The International Children's and Youth Award "Ecology is everyone's business" was established by Rosprirodnadzor in March 2021 to popularize the topic of ecology and environmental conservation. 

The Volgograd region took the 10th place among the regions of the Russian Federation in terms of the number of works sent to participate in the second season of the International Children's and Youth Award "Ecology is everyone's business" of Rosprirodnadzor. This year, children and teenagers presented more than 1,200 works to the jury, which is 20 times higher than in 2021.

According to the head of Rosprirodnadzor Svetlana Radionova, the Krasnodar Territory holds the palm of the championship in terms of the number of works received for the second year in a row, and if 520 applications were received in the first season, this year their number has more than quadrupled and reached 2,293. The guys from the Rostov region sent 2241 works, from Chelyabinsk – 2172, Novosibirsk – 2168, and from Moscow – 2137. 

Tatarstan (1852 applications), Moscow region (1569), Nizhny Novgorod (1351), Leningrad (1322) and Volgograd (1239) regions also entered the top ten. Chelyabinsk, Nizhny Novgorod, Leningrad and Volgograd regions became new regions in the top 10 in terms of the number of applications this year.

For the first time, students from Venezuela, Greece, Indonesia, Germany, Austria, Lebanon, Mongolia, Qatar, Cameroon, Algeria and Bolivia sent their works to participate in the Ecology is Everyone's Business award. "Children from the African continent are taking part in our award for the first time this year. For example, 16-year–old Kangmo Yeride from the city of Douala sent a video where she said that in her city a lot of sand is collected in the courtyards every half hour, so she regularly cleans her yard so that it is always clean and easy to breathe," Svetlana Radionova said.

She stressed that in total, more than a thousand works from 33 countries of the near and far abroad, representing four continents, including the UK, USA, Estonia, Peru, Ecuador, China, the UAE and others, were received for the award.

Svetlana Radionova added that for the first time children from other countries actively participated in such nominations as "Eco-family", "ESG-generation", "Ecoproject", "Ecomultfilm".

This year, the jury was headed by Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation for Agriculture, Ecology and Real Estate Turnover Victoria Abramchenko, and the judging panel included: Head of Rosprirodnadzor Svetlana Radionova, Russian scientist, TV presenter Nikolai Drozdov, famous Russian traveler Fyodor Konyukhov, People's Artist of the Russian Federation Nikas Safronov, Deputy Director General of ANO "Center"Arctic Initiatives" Rustam Romanenkov, TV journalist Elena Letuchaya, two-time Olympic champion Vyacheslav Fetisov, director of the Soyuzmultfilm studio Boris Mashkovtsev, chairman of the Board of Directors of the Vedomosti newspaper Ivan Eremin, Russian football player Alexey Smertin.

"Thanks to the Ecology is Everyone's Business award, we have seen a new generation that is not ready to stand aside and be observers. These are active, thinking children who are ready to offer ideas and work through them to solve specific environmental problems. Each of the award participants shows that he cares and that he really wants to change the world for the better," said Rustam Romanenkov, Deputy Director General of the Center for Arctic Initiatives.

On December 21, 2022, Ruslan Hasanov, head of the Interregional Department of Rosprirodnadzor for the Astrakhan and Volgograd regions, solemnly presented the awards of the II International Children's and Youth Award "Ecology is everyone's business".

In the nomination "Eco-school" 3rd place was taken by pupils of the Volgograd boarding school "Constellation" Makeeva Faina, Ovsyannikov Roman, Perfiliev Ivan and Bagurina Daria.

A special prize was awarded to Elena Elfimova, a pupil of the State Educational Institution of SO "VORTSDI "Trust", as well as the State Educational Institution "Dubovskaya Boarding School".
In the nomination "rating of schools by the number of applications received", the pupils of the MOU "The Hero S.A. Solnechnikov Cadet School of Volzhsky took 71-80 places, the guys sent more than 53 applications to the competition.

MKOU Secondary School No. 1, MKOU Secondary School No. 5 took 81-90 places. In this direction, the guys submitted more than 42 applications in the competition. 

91-100 places were taken by students of the MOU Lyceum No. 2, MOU Lyceum No. 6, who sent more than 32 applications in this direction.

The jury of the Award honored institutions and children with valuable gifts, laptops, personalized certificates for planting seedlings and more were awarded.