All-Russian Charitable Program Believe in Yourself 

In supporting youth sports, in 2009 LUKOIL’s sports club http://www.lukoilsportclub.ru, together with the leading Russian athletes, sports veterans and professional sports clubs implemented the All-Russian Charity Program Believe in Yourself! devoted to the Year of Youth in Russia. The primary goal pursued by the project was to actively promote healthy lifestyles and focus on physical training of students and schoolchildren in our country.  

 

The Believe in Yourself! project covered Moscow, Vladimir, Tomsk, Kaliningrad Oblasts, Perm Krai and the Republic of Komi. The charity program included cross-country skiing, soccer, volleyball, go karting and mini soccer events and assisted regional children's and youth sports schools in purchasing sports equipment.

 The number of young people participating in the events of the Believe in Yourself! program exceeded 8,000.

 

The program’s official web-site is accessible at: http://www.povervsebya.info/.

 Sports Contest 

LUKOIL pays special attention to the health of its employees. For this reason, different winter and summer sports competitions are held in all regions of the Company’s presence.

LUKOIL International Sports Contests can be considered one of the most large-scale events aimed at promoting an active lifestyle and sports. The first Sports Contest was held in 2001 in Astrakhan, the following ones – in 2003, in Perm and in 2005, in Kaliningrad.

The fourth winter International Sports Contest dedicated to the 15^th anniversary of LUKOIL took place in 2007 in Kogalym. About 350 athletes from nine teams established along territorial lines of LUKOIL's presence. Those were Western Siberia, Center, Volga Region, North, North-West, Perm, Urals, South and Overseas participated in the final round.   

The sportsmen battled for sixty-five sets of medals in seven sports (futsal, volleyball, weightlifting, arm wrestling, table tennis, tug-of-war and skiing). The team from Perm  captured the first place in the general rating of teams; Western Siberia took second place, and the North, third place.

In June 2010 Moscow hosted a corporate competition for the Cup of the President of OAO LUKOIL marking the 65th anniversary of the Great Victory in the World War II.

The competition was attended by around 300 athletes divided into 10 teams according to their geographical regions: Western Siberia, Center, Volga Region, North, North-West, Perm, Ural, South, CIS and foreign countries.  

The team representing the North-Western region came in first in indoor soccer, while the winners of the volleyball tournament were the Foreign Countries men’s team and Perm women’s team.

In 2011 Perm is scheduled to host the 5^th Sports Contest for the employees of LUKOIL Group’s organizations.

The Company’s initiative in the sphere of sports has been supported by the Russian Olympic Committee and the Federal Agency for Physical Culture and Sports of the Russian Federation.

"Spartak" Football Club, Moscow

LUKOIL acts as the primary sponsor of one of the leaders in Russian soccer, the Moscow Football Club “Spartak”.

In the 2009 season the team came in second in the Russian Championship.

This team is twelve times champion of the former Soviet Union and nine times champion of Russia and has won the Russian Cup and silver medals from Russian football championships three times.  

Spartak is the only club of the former Soviet Union which succeeded in qualifying for the semi-final of three European cups: the Champions League (1991), the Cup Winners’ Cup (now non-existent) (1993) and the UEFA Cup (1998).

The official site of the club: http://rus.spartak.com/

"Zarya Kaspiya", Astrakhan, Team Handball

The Astrakhan team handball club “Zarya Kaspiya” (LUKOIL-Dynamo before 2007) is one of the strongest squads in Russian team handball with a strong history of victories, which has gone from the debut of the first league to the champion of the USSR .

LUKOIL has been acting as the official sponsor of this team since 1997.  

During its history, the team was the bronze winner of the USSR and Russian championships four times, has won silver medals nine times and in 1990, the athletes became the gold winners of the national championship. “Zarya Kaspiya” was the gold-medal winner of the championship organized by the professional team handball league in 2002 and 2006, the silver-medal winner of the European Team Handball Federation Cup in 2003 and the Vice champion of the Russian championship in 2006, 2007and 2008. 

The official site of the club: http://handball.astrobl.ru/

"SPARTAK", Volgograd, Water Polo

Professional water polo club “Spartak” (LUKOIL-Spartak before 2007) is one of the leaders of the Russian Superleague.  

The club was established in January 1994 with OAO LUKOIL support.

The team was the champion of Russia in 2004, a repeat winner of the Russian Cup and the winner of the Goodwill Games of 1998 in New York . Nine team players became bronze winners of the summer Olympic Games in Athens in 2004 as part of the Russian national team.  

