UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 28, 2019. EVRAZ Holding selected the finalists of its grant contest in Mezhdurechensk. The winners got announced in the course of a solemn ceremony and can now implement their projects, EVRAZ Raspadskaya Coal Company’s PR Department reports.

EVRAZ Holding’s grant contest has been coordinated in Mezhdurechensk since 2017. So far, nearly two hundred applications have been submitted by the contestants, and 24 best projects (total funding: RUB 6 million) got implemented in 2017 and 2018.

Thanks to EVRAZ’s grants, a number of children’s sports playgrounds got set up in Mezhdurechensk in 2017; besides, clinics and hospitals got fitted with equipment and appliances for people with disabilities; there was also a series of art contests, exhibitions, educational quest (including environmentally-focused ones).

Twelve projects got implemented in 2018: there appeared children’s playgrounds, an open-air movie theater, a sewing cafe, and some new flower gardens. Also, speech therapy and life skills classrooms got set up in one of the local kindergartens. Two sports event took place as well.

This year, contestants submitted seventy-two applications relating to education, environment, sports, culture, urban improvements, arts and crafts, and supporting people with disabilities. 11 best projects will get EVRAZ’s funding.