A new photography competition of the Presidential Library will expose a beauty of Siberia

Today, on the 19th of December, 2016, the Presidential Library in video conference mode has participated in featuring of the all-Russia national photo contest entitled “Siberia: How Rare Fine it is Today” and dedicated to the upcoming Year of Ecology in Russia. The event was held within the framework of information and educational center of the Presidential Library in Tyumen Oblast. The founders of the contest are the Tyumen Oblast Today newspaper and Region-Tyumen Broadcasting Company with the support of regional departments for public relations, communications and youth policy, for subsoil use and ecology, as well as for the consumer market and tourism. The Presidential Library stepped forward as a co-founder of the competition.

A representative of the legislative body of the government of the Tyumen Oblast, the deputy chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Economic Policy Mikhail Ponomarev addressed a welcoming speech to the participants of the presentation on the back-up center of the Presidential Library in Moscow. He highlighted that the photo contest dedicated to the Siberian Region will become a significant project of upcoming Year of Ecology.

According to the chairman of department of the Union of Journalists of Russia in the Tyumen Oblast Vladimir Kuznetsov, a nature of Siberia is one of the amazing phenomena in the world, and Tyumen local residents are making great efforts to save it. He convinced an audience that the photography competition would cause a huge interest among the residents of the Tyumen Oblast, who love and appreciate sometimes taught, but so beautiful nature of their region.

The first deputy chairman of the Tyumen Regional Duma Andrew Artyukhov appealed to the organizers of the photography competition with a proposal to add a category related to the public volunteer so called Saturday’s cleanups. The idea was met with well support of the audience. Andrew Artyukhov also invited all Siberian territories, apart from the Tyumen Oblast, to participate in the project.

As the Advisor of the Governor the Tyumen Oblast Alexander Novopashin mentioned, for the first time this photo contest was organized five years ago, two journalists' groups - the Tyumen Oblast Today newspaper and Region-Tyumen Broadcasting Company. Since then, similar projects are being annually implemented on the territory of the Tyumen Oblast. However, at the all-Russian level photography competition happened owing to the help and participation of the Presidential Library.

Besides the professional photographers, the amateurs, as well as all Siberia residents or associated with the region people, who are ready to give old photographs from their family albums and archives are invited to participate in the “Siberia: How Rare Fine it is Today!” photography competition. The chief editor of “Tyumen Oblast Today” Alexander Skorbenko announced that. According to him, this year the categories are divided into two sections: “The Siberian Men” and The Siberian Women.” Everyone will be able to send no more than 10 photographs taken in the Siberian Region. The organizers offer the following nominations: “A look from the top” (areal views of nature of the region), “Heart rending and dear” (the theme of home places - forest and rivers, towns and villages), “Silver Siberia” (Winter scenery) “Cozy Taiga” (arts and crafts of Siberia), “The sun of Siberia” (summer landscapes), “A silver of the Moon” (night landscapes), “Your Majesty” (the portraits of well-known women), “Of Heaven and of the Earth” (the portraits of the sublime and spiritualized girls), “Be envious!” (the portraits of successful and accomplished their careers women), “Woman is a style” (images of fashionable women), “Don’t be sad” (portraits of smiling women), “My redheaded sunshine” (the portraits of happy women and women in love), “Quiet happiness” (the portraits of women with their families), and much more. Please submit the competition entries over the e-mail: msiberia-beauty@mail.ru. One of the requirement for participation is to specify the following additional information: a caption, author's full name, place of taking a picture specifying the name of constituent entity of the Russian Federation, a district name, town’s name or a name of geographic feature, the actual author’s contact information, a breath history of taken picture (no more than 200 characters). The competition entries are accepted up to the 1st of June 2017.

“Siberia: How Rare Fine it is Today” photo contest sums up a cooperation, which began within the framework of the Outreach and Awareness Raising Centre of the Presidential Library in 2016. A lot of important projects have been implemented almost during a year, ranging from the artistic to the resource ones. For example, the center of access to the resources of the Presidential Library was opened on the basis of the Tobolsk State National Park and Museum. At the moment, more than 20 thousand storage units, including the photographs of the royal family, taken during their stay in Tobolsk, are getting ready for digitizing. At the same time a work with such municipalities of the region as Zavodoukovsk, Ishim, Yalutorovsk and many others is currently going on.

This photo contest will become a significant event of the Presidential Library in the Year of Ecology. Part of the work will be presented at the exhibition of the Presidential Library, devoted to the ecology of Russia, environmental protection and a development of tourism in our country. The exposition will be opened in May next year. All contest entries will add to the Presidential Library stock.

In addition, the Presidential Library will develop cooperation with the Outreach and Awareness Center of the Tyumen Oblast in the field of interaction with other territories. On November 18, 2016, the second center was launched in the Karachay-Cherkess Republic. Next year it is planned to implement the same kind of project in the Crimea, in the territory of Simferopol. Then, similar centers will be opened in each federal district of Russia.