Rosneft and its subsidiaries are organising and taking part in events to honour the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War. The Company organises hundreds of campaigns across Russia. These campaigns aim to pass on the memory of the heroic deeds of our people, who liberated the world from fascism, to the younger generation. There are many oil industry workers among the heroes of the front and rear.

Oil workers demonstrated their heroism in the battles of the Great Patriotic War and their labour prowess at enterprises behind the front lines. The Red Army was supplied with the necessary fuel and lubricants. During the war years, the few remaining specialists, women and teenagers who replaced the men who had gone to the front, achieved a significant increase in oil production and refining volumes. Greenfields were discovered and oil refineries were put into operation. Thanks to the selfless efforts of oil workers, our country won the “battle of machinery”, bringing victory closer.

The Company’s employees congratulate veterans of the Great Patriotic War and oil industry workers in various regions of the country on Victory Day. There are festive concerts for them, where the winners of the Energy of Talents corporate competition perform. Rosneft volunteers also visit veteran oil workers at home to congratulate them and deliver commemorative gifts on behalf of the Company’s staff.

With the support of Rosneft, the Sretensky Monastery Choir is touring 24 cities across the country with a musical programme titled “Dedicated to the Great Victory”. The programme is based on true stories of heroes who travelled hundreds of miles from Moscow to Berlin during the war, and the best works of the war years.

Over 100,000 Rosneft employees from more than 40 Russian regions are taking part in the nationwide Immortal Regiment campaign in various formats. On the eve of Victory Day, Rosneft enterprises observed a minute’s silence in memory of those who died in the war. They also held a Memorial Watch, during which employees took up their shifts carrying portraits of relatives who had fought in the Great Patriotic War.

Around 1,000 employees from 33 Rosneft enterprises took part in a group reading of Motherland, a poem by Konstantin Simonov. Employees of Samotlorneftegaz read the famous lines at the monument “To our fellow countrymen who died during the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945” in Victory Park, Nizhnevartovsk, unfurling an 80-metre St. George’s ribbon.

Over 500 employees of Rosneft’s Samara group of enterprises, veterans, students, volunteers and Samara Region residents in Novokuybyshevsk also unfurled an 80-metre St. George’s ribbon near the memorial complex to the heroes of the Great Patriotic War, honoured the memory of the fallen heroes with a minute’s silence and laid flowers at the Eternal Flame.

Rosneft focuses on shaping spiritual and patriotic values among young people. Veteran oil workers and the Company’s employees held Lessons of Courage at schools, universities and colleges. There, they told young people how oil industry enterprises operated during the Great Patriotic War. Students from Rosneft Classes and the Movement of the Firsts had the opportunity to speak to witnesses of those events in person. The Battle of Machinery documentary film, which was filmed with Rosneft’s support, was also shown to schoolchildren in Ufa, Samara, Gubkinsky, Saratov, Nizhnevartovsk, and the Tazovsky village in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District. The film showcases the significant contribution of oil workers to the Great Victory.

Samotlorneftegaz and Sevkomneftegaz organised the Victory Waltz patriotic campaign in Nizhnevartovsk and Gubkinsky, attended by representatives of three generations: veterans, enterprise employees, and Rosneft Class students. Volunteers danced a waltz to the Blue Handkerchief song, performed by Klavdiya Shulzhenko and other famous singers for soldiers on the front lines of the Great Patriotic War.

On the eve of Victory Day, the Company’s volunteers organised a series of large-scale community clean-up days. They renovated, refurbished and cleaned up memorials and monuments dedicated to the heroes of the Great Patriotic War. Volunteers from the Kuibyshev Oil Refinery and Novokuibyshevsk Petrochemical Company cleaned up over 60 graves of war veterans in Samara. Volunteers from Samotlorneftegaz cleaned up the territory of the memorial complex “To our fellow countrymen who died during the Great Patriotic War of 1941–1945” in Nizhnevartovsk. Employees of Udmurtneft helped to renovate a monument to those who died during the war in the Svetloye village in the Votkinsky district. The enterprise also helped to renovate memorials in six other Udmurt Republic settlements. Bashneft organised the clean-up of the area and the renovation of parts of the square near the “To the Ishimbay oil workers who fell in battle for their homeland” memorial in Ishimbay. The Movement of the Firsts students took part in all the events.

