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Results of Trophy commission meeting. Dear Members of the Club of Mountain Hunters! The regular meeting of the Trophy commission of the CMH took place on February 9. A number of important decisions were made at the meeting. We need to remind that the rules for trophy registration have been changed. All applications (reports) have to be approved by the Trophy Commission. The filling accuracy of the report is of great importance. We ask you to pay attention to the following things: 1. It's necessary to verify the future hunting location with the with the club's requirements for the hunting region of this species. Will you pay attention to the to morphological features of the trophy that are obligatory for some species. 2. We draw attention to the need: a) To fill accuracy all info concerning the region and place of the hunt   Administrative units concern to the hunting location are regions, republics, states, provinces. The place where the trophy has been got includes geographic points - a gorge, a mountain range, the upper reaches of the river, the nearest village / village. b) To provide the high-quality pictures of trophies from the place where it has been got. 3. We should notify you that the Club commission reserves the right to connect with the legal unity or individuals, mentioned in the reports as the hunting outfitter, to clarify the details of the hunt or to ask for the hunting permit/license copy. The commission can refuse to register the trophy if there are not the necessary docs. Particular attention is paid to the species taken at an unspecified time or in countries / regions where hunting is not carried out on a regular basis. The hunting license is the mandatory requirement in such case. 4. The species included in the Red Book of Rare species of the Russian Federation and the other regions of the Russian Federation at the time when they have been hunted are not accepted for registration. All other reports, published before, have been checked by the Trophy Commission for compliance with these requirements. The Trophy Commission will send individual information letters to those Club members, in whose report’s inconsistencies have been identified. We kindly ask you to bear with them and to make any necessary adjustments to the reports. If the changes influence the ratings of the hunter and his trophy awards, we'd provide him the opportunity to hunt that trophy once again in the next three years.   Taking into account that hunting with a bow and a crossbow is legally allowed in Russia and in order to popularize this type of hunting, the Club considers it necessary to highlight a trophy got with a bow or crossbow with a special sign. In addition, the rating points for those trophies will be rated with a coefficient of 2.

Hossein Goalapchi, known among all hunters as Sudi, passed away on January 22. Sudi Golapchi was born in Iran where he started his hunting career at 16 years old. He remembered that being a boy, he had got there much more sheep than he had to because hunted for meat not for trophies. In 1980, Sudi emigrated to the United States. Later he became the owner of the very successful company Golmar Construction and Development Co. in Augusta and became interested in trophy hunting all over the world. He got the collection of Grand Slams. In 1990 he felt in love with hunting for Marco Polo in Tajikistan. Jury Matisson became his friend whom he visited several times in a year, flying to Pamir. There is not another man who has hunted for Marco Polo more than Sudi. Almost each year he got the argali with horns more than 60 inches! He’s hunted mountain ungulates in all possible destination in the world, and has lots of world records and trophies from the TOP 10 of the SCI Record Book. In 2004, he became one of five people in the world who got Ovis World Slam Super 40. In 2012 he’s got Capra World Slam Super 30 and one from these trophies Mid Asian Ibex from Tajikistan is the world record. In 2013 Hussein Golapchi won SCI World Conservation and Hunting Award. At home, in Georgia he established the Museum where presented his trophy collection. It consists of about five hundred animals from all over the world which presents more than 200 different species. Many hunters want to get high results in the trophy hunting but not all of them choose legal ways. But everybody who knew Hossein Golapchi confirm that he was exceptionally decent in this respect. The CMH expresses its sincere condolences to the family, friends and acquaintances of Hussein Sudi Golabchi. We will remember his extraordinary personality and the memory of him will always remain in our hearts.

