The new season of the All-Russian Municipal Award IV "Service" has begun. Award IV has nine nominations. The organizers kept the key areas, and a new nomination became projects in the field of digitization - "Digital municipality - technologies for people". The beginning of the application campaign was announced following the results of the first meeting of the organizing committee of the All-Russian Urban Forum "A Small Motherland - Strength of Russia". The organizing committee was created by order of Russian President Vladimir Putin and is headed by Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Sergei Kirinko. He noted that this year the number of applications for participation in the award increased one and a half times. Applications must now be submitted through the personal account of the eirat.rf portal. The reception will continue until November 29, 2026. As the co-chair of VARMSU, Irina Guseva, pointed out, last season 34% of participants applied again - a year earlier the figure was 7%. According to her, municipalities are returning to Peres with new decisions.