Social programs
SOCIAL PROGRAM “VETERAN”
The Company reveals much concern for veterans and retirees. Surgutneftegas contributes greatly to the solution of vitally important problems of its former employees, it cooperates with regional public organizations of war and labour veterans in all regions of its operation, such as the Victory Fund, Pioneer Geologists Fund, the V.I.Muravlenko Fund, the Veteran Society of the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation, Veteran Fund of Mining Industry, War and Military Service Veteran Committee, Veteran Council of War and Labour on the Northern Areas - totally, with more than 20 veteran organizations.
The Company supports almost 15,000 retired employees, more than 10,000 of them reside in the city of Surgut and Surgutsky District. The former employees of the Company include 424 veterans of the Great Patriotic War and 1,668 invalids of war and labour.
Surgutneftegas’ Collective Agreement offers a variety of benefits and insurance arrangements to the retired employees, veterans and invalids of war and labour. The benefits include financial assistance on special occasions, vouchers for sanatorium and health resort treatment, cosmetic repairs of flats, municipal services and billing payment.
The Organization of Non-working Retirees dated to 1992 is aimed to protect old people’s rights and interests, improve their social status, organize their active participation in social life, and support retirees practically, psychologically and socially.
Surgutneftegas contributes greatly to the work of the Organization, supports initiative proposals of the Organization’s Council to maintain socio-cultural activity of the retirees and organize their participation in the company’s life.
The Organization of Non-working Retirees holds different clubs, therapeutic and amateur activities groups.
CHARITY WORK
OJSC “Surgutneftegas” considers it to be its civic duty to benefit spiritual and social values development and preservation.
The Company’s sponsored and charitable project implementation is not an episodic display of goodwill, but separate activity applying the principles of promising long-term cooperation with national centres of art and culture, social funds and social security organizations, and carrying out systematic targeted aid programs for socially vulnerable people.
The Company continues successful cooperation with the Vakhtangov State Academical Theater, the State Tretyakov Gallery, and the Surgut Art Museum. Dozens of national art projects of these Russian cultural centres were realized under Surgutneftegas’ patronage.
The Company’s refinery also has long-term relations with such St.Petersburg cultural centres as Maliy Drama Theatre – the Theatre of Europe, Musical Comedy Theatre, Bolshoy Symphony Orchestra of St.Petersburg Philarmonic Hall.
The refinery’s cultural Centre has accommodated a virtual branch of the Russian Museum. The people of Kirishi have an opportunity to get acquainted with about 400,000 pieces of work of different types and genres created within a thousand years. The Company holds an active stand toward educational institution development, their training and technical facilities enlargement, targeted aid render for orphans, nursing homes of aboriginal population of the Far North, large families, and children in urgent need for expensive medical treatment.
Every year, the Company supports different confessions contributing greatly to building-up and reconstruction projects of the churches and mosques, to activity of religious and educational social organizations.
For more than 17 years the Company has been patronizing the city public charity organization “Zabota” for socially vulnerable people: so, there are 1,657 large indigent families, and 500 invalids (with 148 children among them) under its auspices. Zabota assists them in purchasing treatment facilities, flats renovation, telephone setting-up, obtaining free vouchers for sanatorium and health resort treatment for physically disabled children, tuition payment for gifted children from large families. Physically disabled grown-ups and children are provided an opportunity to attend PC users’ courses, and enjoy social shop services. All the benefits available for people under the organization’s wardship are prescribed in the Collective Agreement.
For many years OJSC “Surgutneftegas” has been involved in various regional projects of social character. The Company sponsors regional conferences of young professionals including the contests “The Golden Future of Yugra” and “The Black Gold of Yugra”, supports the public organization of aboriginal underpopulation Khanty “Yugra Rescue”.
SPORTS FOR EVERYONE
Surgutneftegas contributes to popular sports development and promotes healthy lifestyle among the Company’s staff.
Thus far, the Company have built and opened 21 sports facilities in the city of Surgut and Surgutsky District, so that the employees, their families and region residents could go in for sports and engage in athletics. These facilities include three sports and recreation centers Neftyanik in the city of Surgut, Olimp in Lyantor and Delfin in the town of Fedorovsky, which offer an opportunity to exercise in 7 swimming pools, 3 gyms, 4 sport game halls, aerobics, billiards, and table tennis halls. The sports complex Olimpiets in Surgut is equipped with ice rink, sport game and aerobics hall and gym. Sports recreation complex in the town of Nizhnesortymsky includes a sports hall and a gym. On the territory of Surgutneftegas business units there are 16 more sports halls.
In 2010, the Company commissions two new sports halls. Moreover, this year in the town of Nizhnesortymsky, Surgutneftegas in cooperation with Surgutsky District Administration starts the construction of a new sports complex equipped with a sport game hall and a swimming pool.
The sports facilities created provide an opportunity to go in for 20 different kinds of sports. Every month, over 20 thousand Surgutneftegas employees and their families attend the Company’s sports halls and complexes.
Every year, more than 500 sports games and contests in different kinds of sports are held by the Company. Sports contests among business units teams, managers, veterans, drivers and family members of the staff became a good sport tradition. Annually, more than 13 thousand people from 52 business units of the Company participate in such contests.
The Company’s refining plant, Kirishinefteorgsintez, places high emphasis on sports activities development. Exceptional opportunities for physical skills development and health promotion are provided by the refinery’s Neftyanik Sports Center. Swimming pools, sports halls and halls for baseball, basketball, handball and mini football games including halls for international level contests, tennis courts, in-door running track, aerobics, athletics and wrestling halls, stadium with two football fields, athletics training ground, other sports facilities, and stands able to take 5 thousand people. About 2500 people attend different sports clubs and over 500 children take swimming training courses.
Center for Water Sports built by the plant became the training ground for the national men’s and women’s water polo teams. Annual International Prestige Water Polo Contest KIRISHI CUP is held there. World leading teams such as selected teams of Austria, Greece, Germany, Italy, Kazakhstan, Canada, the Netherlands, USA and Russia take part in this contest.
KINEF-Surgutneftegas women’s water polo team is an eight-time champion of Russia, five-time the Russian Cup winner, four-time silver prizewinner of European Cup championships.
Elite sports development is an important part of physical training and sports promotion. Surgutneftegas is proud of world champions in swimming, shooting sports, biathlon, champions and medalists in orienteering, arm wrestling, ski racing, weightlifting and hockey brought up in the Company’s sports clubs. There are more than 100 masters of sports among Surgutneftegas employees.
Children of the Company’s employees attending five branches of Olympic Reserve Sports School Neftyanik (Surgut) go into such sports as mini football, hockey, swimming, skiing, and boxing. The number of children attending the school is mounting from year to year. Today, 1226 young sportsmen, Olympic hope of Surgutneftegas, are training in the school.
