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
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