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Significant statistics
58
completed urban improvement projects
>400
became a members of active locals community
>3600
participants
SIBUR has been supporting this project since 2018. Its main goal is to help build a vibrant urban community that would suggest projects that are important for the city and would be willing to commit to implementing them on its own. The project has included educational sessions, artwork contests, environmental and volunteer campaigns.The project was included in the 2021 Nash Vklad (Our Contribution) ranking for its role in facilitating the implementation of the national Housing and Urban Environment project.

Educational program

People representing urban communities have been given an opportunity to participate in an extensive educational program that includes a contest of art projects, a workshop on how to promote good neighboring and forge local communities, a program on fostering creativity in children and youths, and a program for developing projects seeking to improve the urban environment.

The list of the educational program’s participants included young architects, designers, urban planners, sociologists, and urban activists.

2018: Dzerzhinsk and Kstovo

Among the project’s highlights was the City at the Starting Line forum, where experts in shaping and improving urban environments discussed with the residents of Dzerzhinsk and Kstovo how to effectively promote land improvement, develop their own spaces, develop and strengthen good neighborly relations. As one of the results of the forum, each city saw their own local communities form where members took part in developing projects to improve urban public areas and spaces.

2019: Blagoveshchensk and Pyt-Yakh

The 2019 program was hosted by smaller towns, such as Blagoveshchensk (Republic of Bashkortostan) and Pyt-Yakh (Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug). It focused on strongly encouraging local residents’ participation in creative and volunteering campaigns.

Blagoveshchensk and Pyt-Yakh hosted the following events: the City at the Starting Line forum, a series of environmental campaigns titled A City’s Geometry, and a contest of artistic projects. In addition, a functional co-working space was commissioned. The project to improve the area around the city pond in Blagoveshchensk was entered in a contest announced by the Ministry of Construction of the Russian Federation.

2020-2021: Dzerzhinsk, Nyagan and Gubkinsky

Each of the cities hosted a forum dedicated to the topic of urban development. As part of the forums, the residents of Dzerzhinsk, Nyagan and Gubkinsky took part in transforming urban environments of their home cities. 2021 saw nearly 2,000 local residents take part in the project’s implementation. The project helped develop three design layouts for improving public spaces in these cities, one for each city. The projects developed in Dzerzhinsk and Gubkinsky emerged as winners of the RF Ministry of Construction’s Nationwide Contest of the best projects for creating a comfortable urban environment in small towns and heritage settlements of Russia. Federal investments totaling RUB126,250,000 have been mobilized for developing the urban environment in these cities. The project in Nyagan was implemented in the framework of the local Program for the development of comfortable urban environment.

The project made it possible to create creativity-infused areas (co-working spaces) and build functional art objects in the cities. As a result of this joint effort, vibrant communities of caring citizens have emerged there.

2021-2022: Nyagan and Blagoveshchensk

As a follow-on to the project implemented in 2021, the two cities became venues for master classes, fora and other events held as part of the land development efforts in a drive to foster the establishment and development of communities of entrepreneurial and caring city residents. Thanks to the active participation of the cities' residents, two applications were put together for entry in the All-Russian Contest of the Best Projects for Creating a Comfortable Urban Environment. One of the entries is Nyagan’s Muvem Yokh project to renovate and beautify the city’s Skver Severyan (Northerners’ Public Garden). Blagoveshchensk (Republic of Bashkortostan) saw a new parklet built in the city along with upgrades mad to one of its co-working spaces, while Nyagan now has three new art objects built and installed in the city.