Speech delivered by Skornyakov Alexander Victorovich during the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, June 17, 2012 Acting member of RANS and IAEBP, Chairman of the Council of the Consumers Society for Development of Social Systems -, Member of the Scientific School of Sustainable Development . DearColleagues, We prepared this Report to bedelivered on the pulpit of the World Forum Rio + 20 in order to attract theworld public attention to the prominent date: on the 12th of Marchin 2013 we shall celebrate 150 years anniversary of the birth date of VladimirIvanovich Vernadsky, the outstanding Russian scholar, natural scientist,thinker and public figure. Name of V.I.Vernadsky is closely tiedwith the whole epoque in development of natural science, in establishment anddevelopment of a number of spheres of science that defined its progress notonly in the XX century, but in the running 21st century aswell. He stood at the outlets of suchbranches of Earth studies as genetic mineralogy, crystallography, geologicalchemistry, biological geo-chemistry, radiology, cosmo-chemistry; he also was aco-founder of study of natural waters, chrono-radiology, chrono-bio-geo-chemistry,chrono-bio-geology; he also made noticeable input into studies of sociology ofscience and into a number of other fields of scientific studies. In recognition of the Vernadskysinput into development of the world civilization UNESCO included his jubileeinto a list of memorable dates of the world history in the year 2013. The President Vladimir Putin supported therelevant address of the Russian public and recommended to mark the Vernadskysjubilee at the governmental level. The festivities on this occasion are now inthe process of preparation in Russia. Here at the pulpit of RIO + 20 werepresent Russian followers of the Vernadskys ideas and we are participants infurther development of his scientific school of studies of Biosphere and Noosphere. You certainlyknow that Vernadskys achievements in studies of biosphere are the mostimportant basis of development of the contemporary views on ecologicalproblems. And his studies of Noosphere without exaggeration laid a foundationof the great Project on development ofmankind on the Planet Earth. To-day this teaching is being advanced at theforefront of development of Science of the Mankind. V.I.Vernadsky defined Noosphere as a new state of the biosphere,where the scientific thought as a planetary phenomenon together with collectiveconscience are becoming factors defining geological and biosphere evolution. His teaching on Noosphere has laid a theoretical foundation, upon whichNoosphere scientific school in Russia has been built and is currently furtherdeveloping. We believe that scientific achievements of this School willadequately represent our country within international society. We would like to provide here someglimpses of establishment and development of the Vernadskys teaching. The firstcycle of establishment of the Noosphere science in Russia we would defineas a Vernadskyanskys cycle. It was a period of scientific exploits ofVernadsky himself in the years of 1915 1945: development of the definitionof Noosphere, creation of the theory of the living substance, of the autotrophyof the mankind etc. This period is also related with apprehension of thestream of ideas of the so called Russian cosmism (K.E.Tsiolkovsky andothers), with enrichment of the concepts introduced by Vernadsky, such asintellectosphere, anthroposphere, with apprehension of the role of the humanmind as a