I Live at the Mezen Bank
That was the name of the photo contest organized by the Leshukonye Central Library staff under the environmental and educational project Mezen – River of the North, River of Life with the support of the Silver Taiga Foundation (Model River Mezen project).
Residents of the Mezen districts of Arkhangelsk region and the Komi Republic were invited to participate. The photos were accepted for two nominations: Beauty of the Native Village and Beauty of the Dear River. The pictures submitted for the contest were displayed at the Leshukonye Central Library and the readers were offered to judge them and to vote for the best works.
Photo show
“Residents of Leshukonye and Udora districts took part in the district”, Svetlana Ivanova says. “Mezen district residents haven’t sent a single photo unfortunately. 34 pictures were registered for the two nominations. 129 readers took part in the independent assessment. The readers’ choice for the Beauty of the Native Village nomination was the photo Beauty of Malaya Pyssa by Alyona Tsyngina. This photo got maximum votes – 57 in total.
«The beauty of Malaya Pyssa village» (author A. Tsyngina)
The second place was given to the Rodoma Village photo by Albert Loginov from Udora district (Malaya Pyssa).
«Rodoma village» (author A. Loginov)
The work called We Don’t Need Foreign Resorts by Natalia Fedotova from Yuroma, Leshukonye district, became the third.
N. Phedotova from Yuroma (the 3rd place)
«We don’t need foreign resorts» (author N. Phedotova)
The winner of the Beauty of the Dear River nomination was the work by Albert Loginov – The Kama River – the Mezen Tributary.
«The Kama River – the Mezen Tributary» (author A. Loginov)
The second place was given to Valentina Semenova with her Autumn Landscape (Tsenogora, Leshukonye district).
«Autumn landscape» (author V. Semenova)
And the third place was taken by Elena Novikova from Leshukonskoye with her photo Mirror.
«Mirrorlike surface» (author E. Novikova)
And only four works (three from Leshukonye district and one from Udora district) took part in the art contest 7 Wonders of the Mezen River. The first prize was unanimously given to Alyona Tsyngina from Koslan and her Udora Necklace presentation.
All participants of the contests were awarded with certificates and thank-you letters, presents and souvenirs at the gala evening devoted to the Mezen river, were competing works were displayed, extracts from literary works were recited, and local poets from the Vashka literary association declaimed their poems.
The facilitators are grateful to participants of both contests and hope for active participation of readers in new initiatives of the library. Special gratitude of the Leshukonye Central Library is to the Central Library named after A. Vaneyev in Koslan, Komi Republic, for support in contest organization.
The presents are going to be sent to Komi
You can see other participating photos at https://vk.com/album-37769424_246537242
