Strobile Drying Factory Requires a Strobile Dryer to Work on the Strobile Drying Machine

– This Russian tongue twister became the title of the research work, which won the 1^st place during the 5^th ecological conference Istoki  held on 16 March, 2019 in Udora district of Komi. The conference was organized by Silver Taiga Foundation in cooperation with Udora Department of Education and PA Center of Komi.

The schoolchildren collected the information about one of the departments of the logging companies – strobile-drying machine that was operating under the cooperation between Bulgaria and the Soviet Union in Udora forestry unit. The strobile drying machine was used to prepare conifer seeds for the artificial forest regeneration. The enterprise was built in 1978 and nowadays only ruins are left. At present, there is a strobile processing plant in Udora organized by the local entrepreneur.

The 2^nd place was given to the research work How to Save the Village from Rubbish. The author of the work proposed several ways out of the given problem. The 3^rd place won the research of ancient cabbage storage method for the winter. Not long ago Komi people cooked cabbage on the open fire, put the cabbage head entirely into the boiling kettle. Usually women gathered in the center of the village, sang songs and exchanged the news. Local population in some villages try to revert to a custom.

Totally 12 research works were presented during the conference from 8 Udora educational institutions. All young researchers got certificates and valuable presents.

In addition, Model River Mezen project coordinator Nikolay Shilov told about Mezen River ichthyofaunal and Mezen salmon. The representatives of Komi PA Center conducted a quiz game and gave an advisory opinion about the peculiarities of the school research works preparation.

The Istoki conference for the first time was held in 2015 under Model River Mezen project.

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