The paper describes the experience of organizing conferences under the constraints due to COVID-19 pandemic. The world experience in organizing virtual conferences both before and during the pandemic period is analyzed. The formats of scientific events are classified and the features of each format are specified. The proposed article provides an analysis of the conferences held in 2020-2021, with an emphasis on the events which were organized and conducted with direct involvement of the authors. The experience covers the work on organizing events using all basic formats. Recommendations are given for organizing conferences in the conditions of restrictions, and the positive features of the acquired experience are analyzed, which can significantly expand the possibilities and effectiveness of scientific events, both in the context of a pandemic and after its end. Using the conferences described in the paper as an example, it is shown that any combination of the following formats is possible: a virtual conference, where each person connects to the event individually; a conference in a mixed format, which combines both individual remoteparticipants and groups of listeners and speakers gathered in a certain room for direct communication;a conference in face-to-face format, which can also be held using telecommunication networks, when groups of participants located in different rooms are connected to a common space of the conference. It is noted that the mixed format surely has the broadest prospects for further development, regardless of the epidemiological situation.

The paper describes the editors’ experience of development and promotion of a scientific and technical journal Gyroscopy and Navigation intended for scientists and specialists in the art, and published in the Russian and English versions. The effectiveness of various tools for increasing the citation of the journal is analyzed, and the examples of their practical use are given. The features of interaction with the authors and readership of both the Russian and English-language versions of the journal, i.e., specialists  in navigation and motion control of various moving objects are shown. Work with the Russian-speaking audience of the journal is based on direct contacts with researchers through online seminars, which facilitates the formation of a community of scientists loyal to the publication and interested in the journal development. At present, one of the main goals of the journal is to increase the level of its global reputation and influence. This is solved by sending regular information letters about the publication of new issues   of the journal with a brief description of published materials to particular addressees. As a result of the measures taken, the number of downloads of full texts of articles in the English version of the journal, as well as their citation, has increased significantly (2.5 times), which, in turn, has considerably increased the rating of the journal in the Scopus database. For example, the CiteScore index increased from 1.7 to 2.6 between 2019 and 2021. In this paper, it is shown that the difficulties in promoting the Russian-language version of the journal are due to the small audience of Russian-speaking specialists in this subject area, and due to the specific procedure of journal ratings calculation in the Russian Science Citation Index.