Company’s
Key Priorities in Promotion of Physical Training and Sports:
Support
of the Russian sport has been one of the most important aspects of OAO LUKOIL’s
social policy for years. The Company’s key priorities in promotion of physical
training and sports include:
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offer
assistance to professional sport teams in Russia, national federations and the
national Olympic movement;
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promote
sports and healthy lifestyles amongst the Company’s employees and their
families, and promote participant sports;
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promote
development of children’s sports in Russia.
 Spartak-Moscow Football Club
LUKOIL
is the title sponsor of one of the most popular Russian football clubs. The team
is a 12-time champion of the Soviet Union and a 9-time champion of Russia.
LUKOIL
became the team’s sponsor in 2000. Since then, Spartak won the Russian
Championship twice (in 2000 and 2001), four times it came in second in the
national championships (2005, 2006, 2007, and 2009) and once won the bronze
medal of the national championship (2002). In 2003 the team won the Cup of
Russia, and in 2006 advanced to the finals of this tournament. Spartak is a
two-time winner of the Champions of the Commonwealth of Independent States Cup
(2000 and 2001).
There
is also a Spartak children’s sports school run under the auspices of the club
with about 600 young student-athletes.
Official
website: http://rus.spartak.com
Cross Country Ski Federation of
Russia
 Russia is traditionally viewed as one of the world's strongest
competitors in the winter sports where Russian athletes have consistently won
many of the most prestigious prizes.
Since
1998 LUKOIL has supported the men’s national team, and starting in 2006 the
Company has been the title sponsor of the Cross Country Ski Federation of Russia
and consequently of the men's and women's national teams.
Russian
skiers did well at the Olympics in Nagano, Salt Lake City and Turin. In 2010
the Russian team came in second at the World Cup.
Official
website http://www.flgr.ru
Lukoil Racing
Team
LUKOIL Racing Team is the leader of the national racing sport. Ten
years of motor racing events brought the company over 60 highest Russian and
European titles. There is no other racing team in the history of the USSR or
Russia that has managed to achieve such results.
In
2010 the team’s drivers competed in 17 countries, winning 4 gold medals, 2
silvers and 2 bronzes. The team became the closed-circuit race champion of
Russia, and came in second and third in the Russian go kart
championship.
Sergey
Afanasyev, one of the team’s racers, who won the bronze of the FIA Formula 2
Championship, was awarded a super license and was authorized to take part in
Formula 1. Afanasyev’s success was aided by the team’s international crew
comprised of Patrik Flodin and Goran Bergsten, who became P-WRC Rally
Vice-Champions of the World and came in third in the Championship of Russia, and
the crew of Marco Tempestini and Dorin Pulpea, who won the Eastern European
Rally Cup.
The
team's international program (LUKOIL Drivers Support Program) continued to be
represented by Daniil Kvyat and Alexey Dudukalo. During his first year in the
BMW Formula Europe Cup, D. Kvyat won two races and eventually ranked 10th
amongst the world’s top 20 racers in this class. A. Dudukalo, multiple champion
of Russia, came in fifth in the SEAT Leon European Cup, thus sealing his victory
and making his way to the awards platform.
Egor
Stupenkov and Matvey Maslov, racers of the children and youth sports school
"LUKOIL Racing Team", won the go kart championship of Russia in their
categories, with the latter winning the championship of Moscow as
well.
Official
website: http://racing.lukoil.ru/
Zarya Kaspiya Team Handball
Club, Astrakhan
The Zarya Kaspiya Team Handball Club is one of the strongest
Russian handball teams. During the period of LUKOIL’s sponsorship the club
became a multiple silver (2001-2008) and bronze-prize winner (2000) of the
national championships.
The
team repeatedly took part in European Cup events. The club’s best finish dates
back to 2003 when the Astrakhan players made it to the finals and won the silver
medal.
The team has been crowned champions of the
professional handball league (2002, 2005), won the league cup (2006) and won
prizes at various international tournaments.
A
children and youth sports school was set up under the auspices of the club that
offers regular training to around 900 young handball
players.
Official
website: http://zarya-kaspiya.ru
Spartak Water Polo Club,
Volgograd

The
professional water polo club Spartak is among the leaders of the Russian water
polo Superleague. The club was founded back in 1994 with the assistance of OAO
LUKOIL.
