Nikolay Aibulatov, Head of the Laboratory of the Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow Gennadiy Antokhin, icebreaker captain, Far East Shipping Company Sergei Avakyants, Admiral, Russian Federation Navy Valentin Avilov, Deputy General Director - Director of military equipment production of the Northern Machine Building Enterprise Arnold Bogdanovich Budretsky, leading expert of the Russian Antarctic Expedition of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute Vladimir Chernavin, Fleet Admiral, the last Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Navy Artur Chilingarov, Polar explorer Viktor Chirkov, Commander of the Baltic Fleet, Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy Andrei A. Dyachkov, Director General Rubin Design Bureau Mikhail Izrailevich Genin, Chief Engineer and head of the Zvezdochka [ru] naval repair yards, Arkhangelsk Oblast Stuart Gold, Royal Navy, (UK) Oleg G. Gurinov, Captain 1st Rank, Russian Federation Navy Peter Hattell, Royal Navy, (UK) Mikhail Sergeyevich Kaloshin, Captain of the scientific vessel Akademik Fyodorov of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute Gennady Kolomna, Captain of the training vessel Kruzenshtern of the Baltic Fishing Fleet State Academy [ru] Viktor Lapshin, Captain 2nd Rank, Russian Federation Navy Valery Lukin, Deputy Director of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute - head of the Russian Antarctic Expedition Nikolai Maksimov, Admiral, Russian Federation Navy Gennady G. Matishov, Academician and Director of the Murmansk Marine Biological Institute [ru] Yuri Ivanovich Matveev, Director of the Federal State Research and Production Enterprise for marine geological exploration "Sevmorgeo" Aleksandr Nosatov, Admiral, Russian Federation Navy Igor Osipov, Vice-Admiral, Russian Federation Navy Ivan V. Polozhiy, Rear-Admiral, Russian Federation Navy Ian Riches, Commander, Royal Navy (UK) Viktor Yagubov, head of the polar marine section of the Federal Service for Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring Nikolay Kuzmich Zorchenko, Captain of the training vessel Pallada of the Far Eastern State Technical Fisheries University [ru]