Members Of The Association

At present, the ¨Association of Friends of Spain¨ unites more than 300 persons

• Igor Ivanov, ex Ambassador of Russia in the Kingdom of Spain, ex Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia
• The First Vice-President Mr. Vladimir Beniachvili
• The Vice-Presidents — Alexander Avdéyev, Alexander Badrán, Yuri Zavarzin, Guennadi Makhotin, Serguei Mamkin.
• The permanent Executive Director — Mr. Vladimir Pletnyov — ex First Vice-President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry and ex trade representative in Canada and in Great Britain

«Association of the friends of Spain» unites more than three hundred people. Among the Honorary members of the Association:

• Mikhail Kamynin, former official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, ex Ambassador of Russia in the Kingdom of Spain, today’s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Republic of Cuba
• Alexander Kuznetsov, former Ambassador of Russia to the Kingdom of Spain
• Vasili Volkovski, former deputy of the State Duma of Russia
• Mikhail Nagaitsev, President of the Moscow Trade Unions Federation
• ZurabTsereteli, President of the Academy of Arts of Russia
• Vladimir Urin, ex Director of the Moscow Musical Theatre ¨Stanislavsky and Nemiróvich-Dánchenko¨, today’s Director General of the Bolshoy Theatre of Russia
• Vladimir Vasilyev and Mikhail Lavrovsky, ballet artists, ballet masters, choreographers of the Moscow Academic “Bolshoy” Theatre
• Viacheslav Koloskov, Honourable President of the Football Union of Russia
• Alexander Nikitin, responsible official of the Department of Affairs of the President of the Russian Federation
• Viacheslav Bykov, ice hockey fivefold world champion and olympic double champion
• Alexander Tukmanov, President of the Football Club ¨Torpedo¨
• Arkady Arkanov, writer
• Yuri Semin, known Russian football coach
• Zurab Sakhokiya, Margó Ruano, Ludmila Lavrina, prominent representatives of the Moscow Musical Theatre ¨Stanislavski and Nemiróvich-Dánchenko¨
• Serguei Pavlov and Anzor Kavazashvili, football officials
• Igor Medvedev, Doctor of Medical Sciences, director of the ¨Ocular Surgery Center¨
• Guivi Chikvanaya, water polo coach
• Yuri Osipov, ex Vice-Minister of Food Industry of Georgia
• Igor Shvan and Valentin Krivich, hispanists, graduated from the Translators’ Faculty of the First Moscow State Institute of Foreign Languages ¨Maurice Thorez¨ (today’s University of Linguistics)
• Natella and Teymuraz Beniachvili
• Boris Blokhin, ex footballer
• During many years the Association of Friends of Spain was headed by its Honourable President, Mr. Alexander Efimov, twice Hero of the Soviet Union, Marshal of Aviation, lamentably deceased

Potential partners of the «Association of friends of Spain in Russia and Spain

• Management of foreign institutions of the Moscow Patriarchate in the person of the head of the Archbishop of Yegorievsk Vladyka Mark
• Moscow Federation of professional unions in the person of Mr Nagajceva M. D.
• Moscow musical theatre of Stanislavsky Nemirovich-Danchenko
• The Spanish company «KORACHA S.L.», represented by its President Mr. Mateo Pichardo Espina