[2] In 1993, he was the initiator and leader of the Baikal Ecological Wave projects aimed at environmental education, informing, publishing the Volna periodical magazine and sustainable development.
Through the award, she supported 9 projects of social entrepreneurship of Baikalsk residents in 2009, when the Baikal Pulp and Paper Plant was closed for the first time.
Rikhvanova organized demonstrations, petitions and meetings, all aimed at bringing an end to the mill's pollution of Baikal.
Last year, Russian authorities ordered the Baikalsk plant to switch to a closed water treatment system that eliminated any wastewater discharge into the lake.
In 2008, a group of Russian youths attacked a tent camp Rikhvanova had organized to protest a proposed uranium enrichment center in Angarsk, about 50 miles west of Baikal.