In Omsk, Olga Gavrilchenko, Acting Deputy Head of the Siberian Interregional Department of Rosprirodnadzor, awarded children and schools who participated in the second season of the International Children's and Youth Award "Ecology is everyone's business".

Ilya Lobov, the Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology of the Omsk Region, Andrey Marilov, a leading specialist of the Public Security Department of the Omsk Administration, and Irina Kulachek, Deputy director of the Education Department, also came to congratulate the Omsk children on their victory. It is worth noting the high quality of the works that the guys presented to the jury. The application "ZNOPOO" by Maria Ushakova (16 years old) was noted among the main winners of the Award "Ecology is everyone's business" in the nomination "Ecoproject". The name of the project stands for "Protection of the population from flooding of the Omsk region". This work was singled out by the jury of the competition and all those gathered as necessary and extremely relevant for the Omsk region, since more than a thousand residential buildings in the region were affected by floods only in 2021. In this regard, Maria proposed the creation of an Internet resource with a map of the region and a weather forecast, as well as a memo on how to behave in an emergency.

Also among the winners of the competition was MBU DO "Azov tourist Station" Ecoclub "Greenfinch" for its project "Package -no thanks". Varvara Akhtyrskaya (10 years old) together with their classmates and the head of the circle, Evgenia Harevskaya, they developed a design of shoppers from old jeans, which they successfully implemented in practice. This action motivates the involvement of things that have lost their consumer properties in secondary processing, thereby reducing the burden on the environment, reducing consumption waste. The jury of the competition highly appreciated the work.

Christopher Manashyan (12 years old) he also became a prize-winner of the competition for the video "The choice is ours", in which he proposed to replace the sponges for washing dishes with jute washcloths, which are more environmentally friendly. It should be noted that Christopher participated in many nominations of this award, sending a cartoon, a poem, a poster and a video under magnification about the circulation of substances in the food chain of insects, and he also studies at the Omsk Music School named after V.Ya. Shebalin in the class "Drum kits"! His next goal is to get to the "Artek International Children's Center" to celebrate the 100th anniversary of its foundation.

In addition, the jury of the award decided to thank the boarding school No. 20 of Omsk, JSC "Russian Railways" for actively supporting the participation of children in the award "Ecology is everyone's business". The presentation of gratitude was held under the warm words of the audience about the involvement of the younger generation through creativity in the need for existence in an eco-friendly society.