OREANDA-NEWS.  The winners of Colors of Rostov annual children's drawing contest were awarded in Rostov-on-Don.

Empils, the leader of the Russian market of paint and varnish and zinc white, has been organizing a contest for young artists since 1998. The contest is timed for Rostov-on-Don City Day celebration; Colors of Rostov contest is included into the celebration program by the city administration. Works can be performed in any painting technique and should be devoted to the capital of the Don region.

In 2007 over 600 participants at the age of 4-17 from Rostov-on-Don and Rostov region submitted their works; over a hundred of them received prizes and presents from Empils, Rostov-on-Don and Proletarsky district administrations. Young painters and their parents got together at the traditional city festival; managers of the company, representatives of the administration and the cultural community came to congratulate them.


The contest participants received a governmental telegram with congratulations from Zoya Stepanova, Deputy of the RF State Duma, representative of the Edinaya Rossia party, Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Culture, who attends to the Colors of Rostov contest. With her assistance in 2005 Colors of Rostov in the Sate Duma exhibition and a trip of the best painters to Moscow were organized.

During the event in the Rostov department of the Theatre Union of Russia there was an entertainment program and a dessert buffet with sweets. There was an exhibition of all contest drawings in the lobby during a week. The admission to the exhibition was free.

For Empils Colors of Rostov contest is a part of the social initiative program. It includes environmental protection, support of culture and care of the younger generation in the region of the basic company infrastructure. Empils renders targeted material support to educational and medical institutions in Rostov-on-Don, cultural and historical objects and cathedrals of the Russian Orthodox Church.