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Summer 2013

Volunteer Eco-educational Camp

Prosvet

Toksovo lakes, Leningrad region

July 1-10 2013

o Russian citizens with pro-active

attitude to life

o Foreign volunteers

o Public ecological organizations

o National business companies

o Foreign business companies

o Local administration authorities

‘Prosvet’ participants:

Everyone can share oneself a bit! Camp Prosvet motto

Project goal – to develop volunteer movement in Russia!

Tasks for the Camp: o Cleaning up littered shores of

four Toksovo lakes;

o Cultural and educational

program for the participants;

o Search for systematic solution

how to save the Lakes territory

from littering by holiday-

makers.

Not a day without a good deed.

Leo Tolstoy

Place for the Camp is not a random choice… o It is a unique natural and landscape

complex for the Leningrad region.

o Local inhabitants are involved into

intensive activities to preserve the

Lakes - they hinder unsanctioned

development, clean up the Lakes

shores, improve the recreation sites

by themselves.

oPublic regional organization of eco-

activists protecting citizen rights to a

favorable environment - ‘Toksovo

lakes’ - managed to broaden the

borders of the existing specially

protected natural territory and also to

create new territories of regional

significance on Toksovo lakes. It is worth helping where it is needed rather than where

you want.

For 10 days our volunteers have collected 1535 garbage

bags or 184,2 cubic meters or almost 10 Kamaz lorries

35 % of the collected waste has been sent for recycling:

• 150 kilos of plastic bottles (PET)

• 98 kilos of aluminum • 507 kilos of other metals

• 5 000 kilos of glass

Our volunteers have cleaned up the littered shores of the lakes Kurgolovskoe, Svetloe, Khepoyarvi, Veroyarvi.

We have agreed upon installation and maintenance of the waste containers with the Administration Containers were installed

near:

• Lake Kurgolovskoe;

• Lake Kavgolovskoe

• …

Various daily activities: 34 ACTIVITIES

FOR 10 DAYS

The following people have visited the Camp and held lessons for our volunteers: • Dmitry Artamonov – Head of the toxic program at Greenpeace Russia;

• Gennady Trostyanetskiy – famous theatre director;

• Alexandr Khaytin - lifeguard of the search-and-rescue team ‘Extremum’, dog specialist

• Roman Sablin – ecologist, eco-lifestyle trainer;

• Fyodor Tarabykin – director for Bureau of eco-solutions GreenUp;

• Denis Osipov – coach, corporate trainer, owner of beauty salons network;

• Svetlana Khakimova – eco-cafe ‘ECOLOKA’ and many others

The following people have visited the Camp and held lessons for our volunteers:

120 people have become participants of the Camp. Volunteers from Russia (Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Voronezh, Nizhny Novgorod,

Perm), Spain, Italy, Ukraine, Turkey and Finland. Age of the participants varied from 5 to 55 years!

The following survey has been conducted among holiday-makers of Kurgolovskoe lake

Would you refrain from driving a car on the lake shore if you got to know that: • The Water Code of the RF forbids any auto or motor vehicles on the shore line; • Prohibition on cars allows holiday-makers to enjoy rest really naturally – no music, no fumes…; • Prohibition on cars is your contribution to preservation of the lake Nature (soil cover, animals – all will thank you)

Thanks to digital laboratory «Scientific entertainment» we have managed to study the water in 4 lakes and a spring on Kurgolovskoe lake

test,place t, C О2,

mg/l E, mSm/sm рН Cl

mg/l NO3 mg/l М Add. parameters

Spring on Kurgolovskoe lake (07/03/13) 16,6 9,2 0,09 7,2 7,80 0,0 0,0

Specific smell, ferro color, flavor smell intensified

Spring on Kurgolovskoe lake (sample 1 a few days later – 07/08/13) 16,8 16,8 0,07 7,6 8,20 0,0 1,0

, turbidness increased dramatically

Veroyarvi 15,8 13,3 0,11 7,5 33,00 2,4 0,6 Khepoyarvi 17,1 10,7 0,04 7,7 17,50 4,6 0,5 Svetloe 24,2 14,6 0,09 7,5 28,00 7,6 2,2 Dark color Kurgolovskoe 20,0 16,7 0,06 7,8 24,00 3,2 1,2

Parameters for comparison NA >6

0,3 for lakes; from 0,035 to 0,1 - springs

from 6 to 9 <300 <45 <1

Conclusions: parameters of water from the lakes Veroyarvi, Svetloe and Kurgolovskoe are normal for swimming and other household needs. Water in Khepoyarvi is very clean and also drinkable. But the results of study of spring water on the lake Kurgolovskoe are alerting. The materials were transferred to PRO ‘Toksovo lakes’.

