environmental Office East (UB-Ost) of the German economy as a subsidiary of the German Industry and Trade Conference in Moscow, and in 1992 in Berlin was opened on the basis of an intergovernmental treaty. The activities of the UB-Ost significantly activated the European environmental technology exchange. In 1992 he moved to Berlin as advisor to the UB-Ost and representative of the Ministry of Environment of the Russian Federation in Germany. His fields of activity were foreign trade policy, environmental protection policy, initiation of German-Russian economic cooperation in the field of environmental and nature protection (support in establishing joint ventures, company contacts, contacts to Russian and international credit institutions, contacts to the heads of federal and regional authorities, etc.).

In 1998 the UB-Ost was incorporated into the Association for the Promotion of the International Transfer of Environmental Technology - ITUT e. V., Berlin / Leipzig integrated. Boris Tichomirow worked for 14 years in the German chamber organization in Berlin, where he pursued the following priorities until 2007:

• Realization of (pilot) projects and transfer of environmental protection know-how between German municipalities and companies and corresponding institutions in the partner countries,
• Information about the environmental technical and environmental policy framework conditions in Germany and the partner countries for an approximation of environmental legal systems and environmental standards
• Support of small and medium-sized companies in the transfer of environmental protection technologies and technology to the partner countries
• Support in the search for financing options for environmental projects through close cooperation with partners of German federal and state politics as well as the political representatives of the partner countries
• Analyzes and evaluations of environmental policy and environmental technical framework conditions and problem areas as well as the need for environmental technology and technology in the partner countries
• Organization of industry and region-specific information events, conferences, symposia, workshops, training events, internships and business trips with representatives from municipalities, business and companies from Germany and the partner countries.

In ITUT e. V. Tichomirow was among other things the co-initiator and organizer of the German-Russian Environment Days in Kaliningrad.

In 2008 he was the project manager of the education association ARBEIT UND LEBEN e. V. Saxony-Anhalt, 2009 - freelance (project support of the German Federal Environment Foundation) a. a. in the Kaliningrad region.

Since 2010 he has been head of the Central Asia Program of the Nature Conservation Union (NABU) Germany , where he initiated the World Forum for the Protection of Snow Leopards, which took place in Bishkek in October 2013 , and heads several NABU projects in Kyrgyzstan , Kazakhstan , Tajikistan , Uzbekistan , and Russia.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bundesgesetzblatt (Ed.): Agreement between the Government of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany in the field of environmental protection of May 28, 1992 . 1992, part II, p. 1240–1242 ( jura.uni-saarland.de [accessed on March 26, 2015]).
2. ↑ Diploma No. 160339
3. ↑ Federal Law Gazette (Ed.): Agreement between the Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of the Russian Federation on the promotion of economic cooperation in solving specific problems in the field of environmental protection . 1992, part II, p. 1243 ( jura.uni-saarland.de [accessed on March 26, 2015]).
4. ↑ Final report on the DBU project - Az: 24866-42 “Development of a profile for the sustainable redesign of the association for the promotion of the international transfer of environmental technology - ITUT e. V., Leipzig " . Osnabrück 2008, p. 2 ( dbu.de [PDF; accessed on March 26, 2015]).
5. ↑ Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (Ed.): Final report on the project “Feasibility study for the development of a large, transnational Rominter Heide protected area (Kaliningrad region / Russia and Poland)” . Osnabrück 2008, p. 2 ( succow-stiftung.de [PDF; accessed on March 26, 2015]).
6. ↑ Project "Possible uses of innovative environmental technology in Central Asia - Transfer of experience of the German Federal Environmental Foundation using the example of the Republic of Kazakhstan" . Zittau May 22, 2008, p. 4 ( lanu.de [PDF; accessed on March 26, 2015]). lanu.de ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ Umweltbundesamt (Ed.): Environmental cooperation with the Kaliningrad region, German-Russian Environment Days . ( Umweltbundesamt.de [accessed on March 26, 2015]).
8. ^ Official project of the UN World Decade 2010/11 Education for Sustainable Development “Lent Landscapes for Sustainable Development” . Magdeburg 2012, p. 10 ( dbu.de [PDF; accessed on March 26, 2015] lernlandschaften-fuer-nachhaltigkeit.de ).
9. ↑ Possible uses of innovative environmental technology in Central Asia - experience transfer of the German Federal Environmental Foundation using the example of the Republic of Kazakhstan . Osnabrück 2009 ( fraunhofer.de [accessed on March 26, 2015]).
10. ^ Boris Tichomirow: Snow leopard conference planned, Kyrgyz President visits NABU snow leopard project . Ed .: NABU. 2011 ( nabu.de [accessed on March 26, 2015]).
11. ^ Dpa news agency: Kyrgyzstan and Nabu protect snow leopards . Ed .: Zeit Online. May 22, 2011 ( online [accessed March 26, 2015]).
12. ↑ Boris Tichomirow: NABU Foreign Circular 2013/2014 . Ed .: NABU. Berlin 2014, p. 25 ( nabu.de [PDF; accessed on March 26, 2015] Original title: Twelve States, One Goal .).
13. ↑ Albina Meterowa: Interview with Mr. Tichomirow “Environmentalists propose to make 2015 the snow leopard year” . Ed .: Kyrgyz Telegraph Agency KirTAG. Bishkek March 19, 2015 (Russian, kyrtag.kg [accessed March 26, 2015]). Interview with Mr. Tichomirow “Environmentalists propose to make 2015 the year of the snow leopard” ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
14. ↑ BirdLife Europe: First snow leopard caught on NABU camera in Kyrgyzstan . September 3, 2013 ( yasni.info [accessed March 26, 2015]).
15. ↑ Boris Tichomirow: NABU Foreign Circular 2013/2014 . Ed .: NABU. Berlin 2014, p. 26 ( nabu.de [PDF; accessed on March 26, 2015] Original title: Research in the "Himmlischen Bergen" .).
16. ↑ Gulnara Kasimbekowa, Schirin Asanakunowa: TV interview with Mr. Tichomirow, Head of Central Asia Program NABU, about the working meeting of international nature conservation NGOs to set up the uniform monitoring system for wild fauna . Ed .: 1. Kyrgyzstan TV channel (state OTRK), Ala-Too program. Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek March 25, 2014.
17. ↑ Tschinara Karasartowa: TV interview with Mr. Tichomirow, Head of Central Asia Program NABU, about the international conference on Lake Issyk-Kul for the implementation of the global program for the protection of snow leopards . Ed .: 1. TV channel Kyrgyzstan (state OTRK), program Morgenstudio Samana. Kyrgyzstan, Bishkek June 5, 2014.
18. ↑ T. Asykulow, B. Tichomirow: Nature conservation education in Kyrgyzstan: ways of problem solving of nature conservation . In: Journal "Volksbildung", Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan . No. 3-4 , 2015.
19. ↑ T. Asykulow, B. Tichomirow: Protection of the snow leopard and its living areas . In: University news (Kyrgyz scientific journal) . tape 1 , 2015.