The online election of the "People's Hero" began on the website of the International Award "My affectionate and necessary animal" on January 20, 2025.
In two and a half weeks, the nominees received more than 93,000 votes of support. According to the results of the first round, the finalists were determined, who will now compete for the title of "People's Hero" in two nominations: "Our brothers" - seven candidates, "Responsible for those ..." - five candidates. A new vote has been opened on the Award's website today.
The candidates in the "Our Brothers" nomination are Pobeda the mongrel from Samara, Bagheera the cat, Rona the canister dog from Kaliningrad, Irbis the Kamchatka Shepherd, Zair the service dog from Ussuriysk, Zakharya the hippopotamus from the Kazan Zoo and Tolik the service cat from Moscow.
The candidates in the "Responsible for Those" nomination are the Kovcheg Foundation from Stavropol, schoolgirl Varvara Guznayeva from the Lipetsk region, a team of residents of Kamchatka, volunteers, rescuers from the Ministry of Emergency Situations and the State Inspectorate for Small Vessels , as well as Roman Mirzhanov from St. Petersburg and the Zoobishkek rehabilitation center from Kyrgyzstan.
We would like to thank all the voting participants once again for the correctness and observance of the rules of the "Popular Vote". You can vote for your favorite character in each nomination only once a day during the entire voting period. We remind you once again that you can vote for the heroes in the nominations "Our brothers" and "Responsible for those ...".
Voting will end on February 26. Both selected winners of the "Popular Vote" will be invited to the award ceremony of the winners of the International Award "My affectionate and necessary animal", which will be held in Zelenogradsk in April.
We wish you all good luck!