The new changes to the “Guns law” will go into effect on March 9,2021. They will change the gun’ transport procedure from permissive to the notification type for Russian hunters who are going to EurAsEC countries (Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan) and will facilitate gun’s import to Russia for foreign hunters. In total the procedure for foreign hunters will stay the same. The hunters, who enter Russian Federation will have to get the gun’ permit issued by Rosgvardia. It has to be draw by the request on the inviting side - the Russian legal unity or a individual entrepreneur who has the hunting farm. The key amendment of the law is the possibility to register the gun import permit not by the local outfitters only and by the location where they are registered but by their authorized representatives (agencies) by the location where they are registered. It helps the owners of hunting farms to expand their possibilities to use the help of other professional hunting agents to register all necessary permits to attracts hunting tourists. I’d attract your attention to the fact that all hunting agents have to comply with the laws not only the “Guns law” but also the Advertising and touristic laws. The last example is when the Profi Hunt company has published the ads about hunting in Sudan where guaranteed 100% of success. https://kgo-club.ru/stati/item/ohota-v-sudane-s-profihant.html). We know about the situation in the country where all trophy hunts were prohibited there during the last years, the number of animals’ populations had reduced, the hunting agencies changed. Nowadays the foreign hunters can’t import and hunt with their own guns. The ads published on behalf of a non-existent legal entity mislead the hunters and affects the norms of administrative and criminal legislation. https://www.rusprofile.ru/id/4072627 That entity is not the outfitter and can't provide the financial support of responsibility https://tourism.gov.ru/operators/ In other words, the Russian hunting companies have two months to prepare for innovations, to sign the relevant agreements with hunting estates owners, to develop appropriate trips, and to prepare promotional materials for foreign hunters. The companies who advertise 100% success can use this time to check their compliance to the requirements of the legislation. The professional organization of hunting expeditions and high-quality service can increase the demand for this kind of hunting from foreign hunters and hunters from Russia. It’ll give an impetus to the further development of the entire hunting industry in Russia.

17 декабря 2020 года состоялась традиционная Новогодняя встреча членов Клуба горных охотников!Представляем фотографии церемонии награждения.Памятными плакетками были награждены спонсоры проекта "Восстановление популяций кавказской серны и безоарового козла на Северном Кавказе". Президент Росохотрыболовсоюза Арамилева Татьяна Сергеевна вручила награды «Великолепная семерка» и «Горная пятерка»: Андреева Марина – Горная пятеркаБачурин Сергей – Горная пятеркаСеменов Михаил – Горная пятеркаЦеханов Вячеслав - Великолепная семерка Президент Клуба горных охотников Эдуард Бендерский от имени Норберта Улльманна вручил Международный приз УЛЛЬМАННА Юрию Васильеву.Сертификатами за достижение новых уровней в номинациях Клуба горных охотников были награждены: Арифуллин Эльдар «Российский Кавказский приз» Золото«Большой кавказский приз»Бронза Донцов Игорь Российский кавказский призБронза Хромов Иван Российский кавказский призБронза Сааков Вячеслав Российский кавказский призБронза Губин Павел Российский кавказский призСеребро Разживин Сергей «Снежные бараны России» Бронза Тютчев Сергей «Снежные бараны России» Бронза Старостин Спиридон «Снежные бараны России» Бронза Ястржембский Сергей «Снежные бараны России» Бронза Шевченко Алексей «Снежные бараны России» Серебро Андреева Маруся «Российский кавказский приз» Серебро Иванов Дмитрий «Российский кавказский приз» Золото«Большой кавказский приз» Бронза Шайхутдинов Рифат «Российский кавказский приз» Золото«Большой кавказский приз» Бронза Назаркин Сергей «Бараны мира» Васильев Юрий «Большой кавказский приз» Серебро«Козлы мира» Супер 30 Иванов Михаил «Российский кавказский приз» Бриллиант Ким Алексей «Бараны мира Супер» 20 Широков Евгений «Большой кавказский приз Золото» «Козероги мира» Серебро «Мархуры мира» Серебро «Снежные бараны России» Бриллиант Молчанов Артем «Большой Кавказский приз» Серебро «Снежные бараны России» Серебро «Российский Кавказский приз» Бриллиант «Козлы мира» Супер 20 «Серны мира» Бронза Плакетками и Призами Клуба горных охотников были награждены: Цеханов Вячеслав «Козлы мира» Супер 20 ПЛАКЕТКА Бачурин Сергей «Российский кавказский приз» Бриллиант ПРИЗ Васильев Юрий «Серны мира» Бриллиант ПРИЗ«Снежные бараны России» Бриллиант ПРИЗ Шайхутдинов Рифат «Снежные бараны России» Бриллиант ПРИЗ/ПЛАКЕТКА Заика Андрей «Козлы мира» ПРИЗ Мазуркевич Сергей «Бараны мира Супер 20» ПРИЗ«Козлы мира Супер 20» ПРИЗ Резник Владислав «Бараны мира» Супер 40 ПРИЗ«Козлы мира» Супер 40 ПРИЗ Бендерский Эдуард «Козлы мира» Супер 50 ПРИЗ «Бараны мира» Супер 40 ПРИЗ «Российским Кубком горного охотника» были награждены:Широков Евгений Васильев Юрий Награду ГОРНЫЙ ОХОТНИК ГОДА 2020 в этом году получил Евгений Широков (за отчетный период им добыто 18 трофеев горных копытных из рейтинговых списков Клуба горных охотников). ПРИЗ РОССИЙСКИЙ СУПЕР КУБОК, учрежденный Клубом за добычу 35 подвидов охотничьих животных России, Номер 1 получил Егоров Александр.

