There is a week before the end of the V RGS photo contest "The Most Beautiful Country". 21 228 photos have been uploaded to the website of the main contest. And there have been uploaded only 1910 photos for participation in the children's contest.
The photo contest "The Most Beautiful Country" is a large-scale media project, in which tens of thousands photographers participate annually. The competition is dedicated to the preservation of wildlife of Russia and the promotion of careful attitude to the environment. It was held for the first time in 2015. During four years of existence of the contest, about 400 thousand pictures were uploaded to the site of the project: photo.rgo.ru. The main condition is that the photo should be taken in Russia.
Acceptance of works for the V photo contest began on October 1, 2018. It has 12 categories: "Landscape", "From Sunset Till Dawn", "Mammals", "Birds", "Macroworld", "Underwater World", "Those Funny Animals", "Art of Wildlife", "Russia From a Birds Eye View", "Many-Sided Russia". And there is a new category - "Architecture" and "Taken on a Smartphone". The most popular category is "Landscape". Photographers who are ready to compete in this nomination have uploaded about 6347 photos.
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The author of the best photo will receive a prize - 250 thousand rubles.
The new part of the contest appeared in 2019 - "The Most Beautiful Country Through the Eyes of Children". Young photographers aged from 5 to 16 years old can participate in it. Nominations: "Landscape", "World of Animals", "World of Birds", "World of People" and "Makroworld".
The main prize in each of the nominations of the contest “The Most Beautiful Country Through Children's Eyes” is a professional camera.
The RGS always strives to tell about the nature, history and culture of Russia.
The Russian Geographical Society reminds: acceptance of works will last until 31 March 2019. The results of the competition will be announced at the end of May. The organizers would like to ask the contest participants to send their photos in advance, because the influx of those, who wish upload it in the last days, may cause the site failure.
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Public figures, art historians, photographers will evaluate the photos. The primary selection of photographs will be carried out by independent experts, including well-known photographers and heads of the country's largest photo services. The chairman of the jury of the competition will be the head of the TASS photo information editors office Konstantin Leifer.