The works were performed in a wide variety of techniques: graphics, watercolors, appliqués, gouache, oil paints, leather goods.
The competition was held in five categories:
- “A bright future, despite Chernobyl”;
- “Young generation: remember, learn, revive / Chernobyl: past, present, future”;
- “Chernobyl: century 21 / Chernobyl is a wound on the heart of Europe”;
- “Chernobyl - Belarusian pain”;
- "Living with radiation/Chernobyl in my life."
Initially, the jury planned to select only 15 winning works - three for each nomination. But so many original drawings that skillfully revealed the Chernobyl theme were sent to the competition that the jury decided to increase the number of prizes to 41.
First place in the category "A bright future, despite Chernobyl":
Voitko Alexandra, 14 years old, Novy Dvor village, Pinsk district, Brest region
Bykovsky Denis, 13 years old, Mikashevichi, Brest region
First place in the nomination “Young generation: remember, learn, revive / Chernobyl: past, present, future”:
Dmitrachkov Pavel, 13 years old, Minsk
First place in the category “Chernobyl: century 21/Chernobyl is a wound on the heart of Europe”:
Beketo Galina, 15 years old, Uzda, Minsk region
Marina Shankova, 15 years old, Murinbor village, Kostyukovichi district, Mogilev region
First place in the category "Chernobyl - Belarusian pain":
Danilenko Veronica, 14 years old, Slavgorod, Mogilev region
Elena Kozenko, 15 years old, Mozyr, Gomel region
Hunchback Valeria, 15 years old, Volkovysk, Grodno region
First place in the category "Living with radiation/Chernobyl in my life":
Kalenik Marya, 11 years old, Porechye village, Grodno district
The competition was organized by the branch of the "Belarusian Branch of the Russian-Belarusian Information Center on the Problems of the Consequences of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Disaster" (BORBITS) of the RNIUP "Institute of Radiology" of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Belarus on behalf of the Department for Elimination of the Consequences of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Disaster of the Ministry of Emergency Situations.
On February 16, 2010, the winners and runners-up of the competition gathered in BORBITS (Minsk) for the award ceremony. Diplomas and incentive awards were provided to the winners by the Department, the Belarusian Union of Artists, Beltelecom, Wild Nature magazine, ASB Belarusbank and BORBITZ.
All winning works will be included in the international exhibition “Reviving the Damaged Land Together,” which will be shown in the countries of the European Union on the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster.
Check out the winners' drawings >>>
April 26 is the Day of Remembrance for those killed in radiation accidents and disasters. This year marks 33 years since the Chernobyl disaster - the largest in the history of nuclear energy in the world. A whole generation has grown up without this terrible tragedy, but on this day we traditionally remember Chernobyl. After all, only by remembering the mistakes of the past can we hope not to repeat them in the future.
In 1986, an explosion occurred at Chernobyl reactor No. 4, and several hundred workers and firefighters tried to put out the fire, which burned for 10 days. The world was enveloped in a cloud of radiation. About 50 station employees were killed and hundreds of rescuers were injured. It is still difficult to determine the scale of the disaster and its impact on people’s health - only from 4 to 200 thousand people died from cancer that developed as a result of the received dose of radiation. Pripyat and the surrounding areas will remain unsafe for human habitation for several centuries.