The
team is a two-time champion (2004, 2010), a silver prize winner (2009) of the
Championship of Russia, eight-time winner of the cup of Russia, and winner of
the 1998 Goodwill Games hosted by New York. Nine of the team’s players were on
the national Russian team winning the bronze at the 2004 Summer Olympics in
Athens.
The
club set up 15 water polo training groups that provide instruction and coaching
to 2,500 children.
In
October 2010 an Aquatics Center built with the financial assistance of OAO
LUKOIL was opened in Volgograd.
Official
website http://www.spartak-volgograd.ru
 Dinamo-Yantar
Volleyball Club, Kaliningrad
In
2006 OAO LUKOIL helped establish the Dinamo-Yantar volleyball club, which plays
in the Super-League of the Russian Volleyball Championships.
The
club has set up two children’s volleyball groups and holds international
children’s competitions on a regular basis. It also has a boarding school
offering training to around 100 young players.
Official
website: http://www.dinamoyantar.ru
Children’s Soccer
League
 Since 2010 LUKOIL has been sponsoring one of Russia's largest
children's sports organizations, the Children's Soccer League. Sporting events
held by the League each year attract about 3,000 participating teams and over
five thousand young soccer players from nearly all of Russia. Beginning in 2002,
the Children’s Soccer League has been holding its traditional tournament called
the “Children’s International Champion League of LUKOIL”. In addition to Russian
teams, the events are annually attended by over 60 children's teams from the
Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Uzbekistan, Baltic States, Poland, Romania and
Bulgaria. It was for the first time ever that in 2010 the Chelsea (UK) and
Partisan (Serbia) children’s teams representing one of Europe's best soccer
schools played in the finals of the Children’s International Champion
League of LUKOIL.
League’s official
website: http://dfl.org.ru
Torpedo Ice-Hockey Club, Nizhny
Novgorod
Since 2008 LUKOIL has been a sponsor of the Torpedo Ice-Hockey
Club.
Torpedo
was founded back in 1946. Since the 1947-1948 season it has been taking part in
the national championships. It has stayed in the strongest league for 49
seasons. The team is a silver prize winner of the 1961 national championship. It
was the first ever team from outside of Moscow to win medals in the USSR
championships and make it to the finals of the national Cup (1961). The team
came in fourth at the USSR championships (1981-1982 and 1984-1985), advanced to
the quarterfinals of the Youth Hockey League (1994-1995) and made it to the
round of last 16 of the Super-League (1999-2000 and
2008-2009).
The
children’s and youth hockey school run under the auspices of the team provides
training to 450 children.
Official
website: http://www.hctorpedo.ru
Dynamo United Hockey Club,
Moscow
The club was formed in 2010 by merging two clubs: HC MVD, that
since 2008 had been sponsored by OAO LUKOIL, and HC Dynamo, founded in 1946.
Since
1991 Dynamo has won the Russian championship six times, and three times has come
in second. In 2006 the white-blue team won the Youth Hockey League Cup and the
European Champions Cup. In 2008 Dynamo won the Spengler Cup and the Mayor of
Moscow Cup, and in 2010 the team won the Season Opening Cup.
The
Dynamo Ice-Hockey Specialized Children and Youth Sports Schools of the Olympic
Reserve named after A.I. Chernyshev, founded back in 1974, is a separate
division of the hockey club. It currently provides training to more than 600
children. The team ranked first in total medals won over the last season,
becoming the winner of the Mayor of Moscow Cup.
Official website
http://www.dynamo.ru
 Olympic Movement
For a
number of years LUKOIL has been an official partner of the Russian Olympic
Committee.
In
2005 LUKOIL became one of the founders of the Fund for Support of Olympians in
Russia and has been using this organization to sponsor the Olympic movement. The
Fund offers target assistance to athletes on the Russian national teams of the
Olympic sports thus enabling future champions to purposefully prepare for the
Olympic Games and achieve high results.
In
2007 the Company provided financial assistance to the Sochi 2014 Organizing
Committee fund thus helping address issues related to nomination of Sochi for
the host of the 12th Winter Olympics in 2014.
Official website of the
Fund: http://www.olympians.ru
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