Russian 'Eco-Drawing' Competition Highlights Children’s Environmental Concerns
Russia’s state environmental watchdog Rosprirodnadzor opened an exhibition of children's drawings on nature protection in Moscow this week, a part of its larger international youth environmental award "Ecology is Everyone's Business."
The governmental body received over 13,000 submissions from every region of Russia as well as several foreign countries to its “Eco-Drawing” contest, which has become an annual event.
Here’s a look at the winning entries and those of residents from environmentally troubled regions of Russia.
The governmental body received over 13,000 submissions from every region of Russia as well as several foreign countries to its “Eco-Drawing” contest, which has become an annual event.
Here’s a look at the winning entries and those of residents from environmentally troubled regions of Russia.
"Save the Forests and Living Beings from Fires" by Anastasia Yakovleva from Kursk tied for first place with two other contestants.
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"Take Care of the Nature of Your Homeland," which depicts wild animals living in a forest, by 9-year-old Kirill Gudz from Saratov was another co-winner of the first-place prize.
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"Man Ruined, He Must Fix Everything" by Daria Gazizova from Kyrgyzstan was also ranked first.
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"Stop Killing Turtles," an apparent reference to the problem of ocean plastic pollution, by Angelina Starkova from Spas-Klepiki in the Ryazan region tied for second place.
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“Global Warming” by Norayr Movsesyan from Yerevan, Armenia, also got the second place.
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"The Best Park" by Sophia Balabanova from Almaty, Kazakhstan, also ranked second.
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Elizaveta Borisova from Sochi was awarded third place for the work "Eco-Fairy."
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Yekaterina Starovatova from Krasnoyarsk submitted this painting titled "Smokestacks." In 2022, Russian authorities said that Krasnoyarsk, an economic hub in eastern Siberia, has the most polluted air in the country.
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This drawing, which reads "Water is more valuable than oil!” was submitted by Maria Bestayeva from Surgut in the Khanty-Mansiysk autonomous district, an oil region in western Siberia where thousands of oil spills are recorded annually.
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Sophia Kazakova's work "The Daily Routine of Environmental Struggle," sent from Surgut in the Khanty-Mansiisk autonomous district, depicts multiple environmental issues present in Russia such as wildfires, oil spills, communal waste and urban air pollution.
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"Environmental Pollution" by Milana Makarenko from the city of Gryazi in the Lipetsk region features a sign with the first four letters of the word “Chernobyl,” referencing the 1986 Soviet nuclear disaster which is still remembered by many Russians.
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"Norilsk Berries" by Dzhanin Bajnazarova, a resident of Norilsk, an industrial center in eastern Siberia which was named by Rosprirodnadzor as the dirtiest Russian city in 2022.
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"Choosing Nature is Choosing Yourself" by Elina Medentseva from Kemerovo in Kuzbass, a major coal-mining region notorious for environmental problems such as air pollution.
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The work “Baikal Seal Under Threat” was submitted by Valeriya Zlatina from the settlement of Nia in the Irkutsk region bordering Lake Baikal. In April, the Russian government considered the possibility of forcibly reducing the booming population of the Baikal seal, which hinders industrial fishing in the lake.
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Iosif Moldovantsev, from the village of Bulgakovo in the republic of Bashkortostan, submitted the work "Enough!"
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The work titled "Let Us Be Worthy of the Greatness of Our Nature" by Aleksandra Aspidova from Pyatigorsk in the Stavropol region.
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“You and Me Are Meant to Live On This Planet” by Nadezhda Sarsyngaliyeva from Ruzayevka in the republic of Mordovia.
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Svetlana Radionova, the head of Rosprirodnadzor, at the exhibition opening.
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