The aim of this conference is to sum up the results of past avalanche work and to facilitate the exchange of information and ideas, particularly between Russian avalanche specialists and other specialists from the world avalanche community for ideas and information exchange.
Some of the topics to be discussed included:
• snow cover stability
• avalanche dynamics
• temporal and spatial avalanche forecasting
• avalanche geography
• avalanche control techniques and protection
• avalanche awareness education and public warning systems
• avalanche search and rescue
• slushflows
• properties of snow and snow cover evolution
• snow drift.