Following the results of the competitions the best expert in photography will be defined.

In Vologda, employees of IDGC of North-West press services pass a yearly professional examination. Within the limits of the yearly competition of professional skills of public relations experts which, according to the tradition, takes place in parallel with Interregional Competitions among operating personnel of the company branches, PR managers compete in the mastery and choose the best expert of the year 2009 in the nomination “Photo PRofessional”.

This year the competition becomes the closing stage of on-site and off-site studies at photography skills school. All employees of PR divisions of the united company including IDGC of North-West press service passed training in this school from March till June.

Within the framework of the program of training in photography skills, the employees of PR divisions who within the limits of requirements imposed by IDGC of North-West to employees of press services are obliged to show professional-level skills of photographing, passed the theoretical courses and performed home works on the subject specified.

Training and summarizing was held in 4 stages during which the school students had to learn features and professional In Vologda, employees of IDGC of North-West press services pass a yearly professional examination. Within the limits of the yearly competition of professional skills of public relations experts which, according to the tradition, takes place in parallel with Interregional Competitions among operating personnel of the company branches, PR managers compete in the mastery and choose the best expert of the year 2009 in the nomination “Photo PRofessional”.

This year the competition becomes the closing stage of on-site and off-site studies at photography skills school. All employees of PR divisions of the united company including IDGC of North-West press service passed training in this school from March till June.

Within the framework of the program of training in photography skills, the employees of PR divisions who within the limits of requirements imposed by IDGC of North-West to employees of press services are obliged to show professional-level skills of photographing, passed the theoretical courses and performed home works on the subject specified.

Training and summarizing was held in 4 stages during which the school students had to learn features and professional requirements at reportage photography surveying in disaster and assigned conditions, portrait and static objects shoot.

At each stage, all employees were to present 5 pictures meeting certain requirements in strict target dates for estimation and review. In case of poor-quality performance of the task, the students had to perform works anew. But such cases were registered only at the first stage.

Each participant of the competition presented more than 20 photos in total towards the final competition stage which is held in Vologda.

Following the results of preliminary stages, the best portrait and reportage in disaster conditions, according to the head of the school Anton Shoshin, was presented by Tatyana Nikiforova ("Pskovenergo"); "The Best Static Object" was fixed by Irina Kirillova ("Kolenergo"); and Elena Vakhrusheva succeeded in the best reportage ("Arhenergo").

Photos made by Natalia Lebedeva (IDGC of North-West), Andrey Yastrebov ("Vologdaenergo") and Tatyana Abramova ("Komienergo") were also distinguished.

On 3 June, the final stage of the PRofessional photo competition started - photography support of competitions of professional skills of operational mobile brigades of IDGC of North-West branches, which passed on "Energetik" site in Vologda.

The final stage appeared for PR managers to be the most difficult not only due to tense struggle (the fact is that three leaders were defined following the results of the previous stages (Tatyana Nikiforova from "Pskovenergo", Elena Vakhrushevs from "Arhenergo" and Tatyana Abramova from "Komienergo")), but also by virtue of natural weather conditions.

It set in for heavy shower in Vologda on 3 June from the very morning, which, figuratively speaking, "revved up" and extremely complicated performance of tasks. The participants of PRofessional photo competitions are not only to take pictures of the events happening on the site of the "Energetik" educational center within the limits of the competitions of operating mobile brigades of IDGC of North-West branches, but also to photograph in difficult weather conditions according to all the rules they learned for all period of the training.

According to the tradition, within the limits of the competition for professional skills of IDGC of North-West press services' employees, master classes will be held by the head of photography school, chairman of the jury of the "Profession of Power Specialist 2008" competition, the judge of the "Supports of the World 2007" photo competition Anton Shoshin, and one of the leading photo designers of the North-West region Valery Malinovsky.

On 5 June - the final day of the competitions which takes place in Vologda under the leadership of IDGC of North-West, the winner of the competitions of professional skills among employees of the united company’s press services will be named, and the best will be defined in the nominations "Best Reportage", "Best Composition in Reportage", "Best Photo Shoot".

The organizing committee of the competitions also founded a special prize "Public Recognition". Its winner will be named by photography school students by secret voting.