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Autumn Arbor Day in Sholokhov Museum

An autumn holiday – Arbor Day, dedicated to the Year of Ecology in Russia, was held on October 13, 2017, in the Museum-Reserve of M.A.Sholokhov. The holiday was first marked over 100 years ago, and in 2012, it was recovered on the initiative of the Rostov Region Governor V.Y.Golubev.

125 schoolchildren from the Rostov, Volgograd and Voronezh regions, the Republic of Kalmykia, the workers of the Museum-Reserve of M.A.Sholokhov and local forestry specialists took part in the action of planting trees in the environmental and literary forest park “Pearl of Eurasia” laid out by the members of the children and youth environmental movement “Sholokhov Source”.

The children were greeted and wished a good luck by T.Y.Turchin, Deputy Director for Environment and Rational Land Use of the Museum-Reserve of M.A.Sholokhov, V.F.Belikov, Acting Director of the Sholokhov State Agricultural Association “Les” of the Rostov Region, and L.V.Kurinskaya, a docent of the Don State Agricultural University.

The children planted seedlings of arboreal and bushy species on the sites assigned to their schools. So the children from the Volgograd Region planted poplars “Stalingradsky” and in the centre of the plot – Betula pendula – as a symbol of Russia. The Voronezh Region is famous for their ship’s oak groves, so the children of the Vorobyov District planted oaks. The site of the Republic of Kalmykia was added with drought-resistant semi-desert plant species: tamarix, juzgun and teresken.

The most part of forest planting was carried out by the young conservationists from 12 schools of the Rostov Region. The children planted oaks and pines predominant in the area, and helped in landscaping of the plots of the Krasnodar and Stavropol Territories and the republics of Kabardino-Balkaria and North Ossetia.

Some of the plants were brought from the children’s school nurseries. In all, there were planted 450 trees during the holiday.

Thus, the forest park is being created by children. The young conservationists, who took part in planting the forest park, noted that their trees planted during the previous years, have rooted and grew bigger.

Besides planting the seedlings the children learned about the previously made species designs and memorable decorations symbolizing the literary work and places, where the classics of Russian and world literature lived and worked: A.S.Pushkin, L.N.Tolstoy, A.P.Chekhov, M.A.Sholokhov, S.A.Yesenin, R.Gamzatov, Y.Kupala, D.Defoe, and others.

The members of the Arbor Day holiday made their plans for the further landscaping of the environmental and literary forest park “Pearl of Eurasia”.

Oksana Turchina
Ivan Kozelnikov