Defenders of Novosibirsk's Sosnovy Bor have launched a website about their fight for the environment.
Activists have launched a website dedicated to protecting Sosnovy Bor. Novosibirsk. They tell not only about the history of the park and its struggle, but also about the experience of other environmental campaigns in other regions of Russia.
Experience of other environmental campaigns
Residents' performances are cited as successful examples. Yekaterinburg against the construction of a church in the square near the Drama Theater, the struggle of residents Bashkortostan for the sacred mountain Kushtau and Muscovites - for Bitsevsky Forest.
The portal also published Sample appeals that can be sent to law enforcement agencies and officials: "It's not just a few people who are defending the forest. Every signature, appeal, and repost shows the authorities that thousands of people don't want the development."
Novosibirsk's Pine Forest: Development and Protest
Company Eltex, which produces telecommunications equipment, began cut down Sosnovy Bor in the Kalininsky District of Novosibirsk is being developed into a sports complex and a 12-story building with underground parking. Governor Andrey Travnikov United Russia approved the project at an investment council meeting at the end of 2025, but formal construction permits must be issued by the mayor's office—and they haven't been issued yet.
Local residents have already collected more than 7 thousand signatures against the project. They remind that the site is still concerns to urban forests.
CEO of Eltex Alexey Chernikov called the protesters "dog lovers and drug addicts." He justifies development of the company's important role in the country's information security under sanctions due to the invasion of Ukraine.
People held a major rally, after which the prosecutor's office announced That the logging was carried out in violation of the law. Work in the pine forest was temporarily suspended.