1. This 1986 aerial photo of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Chernobyl, Ukraine, shows the damage from the explosion and fire of reactor No. 4 on April 26, 1986. As a result of the explosion and fire that followed it, a huge amount of radioactive substances was released into the atmosphere. Ten years after the world's worst nuclear disaster, the power plant continued to operate due to severe power shortages in Ukraine. The final shutdown of the power plant occurred only in 2000. (AP Photo/Volodymyr Repik) 
2. On October 11, 1991, when the speed of turbogenerator No. 4 of the second power unit was reduced for its subsequent shutdown and removal of the SPP-44 steam separator-superheater for repair, an accident and fire occurred. This photo, taken during a journalists' visit to the plant on October 13, 1991, shows part of the collapsed roof of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, destroyed by fire. (AP Photo/Efrm Lucasky) 
3. Aerial view of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, after the largest nuclear disaster in human history. The photo was taken three days after the explosion at the nuclear power plant in 1986. In front of the chimney is the destroyed 4th reactor. (AP Photo) 
4. Photo from the February issue of the magazine “Soviet Life”: the main hall of the 1st power unit of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on April 29, 1986 in Chernobyl (Ukraine). Soviet Union admitted that there was an accident at the power plant, but did not provide additional information. (AP Photo) 
5. A Swedish farmer removes straw contaminated by radiation a few months after the Chernobyl explosion in June 1986. (STF/AFP/Getty Images) 
6. Soviet medical worker examines an unknown child who was evacuated from the nuclear disaster zone to the Kopelovo state farm near Kiev on May 11, 1986. The photo was taken during a trip organized by Soviet authorities to show how they deal with the accident. (AP Photo/Boris Yurchenko) 
7. Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev (center) and his wife Raisa Gorbacheva during a conversation with the management of the nuclear power plant on February 23, 1989. This was the first visit of the Soviet leader to the station since the accident in April 1986. (AFP PHOTO/TASS) 
8. Kiev residents queue for forms before being tested for radiation contamination after the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, in Kyiv on May 9, 1986. (AP Photo/Boris Yurchenko) 
9. A boy reads a notice on the closed gate of a playground in Wiesbaden on May 5, 1986, which reads: “This playground is temporarily closed.” A week after the Chernobyl nuclear reactor explosion on April 26, 1986, the Wiesbaden municipal council closed all playgrounds after detecting radioactivity levels of 124 to 280 becquerels. (AP Photo/Frank Rumpenhorst) 
10. One of the engineers who worked at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant undergoes a medical examination at the Lesnaya Polyana sanatorium on May 15, 1986, a few weeks after the explosion. (STF/AFP/Getty Images) 
11. Environmental activists mark railway cars containing radiation-contaminated dry whey. Photo taken in Bremen, northern Germany on February 6, 1987. The serum, which was delivered to Bremen for onward transport to Egypt, was produced after the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident and was contaminated by radioactive fallout. (AP Photo/Peter Meyer) 
12. A slaughterhouse worker places fitness stamps on cow carcasses in Frankfurt am Main, West Germany, May 12, 1986. According to the decision of the Minister of Social Affairs of the federal state of Hesse, after the Chernobyl explosion, all meat began to be subject to radiation control. (AP Photo/Kurt Strumpf/stf) 
13. Archival photo from April 14, 1998. Workers at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant walk past the control panel of the destroyed 4th power unit of the station. On April 26, 2006, Ukraine celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl accident, which affected the lives of millions of people, required astronomical costs from international funds and became an ominous symbol of the dangers of nuclear energy. (AFP PHOTO/GENIA SAVILOV) 
14. In the photo, which was taken on April 14, 1998, you can see the control panel of the 4th power unit of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. (AFP PHOTO/GENIA SAVILOV) 
15. Workers who took part in the construction of the cement sarcophagus covering the Chernobyl reactor, in a memorable photo from 1986 next to the unfinished construction site. According to the Chernobyl Union of Ukraine, thousands of people who took part in the liquidation of the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster died from the consequences of radiation contamination, which they suffered during their work. (AP Photo/Volodymyr Repik) 
16. High-voltage towers near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on June 20, 2000 in Chernobyl. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky) 
17. Duty operator nuclear reactor recording control readings at the site of the only operating reactor No. 3, on Tuesday, June 20, 2000. Andrei Shauman angrily pointed at a switch hidden under a sealed metal cover on the control panel of the reactor at Chernobyl, a nuclear power plant whose name has become synonymous with nuclear disaster. “This is the same switch with which you can turn off the reactor. For $2,000, I’ll let anyone push that button when the time comes,” Schauman, acting chief engineer, said at the time. When that time came on December 15, 2000, environmental activists, governments and simple people all over the world breathed a sigh of relief. However, for the 5,800 workers at Chernobyl, it was a day of mourning. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
18. 17-year-old Oksana Gaibon (right) and 15-year-old Alla Kozimerka, victims of the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, are treated with infrared rays at the Tarara Children's Hospital in the capital of Cuba. Oksana and Alla, like hundreds of other Russian and Ukrainian teenagers who received a dose of radiation, were treated for free in Cuba as part of a humanitarian project. (ADALBERTO ROQUE/AFP)
