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Residents of Russia will support the environmental campaign “Earth Hour”, designed to draw attention to the problem of wasteful resource use and global climate change: administrative buildings and architectural monuments will remain for an hour without lights, activists organize fire shows and a bike ride, and tourists in Russian hotels awaits the evening by candlelight. “Hour Earth “- an annual international event held by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). On the last Saturday of March at 20.30 local time, its participants turn off the lights for an hour and electrical appliances. Earth Hour will be held in Russia for the fifth time. In 2012 About 20 million Russian citizens out of about 50 took part in the campaign cities. This year, according to WWF, they are going to participate in the action about 70 cities and 20 million Russians. Hour of darkness On Saturday, the main architectural and artistic lighting will lose Attractions of St. Petersburg – Winter Palace, Palace Square and Peter and Paul Fortress. The same thing will happen with some buildings of the St. Petersburg State University, as well as with Trinity, Annunciation, Bolsheokhtinsky bridges and the bridge of Alexander Nevsky. In Voronezh for an hour will be the illumination of some monuments and buildings is disabled, including – governments of the region, city hall, city and regional legislative assemblies, Board of Leninsky and Zheleznodorozhny districts of the city, city Clinical Hospital No. 10 and the Yubileiny Ice Sports Palace. In addition, there will be no decorative lighting in several squares. In Novosibirsk, the city hall will not only be turned off architectural and decorative lighting, but also emergency lighting building. “The organizations of the city, in charge of the building administrative and cultural purposes, we offer support a useful initiative, “RIA Novosti reported representative of the city hall. At the same time, authorities say that the shutdown lighting is only possible if it does not affect ensuring the safety and livelihoods of people. The backlight will be disabled at the buildings of the administration of Barnaul. In enterprises with continuous technological process and in medical institutions The regional center of a power outage is not expected. Will not lines of external lighting are also de-energized so as not to provoke an accident on city highways, told RIA Novosti in MUP Barnaulgorsvet. The authorities of Buryatia disseminated information about “Earth Hour” so that citizens at will could in it to participate. Moreover, the administration centrally restrict electricity consumption is not planned because on Saturday it “and so reduced. “In Krasnoyarsk, where” Earth Hour “is held for the fifth year in a row, the backlight of the city administration building goes out and Administration of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, illumination of the Paraskeva chapel Fridays on Karaulnaya Gora and Ferris Wheel in Central Park named after M. Gorky. In Tomsk, the backlight will be turned off State University. There will be no backlight in Tyumen embankment and the bridge of lovers.
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