In Irkutsk Region, a business project contest was summed up, where participants presented ideas in social services, innovation, culture, construction, manufacturing and IT. First place went to Anastasia Berestennikova with Family Studio, second to Evgenia and Alexey Dukhov with the anti cafe Hobbichya Nora, third to Olga Toloknova and Natalia Shulga with the project Fragrant Pepper. Winners received diplomas and prizes to implement their ideas.

The priority areas of the business projects were social services and the service sector, innovative commercial activity, culturally oriented entrepreneurship, construction and development of housing and communal services, production technologies, as well as information technologies, communications, and telecommunications.
Based on the results of the presentations, the expert commission determined the winners of the competition. Third place went to Olga Toloknova and Natalia Shulga with the project “Fragrant Pepper,” which provides for the creation of a website uniting volunteer movements in Irkutsk. Second place was awarded to Evgenia and Alexey Dukhov with the anti-café project “Hobbit Hole” in Angarsk. First place went to Anastasia Berestennikova with the photo studio project “Family Studio.”
The competition winners were awarded diplomas and prizes necessary for implementing the projects: 70,000 rubles for first place, 60,000 rubles for second place, and 50,000 rubles for third place.
Based on materials from the press service of the Department for Youth Policy of the Irkutsk Region