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This publication is a collection of abstracts submitted to the International Geographical Union Thematic Conference “Practical Geography and XXI Century Challenges dedicated to the centennial of the Institute of Geography of Russian Academy of Sciences and held in June 2018. The conference provided an opportunity to make an overview of the domestic and international trends in geography’s development – to analyze the aggravation of global problems, changing theoretical paradigms, radical renewal of research methods and predictions’ validity, as well as to strengthen the integration between social and environmental branches of geography. The scientific programme of the conference comprised the sessions proposed by nine IGU Commissions and by groups of scholars – altogether 105 time slots of 90 minutes each, as well as 11 plenary lectures. The programme included also few symposia – on Geospatial Health, on “Big Eurasia” and the Chinese “One Belt – One Road” Initiative, and on the innovative potential of geographical education (lifelong learning). The largest number of presentations concerned climate change, shrinking glaciation in different parts of the world, optimization of land use and protection of land resources, Arctic, international borders, migrations and territorial governance, etc.