Subject to the Regulation on the Competition, the envelopes with applications for participation in the federal stage of the competition have been opened on August 19, 2016.
The Organizing Committee has received 30 applications. The members of the working group to review federal stage competition documents examined the completeness of the documents submitted and the accuracy of their execution. Following the results of the working group meeting, 30 participants were admitted to competition, including 28 representatives of the specialized agencies for the forest protection from fires of the Russian regions, the representative of the Forestry Department of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, and the representative of the paraborne fire-fighting service of Avialesookhrana.
The list of competitors admitted to the Russian National Competition “The Best Wildfire Fighter 2016”:
1. The Belgorod Region - Sergey Meshcheryakov;
2. The Bryansk Region - Artem Ilienko;
3. The Vladimir Region - Vyacheslav Spiridonov;
4. The Voronezh Region - Alexander Yerofeyev;
5. The Vologda Region - Nikolay Gorbunov;
6. The Kaluga Region - Pavel Mikhalin;
7. The Kemerovo Region - Vitaly Fadeev;
8. The Krasnoyarsk Region - Yuri Katyshev;
9. The Kirov Region - Alexey Tarasov;
10. The Lipetsk Region - Alexander Shmartsev;
11. The Moscow Region - Alexander Dyachuk;
12. The Nizhny Novgorod Region - Aleksander Dorofeev;
13. The Pskov Region - Artem Denisov;
14. The Perm Region - Georgy Roganin;
15. The Republic of Tatarstan - Fayaz Gaptelkhakov;
16. The Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) - Nurgun Nikanorov;
17. The Republic of Komi - Evgeny Peretyatko;
18. The Ryazan Region - Zemchenkov Vladimir;
19. The Sverdlovsk Region - Stepan Batenyov;
20. The Smolensk Region - Artem Chistyakov;
21. The Tver Region - Yuri Akimov;
22. The Tula Region – Eugeny Tatarinov;
23. The Tyumen Region - Andrey Pecherkin;
24. The Tomsk Region - Alexander Karnayev;
25. The Khanty-Mansijsk Autonomous District - Andrey Zuev;
26. The Khabarovsk Region - Sergey Vyazovoy;
27. The Yaroslavl Region - Nikolay Senturin;
28. The Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District - Sergey Terekhov;
29. The Forestry Department of the Ministry of Defense of Russia - Leonid Yegorov;
30. Avialesookhrana – Eugeny Anisov.
The Organizing Committee wishes the wildfire fighters success in passing theoretical and practical tests, in gaining new knowledge while exchanging experience with colleagues, as well as courage and being cheerful and optimistic!