19. Photo dated April 18, 2006. A child during treatment at the Center for Pediatric Oncology and Hematology, which was built in Minsk after the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. On the eve of the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, representatives of the Red Cross reported that they were faced with a lack of funds to further assist the victims of the Chernobyl accident. (VIKTOR DRACHEV/AFP/Getty Images) 
20. View of the city of Pripyat and the fourth reactor of Chernobyl on December 15, 2000 on the day of the complete shutdown of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. (Photo by Yuri Kozyrev/Newsmakers) 
21. A Ferris wheel and a carousel in a deserted amusement park in the ghost town of Pripyat next to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on May 26, 2003. The population of Pripyat, which in 1986 was 45,000 people, was completely evacuated within the first three days after the explosion of the 4th reactor No. 4. The explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant occurred at 1:23 a.m. on April 26, 1986. The resulting radioactive cloud damaged much of Europe. According to various estimates, from 15 to 30 thousand people subsequently died as a result of radiation exposure. Over 2.5 million residents of Ukraine suffer from diseases acquired as a result of radiation, and about 80 thousand of them receive benefits. (AFP PHOTO/ SERGEI SUPINSKY) 
22. In the photo from May 26, 2003: an abandoned amusement park in the city of Pripyat, which is located next to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. (AFP PHOTO/ SERGEI SUPINSKY) 
23. In the photo from May 26, 2003: gas masks on the floor of a classroom in one of the schools in the ghost town of Pripyat, which is located near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. (AFP PHOTO/ SERGEI SUPINSKY) 
24. In the photo from May 26, 2003: a TV case in a hotel room in the city of Pripyat, which is located near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. (AFP PHOTO/ SERGEI SUPINSKY) 
25. View of the ghost town of Pripyat next to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. (AFP PHOTO/ SERGEI SUPINSKY) 
26. Photo from January 25, 2006: an abandoned classroom in one of the schools in the deserted city of Pripyat near Chernobyl, Ukraine. Pripyat and the surrounding areas will remain unsafe for human habitation for several centuries. Scientists estimate that it will take about 900 years for the most dangerous radioactive elements to completely decompose. (Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images) 
27. Textbooks and notebooks on the floor of one of the schools in the ghost town of Pripyat on January 25, 2006. (Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images) 
28. Toys and gas mask in the dust in the former primary school abandoned city of Pripyat on January 25, 2006. (Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images) 
29. In the photo January 25, 2006: abandoned gym one of the schools in the deserted city of Pripyat. (Photo by Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images) 
30. What remains of the school gym in the abandoned city of Pripyat. January 25, 2006. (Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images) 
31. A resident of the Belarusian village of Novoselki, located just outside the 30-kilometer exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, in a photo taken on April 7, 2006. (AFP PHOTO / VIKTOR DRACHEV) 
32. A woman with piglets in the deserted Belarusian village of Tulgovichi, 370 km southeast of Minsk, April 7, 2006. This village is located within the 30-kilometer zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. (AFP PHOTO / VIKTOR DRACHEV) 
33. On April 6, 2006, an employee of the Belarusian radiation-ecological reserve measures the level of radiation in the Belarusian village of Vorotets, which is located within the 30-kilometer zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. (VIKTOR DRACHEV/AFP/Getty Images) 
34. Residents of the village of Ilintsy in the closed zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, about 100 km from Kyiv, pass by rescuers from the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Ukraine who are rehearsing before a concert on April 5, 2006. Rescuers organized an amateur concert on the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster for more than three hundred people (mostly elderly people) who returned to live illegally in villages located in the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. (SERGEI SUPINSKY/AFP/Getty Images) 
35. The remaining residents of the abandoned Belarusian village of Tulgovichi, located in the 30-kilometer exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, celebrate on April 7, 2006 Orthodox holiday Annunciation of the Virgin Mary. Before the accident, about 2,000 people lived in the village, but now only eight remain. (AFP PHOTO / VIKTOR DRACHEV) 
38. April 12, 2006, workers sweep away radioactive dust in front of the sarcophagus covering the damaged 4th reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Because of high level radiation teams only work for a few minutes. (GENIA SAVILOV/AFP/Getty Images) Young artists from different parts of the country sent about a thousand drawings. In their works, the guys reflected the beauty of their native land, the pain of Chernobyl, the courage of the Belarusian people and faith in the Revival of our country. The competition is a unique opportunity to look at the problem of the Chernobyl disaster through the eyes of children and see what they see. Many small artists live in small towns and villages in areas contaminated with radionuclides - the drawings of these guys are distinguished by their special realism.
The works were performed in a wide variety of techniques: graphics, watercolors, appliqués, gouache, oil paints, leather goods.
