STG-Siberia Sums Up Results of the First Phase of the STG Social and Educational Project in Kuzbass

Prizes and Gifts Awarded to the Winners

Results of the first phase of the social and educational project underway by STG-Siberia JSC were summed up to attract attention of the public, press, and high school students to the facilities and events of the cultural life in the capital of Kuzbass and residents of the Siberian Cultural and Educational Complex.

As a socially oriented company, Stroytransgaz Group is actively implementing a number of cultural and educational programmes. As part of this work, 76 representatives of mass media from Kemerovo visited the Kemerovo Branch of the Moscow State Academy of Choreography. School students — young journalists and bloggers — took part in the visit along with the professionals. In the follow-up of this unusual visit, where everyone could try on pointe shoes, stand at the barre, find out what ballerinas had for lunch and why dance notes differed from ordinary notes, young journalists sent their articles, photo and video reports to the contest.

Eight works won the first phase of the project in the categories of Photo Report, Video Report, Text, with the jury including Valery Kachin, Chairman of the Kuzbass Union of Journalists, Artur Chepkasov, Head of the Chair of Journalism and the 20th Century Russian Literature at the Institute of Philology, Foreign Languages, and Media Communications, Kemerovo State University, representatives of STG and the Branch of the Moscow State Academy of Choreography.

All the winners received prizes and gifts from the organisers – Stroytransgaz-Siberia JSC, the Branch of the Moscow State Academy of Choreography in Kemerovo, and the Kuzbass Union of Journalists.

The Grand Prix of the project – pointe shoes – was awarded to the first-place winner. Elizaveta Bystrova (Media Generation School of Practical Journalism of the Kuzbass Centre for Additional Education headed by E.D. Filonova) has got them.  

 

Elizaveta Bystrova, Winner of the First Stage 

The project jury members noted the high quality of the works presented. The awarding ceremony was organically held as part of a large summary concert on the stage of the Branch of the Moscow State Academy of Choreography, timed to the International Music Day.

“And yet the main award,” shared her impression from the event Elena Filonova, Head of the Media Generation School of Practical Journalism of the Kuzbass Centre for Additional Education, “are those big and small discoveries made by the participants.” For example, this is what Arina Rost wrote in her contest article: “It turns out that dancers from an early age dedicate their days to many hours of training and strict diets to master the art of ballet, checking their bodies and their own will for strength. Only those strong in spirit and devoted to ballet can live and study like this! For all one knows, I might see the birth of a new Maya Plisetskaya at the barre that day….” This is a real miracle: to be present at the birth of future stars: journalists, musicians, dancers are still just children, but they are our hope, our future little stars. It’s great that we teach them to understand each other, to keep safe and appreciate each other.

Excerpt from the Concert

The cycle of events of the social and educational project started on 13 April last year.
When describing the purpose of the event to the participants, Sergey Mariinsky, General Director of STG-Siberia JSC, noted:

“The project for the construction of cultural and educational complexes is exceptional. As envisioned by President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, four of them are being built to preserve a single cultural space in this country: in Vladivostok, Kemerovo, Sevastopol, and Kaliningrad. STG Group is the general contractor for all the projects. STG-Siberia JSC is building the Siberian cultural and educational complex. One of the mottos of our company is “We Perform Cultural Construction”. But it is not enough to erect a building of state-of-the-art theatre or museum to generate a cultural environment. So, we took up large-scale and important educational efforts in the very beginning in 2019, together with the complex residents – branches of the Moscow State Academy of Choreography, Central Music School — Academy of Performing Arts, Russian Museum, Mariinsky Theatre, Russian State Institute of Performing Arts, with the support of Governor Sergey Tsivilev, authorities of all levels, the Information Policy Department of the Kuzbass Government Administration, journalists, and active residents of the territory. In fact, this means that we are performing “cultural construction” not only in terms of erecting metal beams or planting lawns, but we are contributing to changes in the mentality of people in the region of our presence, “tuning” the cultural wave.  

The project was presented at the 5th Baltic Cultural Forum and aroused great interest among its participants. Upon completion of the first event in the cycle, the project team is getting ready for the next tour.