Уважаемые члены Клуба! Напоминаем всем, кто планирует принять участие в Новогоднем вечере КГО  в четверг 17 декабря о необходимости сдать тест ПЦР на вирус COVID-19 не ранее, чем за 48 часов до мероприятия (для тех у кого нет прививки). При обнаружении вируса просьба воздержаться от посещения вечера. Спасибо за понимание!

Теперь для того, чтобы приехать поохотиться со своим оружием и патронами в любую из стран - участниц ЕАЭС, гражданам РФ достаточно будет получить разрешение уполномоченного органа по месту охоты. Президент России Владимир Путин подписал закон, который упрощает порядок перемещения охотничьего оружия через границы РФ со странами - участницами Евразийского экономического союза и приводит положения законодательства в соответствие с нормами ЕАЭС. Документ опубликован во вторник на официальном портале правовой информации. Как разъяснил ранее соавтор инициативы, глава комитета Госдумы по безопасности и противодействию коррупции Василий Пискарев, теперь для того, чтобы приехать поохотиться со своим оружием и патронами в любую из стран - участниц ЕАЭС, гражданам РФ достаточно будет получить разрешение уполномоченного органа по месту охоты. Такие же нормы будут действовать и в России в отношении охотников из входящих в организацию стран - Армении, Белоруссии, Казахстана и Киргизии. До принятия данного закона россияне, решившие поохотиться за рубежом, обязаны были получать разрешение на вывоз оружия в Росгвардии, разрешение же на его ввоз давала аналогичная служба принимающей стороны. При этом соглашение, подписанное в 2016 году странами ЕАЭС, предусматривает более простую процедуру - получение разрешения только по месту охоты. "Принятие законопроекта приведет национальное законодательство в соответствие с международными соглашениями РФ, снизит административные барьеры для граждан России, а также устранит имеющиеся пробелы в законодательном регулировании отношений в сфере оборота охотничьего оружия", - указывалось в пояснительной записке. Ссылка на источник: https://tass.ru/obschestvo/10199145

Dear Club Members! The Club of Mountain Hunter is the Fund by its form and its goal is to support the scientific programs, aimed to study mountains ungulates. Our mission is to save and to improve the population of the hunting animals. Few years ago we supported the translation and the publication in Russian two-volume Atlas with the detailed information about hundreds of species, inhabitant in the mountains. The Club’s members together with the Institute of Animal Husbandry actively collect the samples of biological material to continue the scientific work to clarify of the gene pool of wild goats and sheep and heir biological classification. We are going to implement the project which will help to reproduce the population of the Bezoar goat and Caucasian chamois in the North Caucasus mountains. We plan to build the hatchery for breeding these species. All-Russian Research Institute of Environmental Protection “Ecology” (Federal state budgetary institution) did a great job and prepared the scientific program by the Bezoar Goat. The program for Caucasian chamois was developed together with the Department of state policy and regulation in the field of hunting and Federal state budgetary institution "Federal center for hunting development" of the Ministry of natural resources of the Russian Federation. LLC “DeerLand” has already developed the project of the hatchery in accordance with the highest international standards. This company, as the contractor of the project, provides the entire complex of preparatory and construction works. Federal state budgetary institution "Nalchinsky state experimental hunting farm "(Kabardino-Balkaria) has provided 50 ha where the hatchery will be built and will engage in further work support. The Club signed trilateral agreement with FSBI "Nalchinsky” and LLC “DeerLand”. and is responsible for the financial support. The project will help to create the methods of methods of trapping, keeping and breeding wild mountain ungulates to release them into the wildlife and replenish the population. The budget of the project is about 45 million. We ask you, due to the available opportunities, to support the project and to join it as a sponsor. Details for the transfer of funds are attached to this letter. Respectfully yours, The President of the Club of Mountain Hunters. Edward Bendersky   Payment details We accept funds from the residents of Russian Federation only    Payment from an individual: Name: Fund “The Club of Mountain Hunters” 125212, Moscow, Golovinskoe shosse, 1 OGRN 1157700003010 TIN 7743090102. KPP 774301001. Payment account  40703810200000000096. Bank "The REPUBLICAN CREDIT ALLIANCE" LLC MOSCOW BIC 044525860. Bank's correspondent account 30101810945250000860. Purpose of payment Donation Without VAT                    ** If you pay from a legal entity, please contact the Club administration by email in advance kgo.alexander@gmail.com to get more details.Nursery construction scheme

