The documentary Down the Amur Tiger Trail has won the audience choice award and prizes in the categories Best Camera Work and Best Film about Love for Nature and the Homeland at the Meridian Nadezhdy (Meridian of Hope) festival. The national environmental festival, organised by the Union of Cinematographers of St Petersburg and the Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resources, took place on 17-21 April at several venues in St Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.

The film, made by Khabarovsk-based film studio Dalnevostochnaya Kinostudiya, features the efforts to preserve Amur tigers in their permanent habitat, the Lazo District in the Khabarovsk Territory, and an interview with a game management expert Alexander Batalov. The film also raises the issue of keeping the River Durmin clean: open-pit gold mining operations will soon be launched near the river.

Meridian Nadezhdy is the only nationwide environmental festival. It aims at joining the efforts of filmmakers and environmentalists in order to preserve the environment, promote environmental knowledge and raise awareness among young people. Films from almost all Russian regions are submitted to the competition every year. In the Year of the Environment, over 100 works were submitted, with 38 of them screened for the jury.