Published on: 2026-04-24
Source: Government of the Russian Federation – Government of the Russian Federation –
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Tatyana Golikova took part in the award ceremony for the first national prize “Big Family of Russia”.
Vice Premier Tatyana Golikova delivered a welcoming speech at the opening of the All-Russian conference “Demographic Breakthrough in Russia: Ways of Achievement,” and also participated in the awarding of the winners of the first national prize “Big Family of Russia.”
Opening the conference, Tatyana Golikova emphasized that making the large, traditional family a development trend for the country is a task set by the President of Russia, and the Government, state and public institutions, and the media must make maximum efforts to ensure that this is the case.
She added that with the participation of the country’s leading demographic scientific school, the D.I. Mendeleev Institute of Demographic Policy developed and the Government approved a Strategy for the implementation of family demographic policy and support for large families. The plan for its implementation begins specifically with measures to strengthen the family institution, protect and preserve, and promote traditional values and family way of life.
“By the order of the Head of State, key national projects include measures aimed at improving the quality of life of families and increasing the birth rate. We strive to respond to all requests from families, improve conditions in our work, and express gratitude to our families with children and parents,” said Tatyana Golikova.
She emphasized that since last year, mother-heroines have been equated in terms of support to Labor Heroes. They received the right to choose — to receive additional monthly payments or a package of benefits. Also, each mother-heroine will simultaneously receive, along with her pension, additional monthly support in the amount of 36,500 rubles.
In the length of service for parents with many children, the period of supervision of each child up to 1.5 years is now taken into account without limitation. Pensions have already been recalculated for more than 400 thousand parents.
In addition, the vice-premier added that for working parents with two or more children with low incomes, an annual family payment has been introduced – this affects more than 4 million families raising almost 11 million children.
Tatiana Golikova, the Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Central Federal District of Russia, Igor Shchyogolev, TASS General Director Andrei Kondrashov, and Roman Trotsenko, founder of the AZOT group of companies, awarded the winners of the first national prize “Big Family of Russia.” The prize is established for media representatives for the best coverage of family topics in the information space.
“Today we will announce for the first time the first winners of the national award ‘Big Family of Russia.’ Once again, I want to emphasize how pleased we are with the activity of journalists, the heartfelt warmth and sincerity with which journalists told about those families who live in the territory and their native regions. And this is very important to us because these stories, these little joys make up the history of our country,” said Tatyana Golikova.
In the nomination “Best Video Plot,” the winner was the television project “Stranger. Own. Native” by Irina Makarova (TV company “NNTV”, Nizhny Novgorod). Its heroes are Dina and Oleg Pavlov, who, having raised their biological daughter, became parents to six foster children.
The winner in the nomination “Best Publication in Social Media” was recognized as Galina Gurkina (TV channel “First Tula”, Tula) with a series of stories about a large family from the Tula region.
Evgenia Kochetkova (news portal “Izvestno.ru”, Ivanovo) with the special project “2024 with a Family”, which presents a series of interviews with large families, won in the category “Best Publication in an Online Edition.”
In the category “Best Print Publication,” the winner was the team of the magazine “Faces of Lipetsk Region” (Lipetsk) for the article “Four Reasons for Happiness,” which tells the story of a large family.
In the category “Best Photo” the victory was won by Pavel Kolyadin with the work “Big family – great happiness!” (Belgorod edition “BelPressa”).
Alexander Nikonorov (internet radio “Listen, Yugorsk”, Yugorsk) won in the nomination “Best Radio Broadcast.” The cycle of audio clips “In a Big Family” introduces listeners to the comprehensive support system for parents in the region: from childbirth conditions and payments to receiving housing.
A special award “For contribution to the promotion of the family topic” was given to Priest Fyodor Lukyanov – a cleric of the Moscow Diocese, chairman of the Patriarchal Commission on Family Issues, author of the project “Family – the foundation of peace.”
A total of more than 350 materials were submitted to the competition from regional and federal media and bloggers. The geography covers almost all regions of Russia – from Sakhalin to Kaliningrad.
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The organizers of the conference “Demographic Turning Point in Russia: Ways of Achievement” are the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation, the D.I. Mendeleev Institute for Demographic Policy, with the participation of the Federation Council and the Ministry of Labor and Social Protection of the Russian Federation.
The “Big Family of Russia” award was established by TASS and the D.I. Mendeleev Institute of Demographic Policy with the support of the Government of the Russian Federation, the plenipotentiary representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Central Federal District, and the State Corporation “AZOT.” It is intended to recognize journalists and bloggers whose publications strengthen the institution of large families and traditional family values in society.
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