We all congratulate Evgeny Shirokov on his victory with the nominee "The Mountain Hunter of the Year 2020!" He got and registered the maximum number of trophies among all Club members - 18! We wish him new victories!

On September 15th three sides signed the agreement on the construction of a hatchery for breeding chamois and bezoar goats. They are the Fund of Development of the mountain hunting established by the Club of Mountain Hunters, Federal state budgetary institution "Nalchinsky state experimental hunting farm "(Kabardino-Balkaria) and Limited liability company "DeerLand". The aim of the project is to breed and to release animals into the wild what helps to improve the number of populations of these species. LLC “DeerLand” has already developed the project of the hatchery in accordance with the highest international standards. This company, as the contractor of the project, provides the entire complex of preparatory and construction works. The FSBI "Nalchinsky state experimental hunting farm» provides from its side the territory where the hatchery will be built and will engage in further work support. The CMH is responsible for the financial side of the project. It’s the first one but we hope that it’ll help to develop the methods for semi-free keeping of mountain species of rare and hunting animals. The Caucasian chamois is listed to the Red Book of rare species in some of the regions on the North Caucasus. The population of these animals is at stake now. The Bezoar Goat is a rare species and it’s listed to the Federal Red Book. The CMH has initiated the scientific programs, aimed to reproduce the number of the population of chamois and goats on the North Caucasus. All-Russian Research Institute of Environmental Protection “Ecology” (Federal state budgetary institution) did a great job and prepared the scientific program by the Bezoar Goat. The program for Caucasian chamois was developed together with the Department of state policy and regulation in the field of hunting and Federal state budgetary institution "Federal center for hunting development" of the Ministry of natural resources of the Russian Federation. Completion of the complex is planned on the March 1, 2021. The first turn which includes the cages and the infrastructure, needed for the first animals, will be ready to end of 2020.

The Club of Mountain Hunters has established the special award due to populate the ideas of the right trophy hunts in Russia «Russian super slam» for the great achievements in getting hunting trophies inhabitating in Russia. The list of animals, for getting the award, includes not only mountain ungulates but all typical hunting objects, habitat in Russia. The Club wants to support the development of the hunting industry in our country and to attract the attention of Russian and foreign hunters to hunting in Russia. It’s not an easy matter to get 35 hunting species and sub-species and it's a great contribution to the economy of Russian regions. We congratulate Alexander Egorov - our first nominee who has climbed to this top ( 35 trophies). He did 35 hunting trips or even more to different parts of Russia. We wish him new victories and achievements!

