On January 30, 2020 Viktor Pál the Scientific Coordinator of the Helsinki University Humanities Programme Environmental Humanities Hub visited S.I.Vavilov Institute for the History of Science and Technology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IHST RAS), one of the oldest and most prestigious research institutes on the fields of environmental humanities in the Russian Federation to initiate collaboration between the two research collectives. Pál introduced briefly environmental humanities activities for Russian colleagues. Anastasia Fedotova, representative of the IHST RAS will visit Helsinki in early February to give a talk and short introduction of the IHST RAS.