On December 9, on behalf of the head of Rosprirodnadzor Svetlana Radionova, the head of the Amur Interregional Department of Rosprirodnadzor Vyacheslav Goryachev awarded the participant of the International Children's and Youth Award "Ecology is everyone's business" Mikhail Kudukis, who is a pupil of an orphanage from the village of Khurba of the Khabarovsk Territory.

You can get acquainted with Mikhail's work by following the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA5GsSyp0RA . In the cartoon "The Wonders of the Khabarovsk Territory", the author tells us about the assets and wonders of the region that need protection. Boris Mashkovets, Director General of Soyuzmultfilm Film Studio, presented a special prize to Mikhail – "Animation Video Course" and the course "Animated Sketching".

Misha has a lot of favorite activities and hobbies: he loves board games and a constructor, sings well, dances breakdance, does acrobatic sketches. The boy attends a cartoon studio, creates cartoons in a team with other guys.

Anna Kalinina, Mikhail's mentor in the competition, told: "A lot of attention is paid to environmental education in our orphanage, we hold subbotniks, actions, events aimed at nature conservation. We have a Landscape Design studio where we create masterpieces from solid household waste.

The head of the Department of Rosprirodnadzor Vyacheslav Goryachev congratulated Mikhail Kudukis and thanked for the professionalism and pedagogical skills of the teacher Anna Kalinina and the director of the Orphanage No. 21 S. Khurba Irina Kostyrchenko.