But for the help of our friends and partners this Camp would

not have taken place

We thank the Committee of the Civil

Initiatives for catering organisation and

equipment purchase (solar battery, portable

radios, tents, field kitchen)

We thank JSC ‘Avtopark № 1

‘Spetstrans’, Saint-Petersburg, for

handy and reliable garbage bags

We thank LLC ‘Working gloves’,

Saint-Petersburg, for comfortable,

reliable and good gloves and

raincoats which rescued us from

storm

We thank LLC ‘VIVEZZA’, Moscow,

and LLC ‘Artpilot.ru’, Moscow, for

colorful and beautiful T-shirts

Special thanks to ‘Artpilot.ru’ for

spunbond bags

We thank Pilorama Rappolovo for panels,

which created coziness and warmth for

us

We thank company ‘Nestle’, Moscow, for

tasty chocolate and dry breakfasts

We thank LLC ‘Ecoway’ , Moscow, for eco-

friendly and safe household chemicals and

shampoos

We thank LLC ‘RamEgo’, Moscow, for design of the

official website of the Camp

We thank ‘Right games’, Moscow, for wonderful

table games at our disposal

We thank company ‘Scientific entertainment’

for the digital laboratory at our disposal

We thank eco-shop ‘ARIVERA’, Saint-

Petersburg, for eco-friendly tea and

coffee

We thank LLC ‘PEK’, Moscow, for help with

transportation of our baggage from Saint-

Petersburg to Moscow

For energetic and very needed help we thank

the members of the public organisation

‘Toksovo lakes’ and Toksovo inhabitants,

especially: • Nadezhda Osipova

• Ivan Zorin

• Irina Andrianova

• Ivan Kovba

• Gavrila Vaulin

• Andrey Fadeev

• Dmitry Bogolyubov

• Victor Kondakov

• Mikhail Simonov

• Stepan Kovalyov

• Natal’ya Rainer

• Dmitry Pechnikov

• Anton Bukevich

• Olga Dmitrichenko

• Anna Zorina

• Elena Ginzburg

• Artyom Krus’

Be the Change You Wish to See in the World Gandhi

We thank the Administration of the Toksovo

municipal unit, represented by Khristenko

Alexandr Viktorovich and Denisenko Alexey

Viktorovich for fruitful cooperation and gifted

sport equipment

We thank Mad’yarov Andrey and Kuznetsov

Dmitry for organising removal of glass,

plastic and metals for recycling

THANKS TO EVERYBODY, WHO WAS THERE AND WHO HELPED!

Next camp will take place in 2014 – we are waiting for friends and partners!

Official website of the Camp:

www.prosvet-lager.ru Official group in Vkontakte:

http://vk.com/lager_prosvet Contacts of the Camp organiser:

kolovska@gmail.com 8-926-219-75-30 Alina Kolovska, Head of the Club of Friends of Bitsevski Park,

Participant of the Coalition ‘PRO Othody’’

Our Camp mentioned in the mass media and

the Internet

July 12 – presentation of the Camp ‘Prosvet-2013’ results took place in book club ‘Bukvoed’, Vosstaniya Square, 13

The Camp activities were covered in the news item of TV channel ‘Perviy’, Saint-Petersburg

July 11 – live talk about the Camp results took place on ‘Radio of Russia’, Saint-Petersburg

Our Camp mentioned in the mass media

and the Internet

The Camp information partners

• http://tvrain.ru/teleshow/eco/news/ • http://np-mag.ru/news/2013/07/18/prosvet-2013-result/ • http://www.metronews.ru/novosti/volontery-iz-raznyh-stran-mira-sdelali-prirodu-

toksovo-chishhe/Tpomgv---qJ0cGs9sgPwms/?from=nf3 • http://www.baltinfo.ru/2013/06/18/Toksovo-zachistyat-ot-musora-361350 • http://lenoblnews.info/ecology/item/3261-eco_lager.html • http://news.rambler.ru/19750797/ • http://openbereg.ru/?p=3411 • http://www.grad-petrov.ru/news.phtml?news_id=34869 • http://lenles.info/za-prirodu-protiv-musora/ • http://news.mail.ru/inregions/st_petersburg/91/society/13975869/ • http://online47.ru/a/2013/06/18/Ubirat_Toksovo_sedutsja/ • http://re-port.ru/pressreleases/165793/ • http://www.epochtimes.ru/content/view/77102/9/

• http://news.rambler.ru/20200655/ • http://www.bookvoed.ru/event?id=1121 • http://polpred.com/?ns=1&ns_id=840094 • http://vk.com/vita_spb?w=wall-30456083_3065%2Fall • http://www.lenoblinform.ru/news/Volontery-sobrali-poltory-tysjachi-meshkov-

musora.html • http://vk.com/doc2654716_208054562?hash=08a91bfd4e54a9f77a&dl=66be4d0850a

797c87a • http://cleanlife-kazan.ru/news/volontery-sobrali-15-tys-meshkov-musora-s-beregov-

ozer-v-lenoblasti.htmlhttp://green3green.livejournal.com/45472.html • http://www.eco-nomos.ru/2013/07/musor-20/ • http://www.bravica.info/ru/life/ecology.htm • http://hike.ru/metki/prosvet • http://musora.bolshe.net/news/tag_%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B3%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%

8C+%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%82.html • http://www.da-voda.com/news/volontery-ochistili-ozera-pod-peterburgom-ot-musora/ • http://www.ochumelkin-club.ru/ • http://www.dobronews.info/ • http://naschnordwest.ru/2013/07/10/ochen-vazhnaya-rabota-kak-i-uborka-

politicheskix-otxodov-v-rossii/#more-2883

• http://www.world4u.ru/news000249.html?PHPSESSID=69964a0501f4040ece6c6581d2f190fd

• http://www.centrecon.ru/node/557 • https://www.facebook.com/proothodycoalition • http://www.ecowiki.ru • http://www.centrecon.ru/node/599 • http://forum.bitsevskipark.ru/index.php?showtopic=2243 • http://greenhunter.ru/blog?id=3629 • http://www.be-in.ru/events/9932-eco_july/ • http://hike.ru/travelblog/ekologicheskiy-lager-prosvet-2013-toksovo.html