The competition was held in five categories:
- “A bright future, despite Chernobyl”;
- “Young generation: remember, learn, revive / Chernobyl: past, present, future”;
- “Chernobyl: century 21 / Chernobyl is a wound on the heart of Europe”;
- “Chernobyl - Belarusian pain”;
- "Living with radiation/Chernobyl in my life."
Initially, the jury planned to select only 15 winning works - three for each nomination. But so many original drawings that skillfully revealed the Chernobyl theme were sent to the competition that the jury decided to increase the number of prizes to 41.
First place in the category "A bright future, despite Chernobyl":
Voitko Alexandra, 14 years old, Novy Dvor village, Pinsk district, Brest region
Bykovsky Denis, 13 years old, Mikashevichi, Brest region
First place in the category “Young generation: remember, learn, revive / Chernobyl: past, present, future”:
Dmitrachkov Pavel, 13 years old, Minsk
First place in the category “Chernobyl: century 21/Chernobyl is a wound on the heart of Europe”: 
Beketo Galina, 15 years old, Uzda, Minsk region
Marina Shankova, 15 years old, Murinbor village, Kostyukovichi district, Mogilev region
First place in the category "Chernobyl - Belarusian pain":
Danilenko Veronica, 14 years old, Slavgorod, Mogilev region
Elena Kozenko, 15 years old, Mozyr, Gomel region 
Hunchback Valeria, 15 years old, Volkovysk, Grodno region
First place in the category "Living with radiation/Chernobyl in my life":
Kalenik Marya, 11 years old, Porechye village, Grodno district
The competition was organized by the branch of the "Belarusian Branch of the Russian-Belarusian Information Center on the Problems of the Consequences of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Disaster" (BORBITS) of the RNIUP "Institute of Radiology" of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Belarus on behalf of the Department for Elimination of the Consequences of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Disaster of the Ministry of Emergency Situations.
On February 16, 2010, the winners and runners-up of the competition gathered in BORBITS (Minsk) for the award ceremony. Diplomas and incentive awards were provided to the winners by the Department, the Belarusian Union of Artists, Beltelecom, Wild Nature magazine, ASB Belarusbank and BORBITZ.
All winning works will be included in the international exhibition “Reviving the Damaged Land Together,” which will be shown in the countries of the European Union on the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster.
Brief information about the work with children in the city of Bronnitsy
Our organization (Bronnitsa city public organization of disabled people "Soyuz-Chernobyl") has been working with children for 7-8 years. It all started with providing simple information about the events that occurred in the city of nuclear power workers Chernobyl. Unfortunately, this event is very the residents themselves knew little and their children knew practically nothing, although from the very beginning of the events, i.e. from April 26, 1986 officers of military unit 63539 and up to liquidation of the military group in Chernobyl took a direct part in eliminating the consequences of the Chernobyl accident.
The work began with conducting lessons on courage on Chernobyl topics at school No. 2. This work was supported from the very beginning by the school director Natalya Sergeevna Solovyeva. Later, the idea arose to transfer the acquired information and knowledge to paper. Thus was born the first school children's drawing competition on Chernobyl themes. Subsequently, this topic was developed and grew from a school competition into a city interschool, into a regional intercity (Bronnitsy and Elektrogorsk, Moscow region) and in 2010 we held an exhibition-competition of children's drawings in the Moscow region on the topic: “Chernobyl through the eyes of children." The results of the regional competition were summed up, the results were sent to the Minister of Education of the Moscow Region Antonova L.N. All competitions and exhibitions of children's works, except for the intercity competition, were held at the personal expense of Chernobyl victims. In the process of carrying out all this work, active, inquisitive, talented children of three secondary schools in the city, the School of Art, and the House of Children's Creativity.
The children of the Children's Art Center took a more active position. It was proposed to hold an exhibition of children's crafts. Such an exhibition was held at the City Veterans Council. The authors of the best crafts were awarded with valuable gifts.
The Chernobyl city organization decided to buy back all the children’s handicrafts. Which is what was done. In the future, the children of the Children's Art Center have always been active participation in competitions artistic works, an exhibition of handicrafts was organized for them. These works were sold during the exhibition; the proceeds were used to restore and expand the range of ornamental materials.
