SGMK’s personnel department organized the environmental initiative, drawing over 20 volunteers: employees with their partners and children. The group cheerfully and amicably made their way to the village of Sharap in the Novokuznetsk district, where the local forestry department had identified a suitable area for reforestation.
After a short briefing and armed with basic tools—Kolesov's swords, specialized shovels for manual tree planting, and buckets filled with young trees—the volunteers set to work. A few hours of active work transformed 1.5 hectares of brown earth into a vibrant green space. SGMK employees, along with their families and friends, planted over 7,000 pine saplings. Years will pass, and perhaps these same volunteers will return to this pine forest with their already grown-up children, who on Saturday, June 3rd, worked alongside them with equal enthusiasm.
“This was my first tree-planting event with SGMK, but in general, we've planted a lot of seedlings, I think it's over three hundred now,” Anastasia Glushakova, Business Analyst, shared. “I worked with my son Savely, who's four. He loved it, especially digging the holes for the trees.”
“My five-year-old daughter, Nastenka, and I planted at least 200 pine trees,” Alyona Heilman, Specialist at the Personnel Administration Center of the Personnel Directorate, said. “It's a great event, my daughter is delighted, the only thing that bothers her is the flies (laughs)...”
“I am pleased to see our entire Ecology and Sustainable Development team gathered today; ours is the largest team. I thank the organizers, as well as the Novokuznetsk Forestry Department, for the opportunity to contribute to the restoration of Novokuznetsk's green belt. I hope that such events will become a good tradition at SGMK, with our volunteer numbers growing with each event,” Tatyana Romanovskaya, Director for Ecology and Sustainable Development at SGMK, summed up.