The article presents a review of the reports of the International Workshop “Arctic policy in the XXI century” (April 24, 2015) in the St. Petersburg State University, Third Annual Meeting of the International Expert Council on Cooperation in the Arctic (24 September 2015) in the exhibition and congress center “EXPOFORUM” and IX International Conference on geography and mapping the ocean: “The Arctic: Geopolitical, political and economic problems of development” (29–30 September 2015) in the St. Petersburg city branch of the Russian Geographical Society.