The first Forum-Festival ‘The Arctic. The Ice Has Broken’ will take place in the Komi Republic city of Usinsk on 16–18 August as part of the main events of Russia’s chairmanship of the Arctic Council in 2021–2023, which are being organized by the Roscongress Foundation with the support of the Clean Arctic autonomous non-government organization. The forum-festival will bring together volunteers, representatives of environmental organizations and movements, social activists, and students from all 85 regions of Russia and Luhansk People’s Republic, Donetsk People’s Republic, Zaporozhye region, as well as anyone else who would like to participate in the forum’s discussions. More than 3,000 people from all over Russia are expected to join the business part of the programme online.