  Support for
Veterans of War and Labour, the Disabled and Socially Deprived
People
Oilmen, who are former front-line soldiers, veterans of the Great
Patriotic War and the labour front receive special attention and care from the
Company. Every year, on Victory Day’s eve they receive gifts and monetary
allowances. The Company also supports families of the military men who were
killed in the local military conflicts.
OAO LUKOIL allocated funds for restoration of the monuments to
soldiers who died during the Great Patriotic War in different Russian cities,
restoration of the memorial on Mamai’s burial mound in Volgograd, and the
monument to the 28 Panfilov Heroes in Nelyudovo village of Moscow
Oblast
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Program
for Revival of Trades of the Indigenous
People
OOO LUKOIL PERM has for several years been implementing a number
of programs aimed at supporting trades of small nations of the Kama Region.
Today Perm Krai is one of Russia’s few regions where so many
various handicrafts are on display, most of which are relics of the past. Each
year, the greatest achievements of this cooperation are demonstrated at an
interregional fair of folk crafts and applied arts, whose general partner is OOO
LUKOIL-PERM.
 In 2010, the 9th Interregional Festival of
Historical Settlements of the Kama Region was held in Kudymkar. Representatives
of more than 20 territories of Perm Krai took part in the festival. Each
territory was able to demonstrate its rich culture, history and actively
developing local trades in a bright and colorful way.
For example, in the recent years the Company has helped restore
the stone-cutting trade in the Ordinsk Children’s School of National Artistic
Trades, unique production of tiles to adorn stoves in Usolye, decoration of toys
and cooperage in Obvinsk, the Ilyinka District, and the artistic woodworking in
Cherdyn.
Thanks to an OOO LUKOIL-PERM grant as part of the Social and
Cultural Projects Contest, the “Govorlivskoye Gulbishche” Inter-Municipal
Festival was held in 2011
in the Krasnovishersk District, which gave a new impetus
to the development of handicrafts, applied arts and the revival of ethnic
culture. In the Usolsk District the grant funds made it possible to set up an
experimental art workshop, where teenagers learn how to handle the naturally
occurring material sylvinite. The implementation of yet another winning project
has created a unique museum in the Bardymsk District, “the Tatar Cabin,” which
became a popular tourist site. The
museum serves as the venue for master classes teaching people how to produce
national souvenirs; a collection of antique embroidered towels is on
display.
The enterprise is actively supporting the Krai’s children’s
festival of small-nation trades entitled “Selenitic Box” in Ashap settlement of
the Orda District. Every year children from all the nooks of the Krai not only
demonstrate their artistic works here, but also learn to work with selenite,
unique stone. There are only two places in the world where selenite is
produced. One of them is the Orda District. The stone-cutting school of the
district is famous all over the world and is one of the few schools that were
able to preserve their traditions in today’s Russia.
In addition, organizational and financial support is provided to
the Krai Honey Festival, the “Selenitic Box” Open Children’s Folk Crafts
Festival of Perm Krai, the Interregional Festival “Yelovskaya Rybka”, and the
“Savior of the Bread Feast Day”.
Support for
the Far North Nations
The specifics of the Company’s operations in Siberia and the Far North are that its enterprises may
significantly affect the life of the indigenous people. As oil and gas
production rate is ever growing, active subsurface use in the regions affects
such vital local trades as reindeer breeding, fishing and hunting. Changes in
the traditional lifestyle of the indigenous people create social and economic
challenges. OAO LUKOIL’s position is that of gradual transition from charity to
predominantly economic partnership mechanisms.
 The Company
develops and implements special programs to cooperate with owners of communal
family land. Thus, in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, in order to support and
develop the traditional lifestyle of the Khantys, Mansis, Nenets and Sekulps,
OOO LUKOIL-West Siberia makes agreements for social and economic development of
the regions and areas inhabited by the indigenous people. Issues of better
interaction between the Company and the indigenous people are discussed at
meetings of the management with representatives of the Assembly of the
indigenous people of the North, heads of municipalities and directly with the
indigenous people. The company has
established active partnerships with the “Save Yugra” and “Yamal for
Descendants” public organizations. In Yugra, LUKOIL-West Siberia operates in 34
territories of traditional nature management, where 164 families reside.
LUKOIL-West Siberia offers financial assistance to each family member, provides
gasoline, construction materials, boats with engines, and snowmobiles. Oilmen
finance the construction and renovation of residential facilities in national
villages and places of their traditional place of inhabitance and also provide
apartments in the cities.
Young members of the indigenous peoples are not left out: in the
vicinity of the Russkinskaya village the Company has started building
“Kar-Tokhi”, a children's ethnic camp. Children from the Russkinskaya boarding
school can learn in action the basics of hunting, deer herding and fishing,
familiarize themselves with the traditional handicraft and learn to drive a
snowmobile.
An important task, as the West Siberian oilmen see it, is the
preservation of the indigenous peoples’ identity, language and culture. Together
with the municipal entities, the company is financing the construction of
educational institutions, helps develop the infrastructure around the places of
religious worship and celebrates national holidays.
In the Nenets Autonomous Okrug the Company is also implementing
social and charitable projects designed to improve the lives of the indigenous
peoples, the Nenets and the Komi. Thanks to the Agreement on Cooperation between
the NAO municipal authority and OAO LUKOIL the indigenous people of the Okrug
regularly receive social support. In particular, in 2011 as part of the above
Agreement, the following family-tribal communities: Ilebts, Neruta, Tabseda,
Opseda, Wark, Vy Tu, Yalumd, as well as the Yasavey Association of the Nenets
People received financial aid.
Since 2008, LUKOIL-Komi in cooperation with the administration of
the NAO, Yasavey social movement has been implementing the “Red Rawhide”
project. As part of the project, the indigenous population of the North have
health screenings, after which the doctors can issue appointment cards to
Naryan-Mar hospitals, if needed. Dental care is most wanted, so the medical unit
has a mobile dental office. In addition, under the “Red Rawhide” project, first
aid courses and improved individual first-aid kit training is
provided.
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