The Okrug Governor’s press-service informs:

On the Day of the Family, Love and Loyalty Governor of Ugra Natalia Komarova invited   families of Ugra people and awarded the medals “For love and loyalty”.

Today Governor of Ugra Natalia Komarova invited to her residence representatives of family dynasties who have  lived in a happy marriage for many years. The head of the region congratulated them upon this remarkable event  and awarded the families from 9 municipalities with the medals “For love and loyalty”: Khanty-Mansiysk, Nizhnevartovsk, Nefteyugansk, Nyagan, Langepas, Surgut, Yugorsk, Urai and Khanty-Mansiysk District.

“I am pleased to host you in my house – the families with strong ties, traditions. You are an example for young couples who just begin their joint way. Kind relations in the family help every person in his life”, - emphasized Natalia Komarova. “You managed to overcome all the obstacles, and to preserve your love and loyalty. It is very difficult to preserve one’s family and to give it a possibility for the development, it is great and difficult job an d you coped with it. Let more such families be on the Earth, where people love each other”.

While tea drinking ceremony the guests shared secrets of their long marriage, talked with the head of the region about what to do to strengthen the family, discussed topics of spiritual and moral bringing up the youth.

That day in all the municipalities of the region there were held awarding ceremonies, actions, children’s holidays, festivals, concerts, contests, exhibitions, meetings, tours and sports competitions.

In Ugra over 250 ths. families live and there are about 350 ths. children  in these families.

July 8, 2010

The Okrug Governor’s press-service informs:

Today at the Government meeting it was adopted the Okrug target-oriented program “New School of Ugra” for 2010-2013.

The document was  made in compliance with the tasks of Russia’s President, RF Government and Governor of the Autonomous Okrug in the sphere of modernization of education and is a basic mechanism of the “Our new school” national educational initiative implementation in the region.

The program has a complex character and is aimed at increase of high-quality education availability in compliance with requirements of innovational development of the region’s economy, contemporary requirements of the society and every inhabitant of Ugra regardless from his/her social status and place of residence.

Making a presentation about the program Governor of Ugra Natalia Komarova said: “You should understand correctly the scopes of it – it is one of the most expensive programs which will require annually while there years about 10 % of the Ugra consolidate budget. The cost of the initiative amounts to about 55 billion rubles. The necessity of such program is justified by two serious  reasons as minimum. First of all, over 7 ths. criticisms about schools safety have been corrected yet. Secondly, the expected deficit of places at pre-school facilities – over 50 ths., at institutions of basic education – over 18 ths. In this situation there are no  alternatives for the complex program – the “New school of Ugra” program should be launched this year.

The program  goals are to increase of children’s coverage with pre-school and  extended education, to increase of teachers’ professional level and quality of pupils’ training, to equip Ugra schools with energy-effective equipment, to make the educational process  safe and interesting.