The winner of the regional competition in the category “Leader of Environmental Responsibility” was awarded by the Governor of the Orenburg Region Denis Pasler to the Deputy General Director of Rosseti Volga, PJSC, Director of the Orenburgenergo Branch Viktor Kazhaev. The award ceremony took place in the celebration hall of the Orenburg Region Government. 

“Leader of the Economy” is an annual regional competition among economic entities and municipalities of the region, which in their activities have achieved high socio-economic indicators. The competition is held by the government of the Orenburg Region together with the Orenburg Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.

The jury praised the long-term program of action to protect birds from mass death on high-voltage lines with bare wires. The program is being implemented by the Orenburgenergo Branch jointly with the Russian Bird Protection Union. So, in 2019 in the Orenburg Region, power engineers installed more than 6,250 bird protection devices on insulators of overhead power lines with a voltage of 6 and 10 kV. Power engineers paid special attention to the sections of power transmission lines passing through the territory of reserves. The work on bird protection is especially relevant for the Orenburg region, which is the habitat and seasonal migrations of more than 280 bird species (including 67 species listed in the Red Data Book of the region).