Valentina Agafonova

Director of the State Budgetary Institution of Culture of Moscow "M.A. Svetlov Central City Library for Youth" since 2017. In 2007 she graduated from the Pushkin State Russian Language Institute with a degree in Philology. In 2018–2019 she held the position of Director of the State Budgetary Institution of Culture of Moscow 'Library-Reading Room named after A.S. Pushkin' on a part-time basis. Previously she had occupied leading positions in FSBE Rospatriottsentr (Russian Centre for the Civic and Patriotic Education of Children and Youth), SPEC 'Moscow Direction for Development of Cultural Centres' and SAIC of Moscow 'MOSGORTUR' (Moscow Agency for Recreation and Tourism). She is a co-producer and co-organizer of festivals and public projects (public movement "V DELE", Hipster Cup Moskva 2013, pro-MOTHERLAND, etc.)