Free Knowledge Award

Free Knowledge Award was an award presented by Wikimedia RU, a Russian nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting encyclopedic knowledge.^[1] The prize was awarded to individuals or organizations who are not active participants in Wikimedia Foundation projects, but who have made a notable contribution to the goals of the Wikimedia movement: the dissemination of free knowledge. It has been awarded annually since 2014.^[2]

The Free Knowledge Award winners were determined in two stages. First, the wiki community nominated candidates and voted, which resulted in a short list. From this list, Wikimedia RU members selected 3-4 winners, taking into account the arguments presented. The winners were announced directly at the ceremony.

Winners

№	Years	Winners
1	2014	Ivan Zassoursky Internet Users Association[3] Ushinsky State Pedagogical Library Association of Honorary Citizens, Mentors and Talented Youth[2]
2	2015	CyberLeninka[4] Homeland heroes[5] Business Journal
3	2016	Oral History (foundation)[6] National Electronic Library[7] Yuri Metelkin
4	2017	Old Books Project[2] Клопс.Ru Andrei Galinichev and Dmitry Poslavsky[2]
5	2018	Digital Herbarium of Moscow University[8] Russian OpenStreetMap community[9] Kirill Vasiliev
6	2019	Free webinars "Direct-Academy" platform Aleksey Ryabinin Nekrasov Central Library
7	2020	News agency Bashinform Youth movement Selet[10] Leonid Shafirov[11]
8	2021	Vadim Riabitsev and Nina Sadykova Alexei Sidelnikov and Mikhail Trenikhin[12] Dmitry Lyovochkin Atlas of New Professions project team
9	2022	Olesya Nosova[13] Anatoly Gulyaev and Evgeny Raevsky[14] Andrei Kuznetsov
	2023	It was not conducted