As a part of the Russian-German project supported by the German Federal Environment Agency and the Economic Development Ministry of the Russian Federation the seminar "Environmentally oriented approaches to the use of the space of the Russian part of the Baltic Sea" will be organized in St. Petersburg from 12 to 14 August 2015. The issues to be discussed include the legal, organizational and planned framework conditions of the pilot project on Marine Spatial Planning, as well as methodical aspects of marine planning in the pilot region (the Leningrad region and St. Petersburg).