
On April 12, 1919, the first clean-up took place, in which only 15 people took part, but during the night they managed to repair three locomotives. After that, the clean-up took acquired a wide scope: they played an important role in the fight against fuel starvation, in restoring transport, helping families during the war. Participation in clean-up took was an important public affair: students, schoolchildren and government employees put yards, streets, playgrounds in order. The tradition of clean-up took continues today.Employees of the probation service of the city of Petropavlovsk and the Department of the PES for North Kazakhstan Region again took an active part in the clean-up within the framework of the announced ecological month for the improvement and landscaping of the city.
In total, more than 1,000 people representing about 100 enterprises, organizations, government agencies, departments and national companies participated in the citywide clean-up.
In the course of the work carried out, employees of the probation service and the Department of PES for North Kazakhstan Region cleaned the territory along Partizanskaya Street. In parallel, environmental actions were carried out to clean up other important objects of the city. Armed with brooms and shovels, the employees collected about 10 bags of synthetic waste and 10 bags of fallen leaves and other withered plants.