The official site of the club: http://www.lukoil-spartak.ru/

  "LUKOIL Racing Team", Moscow, Auto Racing

The auto racing team “LUKOIL Racing Team” is the leader of Russian auto racing.

Participation in ten auto racing seasons brought over 60 Russian and European titles to the team. No other auto racing team has gained such success in the history of theUSSR and Russia.

At present, “LUKOIL Racing” deserves to be called the leading racing team in Russia, implying highly efficient management, a school and racers’ career support, an engineering complex designed for engineering works, construction, testing and preparation of racing cars for competitions. 

Team racers achieve great success during international competitions as well. Sergey Afanasiev's second place victory in the international championship of Formula Masters and Mikhail Aleshin`s third place in the international championship of Formula 2 are considered a great success in 2009.

The official site of the team: http://racing.lukoil.ru/

 

  Children’s Football League

LUKOIL provides support to one of Russia ’s greatest children’s sports organizations, the “Children’s Football League”. About two hundred and fifty teams and over five thousand young football players from almost all Russian regions annually participate in the competitions organized by the League. Since 2002 the Children’s Football League has been organizing the traditional tournament “Children’s International League of LUKOIL Champions”. Children’s teams from the CIS, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania and  China regularly participate in the international finals, which have gained recognition in Russia and abroad.

The final tournament of the “Children’s Champion League” traditionally hosted in Moscow and Novorossiysk was highly praised by FIFA representatives.

In 2009 under the Children Football League aegis Open Jubilee Championship of Children Football League was held. The event was patronaged by А. Аnukov, R. Adamov, U. Zhirkov, D. Kolodin, N. Bagenov, A.Dzagoev, M.Izmailov, V.Budyanskiy, A.Buharov, A.Bobr, I.Taranov, who were among League`s best players in different years. The Russian Football Union, Governments of constituent entities of the Russian Federation and regional football organizations approved the idea of having such games. The Championship`s rounds took place in Moscow, Noginsk, Volgograd, Samara, Vladikavkaz, Naberezhnye Chelni, Tambov, Barnaul, Togliatti and Stariy Oskol.

The official site of the league: http://dfl.org.ru/

 Ski Racing

Russia is traditionally considered one of the strongest countries of the world in skiing. Russian skiers have won a great number of awards in European and international competitions.

For many years, LUKOIL has been providing support to the national ski racing team. The success achieved by Russian skiers at the Winter Olympic Games in Nagano, Salt Lake City and  Turin was, to a large extent, due to the Company’s support.      

Since 1998 LUKOIL has been supporting the national men's team. Since 2006, the Company has acted as the primary sponsor of the Russian Ski Racing Federation and of the men’s and women’s national teams. LUKOIL sponsorship is aimed at training the Russian national team and promoting skiing in Russia.  

The official site of the Russian Ski Racing Federation: http://www.flgr.ru/

 Dynamo-Yantar, Kaliningrad, volleyball

Thanks to LUKOIL's active support a professional volleyball club was established in2006 in Kaliningrad . The club provides facilities for volleyball sections for children and hosts international competitions on a regular basis.

In 2008 the team of Kaliningrad played in Super League of Championship of Russia.

The official site of the club: http://www.dinamoyantar.ru/

 Hockey club "Torpedo", Nizhni Novgorod, hochey

Since 2008 OAO LUKOIL has sponsored the hockey club “Torpedo”. The team “Torpedo” was established in 1946. From the season of 1947-1948 and later on “Torpedo” has been playing in national championships. The team had been staying in the top league for 49 seasons. “Torpedo” was a silver winner of the National Championship in 1961. The team was the first among non-Moscow based teams awarded with medals at the National Championship of theUSSR and reaching the National Cup-final (1961). Among other achievements of the team are: the fourth place at the National Championship of the USSR (1981-1982 and 1984-1985), and reaching the 1/8 of Cup-final of Super League (1999-2000 and 2008-2009).

The official site of the club: http://www.hctorpedo.ru/

 The Olympic Movement

For many years, LUKOIL has acted as an official partner of the Russian Olympic Committee. The Company actively participated in the training of the Russian sportsmen for the summer 2004 Olympic Games in Athens .

In 2005, LUKOIL made a decision on providing assistance to the “Russian Olympian Support Fund” and became one of its founders. The Fund provides support to athletes from Russian national teams who are involved in Olympic sports, which gives future champions an opportunity to train for Olympic Games and achieve great results.   

In 2007, the Company provided financial support to the Fund “Application Committee Sochi-2014” aimed at nominating Sochi for hosting the XXII winter Olympic Games in 2014.

The official site of the Fund: http://www.olympians.ru/