The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has initiated the IARC Regional Hub for Cancer Registration in Izmir, Turkey to provide technical guidance to existing cancer registries in Northern Africa, Central and Western Asia, as well as to help implement and develop new Population Based Cancer Registries in the region. The proposed workshop aims to build participants’ professional capacity to establish and sustainably maintain high-quality cancer registries providing, in due course, internationally comparable data. By bringing together Russian-speaking cancer registry professionals from 15 countries, the workshop will also serve as a platform for networking within the region and with the Hub in Izmir, providing the opportunity for the participants to discuss barriers and solutions in collection of data, and exchange opinions on ways to improve cancer registration in their countries and the region.