10.11.2005
"Nash Bryansk"
In Sochi the Fifth International Children’s Arts Festival ‘Kinotavrik’ has completed its work. In this RussNeft has acted as a general sponsor.
The main participants of the Festival which is held under the support of the Cultural Ministry and Krasnodar’s region’s administration were creative teams of children whose age ranged from seven to sixteen years. Among them there were also children deprived of parental care and living in children’s homes. This year more than 700 hundred children participated in the Festival’s creative contests coming from more than 30 regions of Russia and fifty cities and towns of CIS. One of the Festival’s events for its smaller participants was master classes of honorable guests of ‘Kinotavrik’. Among them there were famous actors, workers of art and culture, masters of home and world’s cinematography.
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RussNeft is one of the first-rate oil and gas companies of this country which is constantly implementing social and charitable programs in many regions of Russia. One of its most impressive projects is the construction of a children’s health center equipped with advanced diagnostic facilities in the Bryansk region, donation of more than 100 ambulance cars to the Ulyanovsk oblast’s Health Ministry. In Udmurtia RussNeft has raised the Saint Regal Martyrs’ Church and is currently constructing a building for the oil faculty of the Udmurt University, sponsoring a junior sport motor club, helping village schools providing them with modern computers. In Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug where most of RussNeft’s entities are to be found social infrastructure enterprises are being built. In the town of Raduzhny there is an orthodox church named after St. John of Kronstadt and a mosque built by Russneft.
The geography of RussNeft’s charity is not restricted by the regions of its production operation. In the capital of the Chechenian Republic RussNeft has built an up-to-date lyceum-school for 540 pupils which became the first new school built in Chechnya for the last fifteen years. The company also supports the Bakulev Center of Cardiovascular Surgery, finances the Center’s ‘Touch the Heart of the Child’ humanitarian program. RussNeft traditionally supports the International Film Festival ‘All Together’, prestigious All-Russia Forum ‘Health of the Nation as the Basis of Russia’s Well-Being’, and a number of federal level social and cultural programs. The Children’s Arts Festival ‘Kinotavrik’ is one of them.