Irina Savvateeva

Background

1986, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Diploma in Journalism.

After graduating from Moscow State University, she worked in the newspapers Sovetskaya Rossiya, Komsomolskaya Pravda, and Izvestia, from courier to economic observer. She specialized in economics and politics. Since 2005, he has been managing the Savvateev Nursery in the Shakhovsky district of 40 hectares in the Moscow region. In 2010, she established a nursery in the Tula region on an area of 140 hectares, in 2012 - a nursery in the Belgorod region - 50 hectares. She was at the origin of the formation of the Association of Manufacturers of planting materials. She was annually elected to the board of the APPM, actively worked on the development of the green industry in Russia, actively made presentations at the annual APPM conferences, specialized exhibitions, annually organizes seminars and Open Days in her nurseries, with the participation of Russian nurserymen, foreign colleagues, and landscape designers. From 2012-2015, she was elected President of the APPM. She has done a lot of work on the development of standards for planting ornamental and fruit plants recommended in the territory of the Russian Federation and participates in their implementation jointly with the Department of Nature Management and Environmental Protection of the city of Moscow. For her great public work in the field of nursery breeding, she was awarded diplomas of the APPM. In 2016, she was awarded the Commendation of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation "For many years of conscientious work in the system of the agro-industrial complex." Since 2014, he has been the president of the international festival "Gardens and People".