Our organization received active assistance from teachers of fine arts and drawing:
1. School No. 1 – Murashova Margarita Aleksandrovna;
2. School No. 2 – Kirsanova Olga Nikolaevna;
3. School No. 3 – Marina Vasilievna Mamontova;
4. School of Arts - Borisova Vlada Dmitrievna;
5. House of Children's Creativity - Oksana Yurievna Nosova.
To mark the anniversary - the 25th anniversary of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, we intend to hold an exhibition children's drawings "Chernobyl through the eyes of children" in the Regional House of Arts government of the Moscow region, as well as the regional children's art competition.
In general, our press – Bronnitsky News – will tell you the best about children’s competitions.
The very first participants in the children's drawing competition
"The Chernobyl accident is the largest man-made disaster of the twentieth century"
Alimuradova Elmira
Afanasyeva Daria
Botnar Vika
Valeeva Olga
Vishnevsky Vladislav
Volchkova Vika
Grishina Margarita
Gusarova Vika
Derichev Oleg
Ivanov Pavel
Karpovich Denis
Kirsanova Angelina
Kozlova Alena
Maltseva Kristina
Matveev Ruslan
Mymrikova Olesya
Nazarova Vika
Nikolaychuk Katya
Pichugina Ksenia
Podlesnaya Lena
Skachkov Alexey
Smirnova Olga
Soloshenko Zhenya
Finogenov Dima
Sharipova Ira
Shish Katya
Video material about the first children's drawing competition is located
on the "Our Video" page to watch press here
Children's drawing competition between school students
Elektrogorsk and Bronnitsy
April 24, 2009
in the city of Bronnitsy
A children's drawing competition "Chernobyl through the eyes of children" was organized and held. Students from two schools in the Moscow region took part in the competition. The Bronnitsky News newspaper writes about this competition.
Exhibition of drawings by children from Bronnitsy and Elektrogorsk
Our guests, leaders and organizers of the intercity children's drawing competition "Chernobyl through the eyes of children"th"
Kirsanova Olga Nikolaevna with her students - participants in the children's drawing competition
Winners of the children's drawing competition "Chernobyl through the eyes of children" in the city of Elektrogorsk
Video material from Bronnitsky TV about the intercity children's drawing competition on the theme of the Chernobyl disaster is located on the "Our Video" page to watch
How children see the tragedy at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and how members of the TUT.BY forum helped the Brest independent theater "Kryly Khalopa" prepare the script for a new play, we learned at the exhibition of children's drawings "Chernobyl".
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A child's view of the Chernobyl tragedy was presented to the Brest public on July 1 in the hall of the Hermitage Hotel. In total, over 50 works were displayed on the stands. Most of them are the result of the painstaking work of young Brest artists. Several more paintings were submitted to the competition by patients of the Minsk psychoneurological dispensary.
In order to learn more about the artistic and theatrical project on the theme of Chernobyl, TUT.BY visited the exhibition hall together with one of the organizers of the cultural initiative and part-time actor of the Brest independent alternative theater "Wings of Khalopa" Sergei Gaiko.
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As the young man explained, the exhibition of children's drawings is an important part of the play "Chernobyl", which the Brest alternative theater team is working on. The production is based on materials from two expeditions to the Belarusian part of the resettlement zone and the Polesie Radiation Ecological Reserve, interviews with people evacuated after the Chernobyl accident and documents related to its consequences. In addition, correspondence between people on forums was also used.
"Some fragments were borrowed from the TUT.BY forum. These messages show how modern people they discuss this topic without cuts,” the interlocutor added.
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The performance ends with a video sequence with photographs of the past, present and future of the nuclear power plant.
“Children’s works are a kind of illustration of the future,” explained Sergei Gaiko.
According to Sergei, the children's works submitted as part of the competition made a strong impression on the organizers and members of the jury, which included cultural figures of the city.
“I was most struck by the work that depicts people in a circle of fire. It’s hard to say what the child was thinking about when he painted it, but I see people who, once exposed to radiation, can no longer step beyond this “fire” into the blue space", - he explained.
According to the organizers, the exhibition of children's drawings "Chernobyl" will run at the Hermitage Hotel for about three weeks, that is, until July 22. But it’s difficult to say when the premiere of the new performance of the theater “Wings of Halop” will take place.
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As Sergei Gaiko reported, a draft version of the production has already been prepared, which was presented to foreign colleagues at the International Women's Theater Festival in Denmark. At this stage, the theater team continues to work on the performance.
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