Residents of the northern territories of the Krasnoyarsk Territory will receive grants from Norilsk Nickel for social projects

In the Krasnoyarsk Territory, caring residents of Norilsk and Taimyr will receive grant support from Norilsk Nickel for the implementation of socially beneficial initiatives. The mining and metallurgical company announced the winners of the annual competition of social projects.

In total, 351 applications were received for the competition in 2025. The topics of the initiatives are varied – from improving the urban environment to ideas for creating an eco-culture. Norilsk Nickel notes that the competition is part of the People of the Territory program. It is designed to help develop social capital in the regions where company employees work and live.

The finalists included 188 applications from residents of Norilsk, Taimyr and the Turukhansky district of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Monchegorsk, the Pechenga municipal district, the village of Lovozero in the Murmansk region, Chita and the Gazimuro-Zavodsky municipal district of the Trans-Baikal Territory. In 2025, the city of Borzya in Transbaikalia also joined the competition for the first time. 133 best projects from three regions will receive funding totaling 155 million rubles, including 75 initiatives from the Krasnoyarsk Territory.

Among the winners were projects aimed at working with children and adolescents. One of them is the “Inside Look: Workshop of Professions” project, which will introduce schoolchildren to different professions through podcasts. Projects by Taimyr residents are often aimed at preserving cultural identity. This is, for example, the project “The language of the ancestors is the future of Taimyr”, aimed at reviving the interest of the younger generation in the native languages ​​of indigenous peoples through the use of multimedia technologies.

“A separate area was the unification of the efforts of Norilsk Nickel corporate volunteers and applicant organizations, which resulted in 24 partnership initiatives. This alliance made it possible to effectively combine an understanding of the needs of local communities with the professional expertise and resources of volunteers,” the company notes.

A full list of winners with descriptions of innovative projects is available on the People of the Territory website.