Breaking news! We congratulate Alexander Egorov with getting the most prestige hunting award - “Weatherby”. People all around the world, who are keen of hunting and shooting sport, remember Roy Weatherby for his innovation in the weapons industry. Lots of people remember him for his active support of the wildlife protection projects and ethics of sport hunting. Today, the Weatherby Foundation International continues, on behalf of all hunters, the noble endeavors of Roy Weatherby. Roy Weatherby left an indelible mark on the weapons industry. His story began in 1942, when he took part in the deer hunting at the first time and wounded the animal. It made him to think about the more effective way of hunting. From that time he started to change the ballistic characteristics of the weapon and defended the usage of light bullets at ultra-high speeds with maximum energy. It became the base of Weatherby Magnum. Roy Weatherby died in 1988, 45 years after he started his way of looking for the more effective way of hunting. Over the past four decades, he has changed forever our perception of the firearms. The mission of the Weatherby Foundation International is to inform the youth and public at large about the charity role of ethics hunting sports, about its’ contribution to the protection of the wildlife and to protect our constitutional rights to do it. The Foundation goes on to cooperate with different international organization which develop and support the practical educational events. This is one of the few noncommercial foundation which has focused its activity and financial support on educational projects in other spheres. The Foundation is the only sponsor of the prestige Weatherby Hunting and Conservation Award for the achievements in the hunting and wildlife support projects. The award is given, annularly from 1956, to one individual for outstanding support for wildlife conservation, lifetime hunting achievements, and commitment It happens on the annual Gala - dinner. The charity auction is held at this event. The outfitters and equipment producers donate their goods and services to collect funds for grants. It’s not an easy matter to became the nominee of this award. The selection criteria are high.   The nominee has to send to the Committee all information concerning his hunting achievements. This part of the estimation takes about 65% from the total points and connects with the hunter’s achievements. The next factors are:  The number and diversity of the taken wild trophies; their quality, geographic locations (the trophies have to be taken from all continents) and the complexity of hunting. The next 20% of the total score is the information about his contribution of the wildlife protection and promotion of the positive role of hunting in the conservation of the wildlife. Each hunter, considered for the Weatherby award, has already contributed a lot in the international and local wildlife protection communities when has bought licenses, paid taxes and so. But the Committee recognizes only direct contributions to specific conservation programs.  The nominee donates to the specific environmental projects such as protection or the habitat restoration, distribution and/or repeated relocation of species under threat of extinction. The organizing Committee admits the importance of the nominee's activity in the promotion and the youth engagement into the programs, which promote the positive role of hunting. The last 15% from the total score gives the hunter’s individual features his ability to be a behave in the ethic way and his lifelong commitment to hunting. It’s important how he follows the local and international laws and agreements concerning hunting, his reputation and his commitment to the principals of the ethic hunting and the struggle against poaching.  This year it was the 63th Weatherby Award. There were five nominee in this year: Alexander Egorov, Bela Hidvegi, Jay link, Eduardo Negrete and Dr. Doug Yayko According to the decision of the organizing Committee Alexander was recognized as the winner in 2020. He is the first winner from Russia. We congratulate Alexander Egorov with this Award and wish him new hunts and trophies!

The faculty of Game-biology of Irkutsk agricultural University celebrates the 70th anniversary of their professional activity.  The Club of Mountains Hunters presented the faculty the off-road car UAZ -3909 to for conduct scientific, educational and hunting activities.

On May 28th, 2020 the Academic Board of the Novosibirsk SAU conferred the title of “Honorary doctor of the University” to L.L. Palko. He was awarded for educational activities, the support of the material and technical base of the University and active participation in the Patriotic and moral education of the youth. Leonid Palko graduated the faculty of animal engineering of the NSAU in 1982. He is the Chief Editor of the publishing house "Veche”, the Board Member of the Russian Book Union, the member of the Publishing Council of Moscow, member of the Union of journalists of Moscow, full member and Professor of the Academy of Russian literature and fine arts, He is also the corresponding member of the Academy of Russian literature, corresponding member of the Petrovskaya Academy of Sciences and arts, member of the Board of Trustees of the Novosibirsk SAU and the honored worker of culture of the Russian Federation. Leonid Palko was awarded by "Order of Honor", "Order of Friendship", medals" For Strengthening of Brotherhood in Arms” and "Participant in the military operation in Syria". In 2017 he supported the opening of the Game- biological laboratory and later in 2018 took active part int the opening of the Literary room in the reading hall of the library. The staff of the University congratulate L. Palko with the title of “Honorary doctor of the University”. We wish him great health and new achievements! Click the link if you want read more about the opening of lab and Leonid's meetings with the students .    https://novosibirsk.bezformata.com/listnews/torzhestvennoe-otkritie-imennoj-auditorii/54908144/    https://nsau.edu.ru/news/72211.html

