The head of the Federal Service for Nature Management Svetlana Radionova on Monday presented awards to the winners of the international children's and youth award "Ecology is everyone's business" from Krasnodar Krai, Sevastopol, the republics of Adygea and Crimea.

In total, 17 children won in these territories. The first place in the Krasnodar Territory was won by: Ilya Bessonov (Sochi) 15 years old nomination "Ecofocus", Vfo Vera (Primorsky village) 11 years - nomination "Ecobloger"; the team from the village of Sovkhozny boarding school "Slavyansky SRCN" - nomination "Ecotrends: "Ecofleshmob": Nikita Kolesnik 16 years, Maria Fischukova 13 years, Sergey Nekrasov 12 years, Polina Komornaya 11 years. The winner of the first place in the nomination "Ecomultfilm" was Vadim Shmygelsky, 9 years old from the village of Novy of the Republic of Adygea. The second place in the nomination "Ecotrends: "Ecofleshmob" was taken by the teams from Sochi - Evelina Pyatina, 13 years old, Miroslav Popov Igorevich, 12 years old, Miroslava Nikonchuk, 13 years old, Maria Yusipova, 9 years old. The third place in the nomination "Eco-school" was awarded to the state autonomous educational institution of the Krasnodar Territory "Novoleushkov boarding school with vocational training" - 3rd place. Special prizes of the jury were received: Nedashkovskaya Maria 10 years old nomination "Ecorisunok" (Sochi), Ponomareva Sofia 14 years nomination "Ecomultfilm" (Sochi), Sapunov Kirill 11 years nomination "Ecovolonter (Crimea, Kerch), Grekova Ekaterina 12 years - nomination "Young eco-journalist", (Crimea, Evpatoria), Stolyarov Mikhail 12 years - nomination "Ecovolonter" (Sevastopol)

"Your region has become the leader in the number of accepted applications for the competition. Well done, keep it up! The works were different - both team nominations and individual ones. Katya Grekova from the Crimea, for example, made an interesting story about the harm of balloons. Masha Nedashkovskaya had a very professional and interesting drawing, her super-heroes famous cartoon characters learned to sort garbage. A team of children from the boarding school made a very interesting flash mob, where the main character was the planet Earth and she asked her to take care of it. Thank you children for such heartfelt and interesting work!", - said the head of Rosprirodnadzor Svetlana Radionova at the presentation.

The award ceremony was held in the hall of the Legislative Assembly of the Krasnodar Territory. The chairman of the regional parliament, Yuriy Burlachko, also gave a welcoming speech to the children. Tea drinking and informal communication with children, parents and teachers were organized for the winners and prize-winners.

Recall that Rosprirodnadzor this spring established the international children's and youth award "Ecology is everyone's business" to involve children and adolescents from 7 to 16 years old in the environmental agenda and encourage them, as well as volunteer, public, environmental organizations, institutions of additional and general education, boarding schools and orphanages for their contribution to environmental conservation. Applications for participation in the award were accepted from April 1 to October 1 on the project website: https://экологияделокаждого.рф

In total, 9,5 thousand applications were received for the competition, about 6000 works were accepted. The Krasnodar Territory is in the lead in terms of the number of applications, followed by Moscow and the Moscow region. Also in the top five are the Rostov region and Tatarstan. The shortlist of the award includes about 650 creative applications, all of them are published in the shortlist on RUTUBE. All 86 regions of Russia and 27 countries of the world took part in the award.

The general partner of the award was: ANO "Center "Arctic Initiatives". Federal partners were: PJSC "SIBUR Holding", VCD "Orlyonok", LLC "Charter", Grand hotel "Pearl", "Children's Radio", news agency "TASS", MIA "Russia today", radio station "Echo of Moscow", TV channel 360, Rossiyskaya Gazeta, film studio "Soyuzmultfilm", RUTUBE and many others.