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CORPORATE PARTICIPATION IN THE LIFE OF SOCIETYWestern SiberiaThis region is the most natural source of personnel for the Company,and therefore education is a local priority. The Statute on IndividualBonuses has been in effect at OOO LUKOIL-Zapadnaya Sibir since2001. Bonuses and diplomas are awarded to the most promising andgoal-oriented secondary school students in Langepas, Urai, Kogalym,and Pokachi, and awards were made to 202 students in 2004. Studentsregularly meet with the Company's veterans and specialists and visitenterprises of LUKOIL-Zapadnaya Sibir.LUKOIL has been working with the Gubkin Russian State Oil and GasUniversity since 1993. A regional preparatory department of the universitywas opened in Kogalym. The department's best students competeto enter the university either on a tuition basis or without tuition.The school, the Company and a student sign a three-party agreementwhich guarantees the students practical training and subsequentemployment with LUKOIL enterprises. In 2004 there were 42 studentsin the preparatory group. Seventeen of them passed the tests andwere enrolled at the University. The total number of students sent byLUKOIL to various Russian universities is 229. The Company organisesinternships every year, and in 2004 alone 1,497 students interned (aspart of their practical courses or graduation requirements) with LUKOILenterprises.Perm OblastEnterprises of Perm Oblast (OOO LUKOIL-Perm, OOO LUKOIL-Permnefteprodukt, OOO LUKOIL Permnefteorgsintez, and others) areleaders in the advancement of social project techniques, and not justamong LUKOIL organisations. The cooperation between the local government,the Company and the public sector has unique features.LUKOIL-Perm has been active in oblast and municipal grant competitionssince 2002, but the most notable event is its own corporate competitionfor social and cultural projects. Over the past three years thesecorporate competitions had hundreds of entries from municipal andpublic organisations that offered highly competitive, professional andsometimes innovative projects that targeted various social issues.The 2003 competition had 57 winning projects of which the most noteworthywere those for the categories "My City – My Home","Protecting Indigenous Nature", "Children Are Our Future", and "Healthy67