The Club of Mountain Hunters congratulate the Irkutsk school of Game biologists Of the state agrarian University named after A. A. Ezhevsky (Irkutsk state agrarian UNIVERSITY). The story of the game biologists’ courses started in 1927. The Siberian land administration at Irkutsk University initiated the establishment of courses for the specialists in hunting. Dorogostaiskii V.G. made the great contribution to the development of that idea. He worked together with the ethnographer Petri B. E. and the forest zoologist Gagarin N.A. They gave lectures and conducted practical classes with students. The first course consisted of 20 students. It included such well-known biologists as Zharov V.K, Vladimirov K.A. and Khudyakov P.I. In 1930 the courses got the status of the Fur and Raw materials Institute of hunting cooperation which entered to the Moscow Fur and Raw materials Institute in 1934. The management of the Institute realized the low effectiveness of the study, organized far from the hunting area. Later in 1950 it was transfered to Irkutsk and became the part of the zoological faculty in the State Agrarian University. The famous scientist Skalon V. N. became the mastermind of that idea. It took him two years to find and attract experienced scientists to join the teachers’ team. They were Zarov V.K., Khudyakov P.I., Timofeiv V.V., Litvinov N.I., Krasnyi N.M., Gagarina T. N., Klyatis B.D., Sviridov N.S. Starting from 1954, 100 students entered the Game Biology faculty each year.   Till 1967 the graduates got the diplomas of Game Biologist. Thanks to Sviridov N.S and Bentchen P.I. The faculty of Game Biology was established in the 1st of January, 1968 and all graduates started to train the Game Biology program. The new departments of animals and birds biology, hunting farm management and zoology were opened. That was a boost for Game Biology Museum development. It was directed by such specialists as Sadkov V.S., Ogorodnikov L. I., Melnikova N. I, Zargebin A.A, Kudashev A.V. The educational and experimental farm, formed in 1961, became the practical base for the next students generations. Nowadays the farm “Goloustnoe” has an area of 120 thousand hectares. The Council for defense of dissertations started to work at 70s and more than 30 candidates defended their dissertations there. The scientific game biology school worked very actively. At 90s there were more than 60 theses were defended there. Annually the faculty organizes the international conferences concerning the prospects of hunting industry. The faculty accepts for practice and to collect of the scientific data students and professors from other countries such as Germany, Poland, France and several Russian Universities. More than 7000 game biologists graduated the faculty from the time is was established more than 70 years ago. Most of them develop the hunting industry of Siberia, the Far East of Russia and other counties of CIS. They play the important role in protection of wild nature diversity of our countries. The Club has very close contacts with the Game Biology faculty and its graduates. We hope to continue our cooperation in future. We wish new scientific and creative achievements to the faculty staff and its graduates! The president of the Club of Mountain Hunters. Edward Bendersky.

Congratulations to Yuri Vasilev on reaching the Capra World Slam Super 20 level for mining 20 goats from the Grand Slam Club Ovis list!

Dear Club Members! We are glad to inform you about that the editorial of “The Magic of the Real Safari” magazine has added the new section archive to the web site. You can find the on line version of our April issue there.go to the magazine's website 

Дополнительно обращаем ваше внимание на возможность оказания финансовой помощи семье Ивана Александровича Юфкина, трагически погибшего в январе этого года на охоте. Сообщаем номер банковской карты вдовы Ивана для перевода средств через мобильный банк:4276 8600 1758 7508  (Аллевтина)

We are pleased to recognize Alexey Kim (Russia) for achieving his Capra World Slam Super 20. Alexey has been very busy hunting the world’s wild goats lately. In 2018 and 2019 alone he took a total of 14 of his 23 Capra species. Alexey traveled to Nepal in 2018 and was successful in collecting a Himalayan tahr. His impressive Cantabrian chamois was taken on a hunt in Spain and he connected on a Persian desert ibex in Iran, also in 2018. Alexey reached the Capra Super 20 on a hunt in Greece when he got a Kri-Kri (hybrid) ibex. GRAND SLAM CLUB / OVIS