The contest is held by the Federal Forestry Agency together with the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation with the assistance of the Committee of Forestry of Moscow Region and the Ministry of Education of Moscow Region. Following the results of the federal (correspondence) stage, senior pupils, students of educational establishments of secondary professional education, heads of school forestries – all in all, 101 people from 46 constituent entities of the Russian Federation were invited to participate in the final stage of the contest.
During the contest the Republic of Tatarstan is represented by school forestry “Heirs of nature” (Arsk forestry) and Lubyansky Forest Engineering College.