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Environment and Social Responsibility
Social Projects
Due consideration for public interest is a guiding principle for Gazprom’s operations.
Living up to its reputation as a socially responsible business, Gazprom builds sports and
cultural facilities in the regions where it operates, promotes and provides support to
sports, science and arts.
OAO Gazprom focuses its sponsorship and charity efforts on such areas of public life as sports,
culture, education, and science. The Company supports projects that aim to revive national
values.
OAO Gazprom’s corporate sports events and festivals
Spartakiads
The 10 th Winter
Spartakiad brought
together 20 adult
and 11 children’s
teams representing
22 subsidiaries
of OAO Gazprom.
OAO Gazprom holds its annual Spartakiad with the primary goals of promoting healthy lifestyles,
and physical and moral strength among employees of OAO Gazprom’s subsidiaries and entities,
and their children, as well as sharing experience in physical education and mass sports, and
maintaining athletic traditions.
The games take place in cities where OAO Gazprom’s subsidiaries operate.
The landmark winter games took place in Yekaterinburg from the 1st through the 8th of March
2014. During the week, athletes competed in six sports at eight sports facilities in Yekaterinburg
for more than a hundred sets of awards. Adults competed for medals in cross-country skiing,
polyathlon, indoor soccer, table tennis and shooting sports. The children’s Spartakiad programme
included cross-country skiing, ice hockey, table tennis, and indoor soccer. The games brought
together 20 adult and 11 children’s teams representing 22 subsidiaries of OAO Gazprom.
Flare corporate festival
Gazprom’s corporate festival Flare that brings together groups of amateur performers and individual
amateur performers from among the staff of OAO Gazprom’s subsidiaries and entities has
been held since 2003. Best performers are selected during the first round and proceed to the
semi-finals. In 2014, the semi-finals (southern zone) took place in October, in Belgorod, and were
attended by about 1,500 participants from 19 subsidiaries of OAO Gazprom. Flare’s qualifying
competition (northern zone) that took place in Khanty-Mansyisk also hosted more than 1,500 participants
and guests from 18 subsidiaries of OAO Gazprom.
The Festival’s finals are scheduled to be held in May 2015, and will be attended by representatives
of 37 of OAO Gazprom’s subsidiaries.
Flare is a platform enabling all employees of the Gazprom Group and their children to demonstrate
their skills, share experience and obtain invaluable guidance from prominent musicians.
A. Permiakova (the Festival’s presiding judge, a People’s Artist of Russia, a winner of the
Russian Government’s award, a member of the Presidential Council for Culture and Arts Presidium,
Professor, and the Director of the Pyatnitsky Russian Folk Chorus), S. Popov (President of the
Russian Dance Union, Vice President of the World DanceSport Federation), S. Milshtein (a member
of the International Trumpet Guild), G. Apanayeva (the Administrator and Art Director of the
Igor Moiseyev State Academic Folk Dance Ensemble), A. Yarmolenko (the Art Director of the
Belarus honoured pop group Syabry), I. Zhiganov (the Art Director of the children’s musical
theatre Domisolka) shared their skills with Flare’s participants.
Flare has outgrown the format of amateur acts. Its level is so high that some of its participants
have already moved on to the professional stage.
OAO Gazprom Annual Report 2014