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On February 26, the governor of the region, Mikhail Kuznetsov, held a working meeting with the timber merchants of the Pskov region. Deputy Governor Alexander Kotov and Chairman of the Pskov Region Licensing and Environmental Management Committee Vladimir Afanasiev also took part in its work. The meeting discussed the practice of holding investment contests on forest management in the region. At the end of 2006, part of the forest management authority was transferred from the federal to the regional level. / PLN

As a result of the reform of the forest industry in the Pskov region, its staff was reduced from 2,400 people to 760. This became known during a meeting of the Forest Club, which took place on February 16 in the hall of the Central Library of the Strugokrasnensky District, and was devoted to the application of the new Forest Code in the Pskov region. Since January 1, 2007, the subject of the Russian Federation has most of the functions and powers in forest management. The region must develop forest plans and forest management regulations, in accordance with which forests will be exploited and restored. The functions of supervision and control of the activities of forest users, as well as the protection of forests from poachers, pests, and fires also fall on the shoulders of the subjects. The Forestry Agency for the Pskov Region has been liquidated since the new year. The main structure is the Committee for Nature Management and Licensing, under which departments for environmental protection, bioresources, forestry, control and state environmental expertise have been created. / PLN

On February 22, Prosecutor of the Pskov Region Nikolai Lepikhin took part in a meeting on the results of the work of the prosecutor's offices of the subjects of the Federation of the North-Western Federal District in 2006, which was held in Veliky Novgorod under the chairmanship of the Prosecutor General of Russia Yuri Chaika. Nikolai Lepikhin made a report on the results of work for the past year. As a result of the work, the meeting participants adopted a number of decisions aimed at strengthening law and order, strengthening the fight against crime, combating corruption and violations of legislation on state and municipal service, preventing and suppressing violations of laws on combating terrorism and extremism. / PLN

On February 22, the solemn opening of the new production of Window Manufactory LLC took place - a plant for the production of plastic products, which has no analogues in the North-West. This is a fully automated line with a capacity of 120 items per day. The enterprise is organized on the basis of the production facilities of the Pskovtehgaz holding of enterprises. The total investment is about 25 million rubles, the estimated payback period is 2.5 years. The production uses the equipment of German firms "Urban" and "Rapid". Successful commercial activities and growth prospects were wished to the management of the enterprise by the General Director of the Profine plant Hans Willy Neumann, the Executive Director of the Rapid representative office (Moscow) Alexander Goryunov, the General Director of the Urban company Vladimir Tsibulin, the President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Pskov Region Vladimir Zubov and other. / PLN

From February 19 to 22, a seminar was held at the Pskov Regional Institute for Advanced Training of Education Workers to exchange experience in scientific and methodological work at the regional and municipal levels. The seminar was organized by the Department of Education of the Pskov Region, the Pskov Regional Institute for Advanced Training of Educational Workers, the Department of Education of the Administration of the Kuyurgazinsky District of the Republic of Bashkortostan. The participants of the seminar got acquainted with the organization of pre-profile and profile education in the Palkinskaya secondary school, with the specifics of the education management system in the Pushkinogorsk district, met with the head of the administration of the Dedovichi district, Dmitry Guydo. / PLN

Velikoluksky children's and youth theater "Troubadour" won first place in the first International competition of theatrical art in Berlin (Germany), held from February 22 to 25. 8 children's groups from several countries of the world took part in the competition, each presented one performance to the jury. All productions were united by a common theme - "Her Majesty the Tale". The competition opened with the play "Shoot" by the Troubadour Theater from the city of Velikie Luki. Also in the program of the festival were the play "Cinderella" by the Bonn children's theater "I", "The Bremen Town Musicians" by the theater "Vaganty" from the city of Dedovsk, the production of "Pinocchio" by the Moscow theater "Spark" and others. In addition to the three main prizes (statues in the form of the symbol of Berlin - the Brandenburg Gate), the jury presented awards in two more categories - "Discovery" and "Hope". / PLN

The 42nd edition of the series of works "Mikhailovskaya Pushkiniana" of the State Museum-Reserve of A. S. Pushkin "Mikhailovskoe" has been published. The 42nd book of the series contains materials from the 9th February Museum Readings in memory of S. S. Geychenko “Literary Topography of Historical Places” and the Mikhailovsky Pushkin Readings “1826”. Both conferences were held in the Pushkinsky Reserve in 2006 - in February and August, respectively. / PAI

On February 26-28, the regional festival of children's creativity "My Pushkin" will be held in Pushkinskiye Gory. The organizers of the event are the Department of Education of the Pskov Region and the Pskov Regional House of Childhood and Youth "Rainbow". The event will bring together about 200 participants, winners of the regional stages of the festival, from 20 districts of the region. The children will take part in the work of 5 sections: "Musical", "Artistic Word", "Choreographic", "Theatrical", "Research" and "Section of Young Poets and Prose Writers". On February 28, the results will be summed up and the names of the winners will be announced, who will receive the right to participate in the All-Russian stage of the festival this autumn. / PLN

On February 19, the Pskov journalist, writer and historian Oleg Andreyevich Kalkin died late in the evening. O. A. Kalkin was born in 1943 in Tomsk, after high school he worked as a bricklayer, then he served in the rocket troops. He came to Pskov to study and graduated from the Faculty of History of the Pskov Pedagogical Institute. S. M. Kirov. From 1974 to 1994, he lived with his family in Estonia, taught history at school, combined teaching with the post of editor of one of the book publishers, and also headed the Slavia cultural and historical society. Since 1994 he lived in Pskov, worked as an editor of the regional radio, his stories were published in collections and periodicals. The writer devoted a lot of time to historical research on the theme of the white movement, wrote the book "On the rebellious frontiers of Russia." Oleg Kalkin was a member of the Pskov regional branch of the Writers' Union of Russia and headed it for two years. / PAI