The Company organised mass car rallies involving over 1,000 participants in various Russian regions. Employees of the Company’s enterprises — RN-Yuganskneftegaz, Tyumenneftegaz, RN-Uvatneftegaz, Kharampurneftegaz, ROSPAN International, RN-Purnegaz, and the Tyumen corporate research institute — held a joint event in the Tyumen Region and the Yamalo-Nenets and Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Districts. They travelled 1,418 km by car with Victory Banners, corresponding to the number of days that the Great Patriotic War lasted.

An RN-Vankor car convoy drove a thousand kilometres across the tundra from the Vankor field to the port of Bukhta Sever on the Kara Sea coast, carrying the Victory Banner. Bashneft organised a 160-kilometre car rally involving 50 vehicles, which took place between the labour-honoured cities of Ishimbay and Ufa in the Republic of Bashkortostan. During the Great Patriotic War, oil from Ishimbay was transported to Ufa for processing at the Ufa Refinery (now Bashneft-UNPZ). The produced fuel was then used to support the front and rear.

Saratov Refinery, RN-Vedomstvennaya Okhrana and SIBINTECH volunteers drove a car convoy decorated with anniversary symbols along the streets of Saratov from the refinery to the memorial complex dedicated to soldier-drivers. During the war, convoys of vehicles carrying food, military equipment, uniforms and fuel produced at the Saratov Oil Refinery travelled through Saratov to Stalingrad. During the fierce battles for Stalingrad, the road between Saratov and Stalingrad was called the “road of life”. As part of the Krasnodar–Novorossiysk patriotic car rally, Rosneft-Kubannefteprodukt employees drove 150 km in 20 cars. Komsomolsk Refinery employees organised a car rally from the Memorial Complex in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, where oil refiners laid flowers at the Eternal Flame. A 1970s Ural motorcycle led a convoy of over 50 decorated cars bearing anniversary symbols and Victory Banners.

Furthermore, the Company’s employees in various regions have compiled routes for car travellers to memorable places dedicated to the Great Patriotic War. During the holidays, Rosneft filling stations play anniversary greetings and songs from the war years for Victory Day, and give out St. George’s ribbons. Several stations have themed photo zones, field kitchens and concerts featuring creative groups performing patriotic songs.

Rosneft takes part in federal and regional events to plant trees and shrubs on the eve of Victory Day. As part of the Memory Garden international campaign, together with activists from the Movement of the Firsts, Orenburgneft employees planted more than 10,000 pine seedlings on 4.5 hectares of the Buzuluk forest, which had been damaged by a natural fire, and 1,500 pines in the steppe territory of the Kurmanaevsky District of the Orenburg Region. Kurgannefteprodukt organised the planting of 20,000 tree seedlings in the shape of a geoglyph representing 80 Years of Victory. Similarly, the geoglyph of 80 was created by employees of Bashneft-Dobycha in Neftekamsk, Republic of Bashkortostan. Employees of the VNIKTIneftehimoborudovanie corporate institute took part in the greening of the Mamayev Kurgan slope in Volgograd. They prepared an area for a future avenue and planted 80 white maple saplings.

Company employees took part in dozens of sporting and intellectual competitions and contests to celebrate the anniversary of Victory Day. For instance, Rosneft organised a corporate snowboarding competition to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Victory Day. Over 100 athletes from 35 subsidiaries met at the ski resort in Baikalsk (Irkutsk Region). Meanwhile, in Tomsk, a 200-metre Victory Ski Run was organised to commemorate the heroes of the 200-day Battle of Stalingrad, a turning point in the Great Patriotic War.

The enterprises have organised memorial museum exhibitions, and street photo exhibitions reflecting the selfless labour of oil workers in the rear and the heroism of front-line soldiers are being opened in the cities of the Company’s operations. The Fuel of Victory photo exhibition has opened at the Muzeon Art Park in Moscow. To highlight the contribution of Bashkir oil workers to the victory, Bashneft opened a photo exhibition in a park on the banks of the Belaya River and planted a commemorative avenue of apple and fir trees. An exhibition of patriotic drawings by the children of Rosneft enterprises employees is taking place on the Kosmonavtov Embankment in Saratov.

Employees of Verkhnechonskneftegaz initiated and constructed the Fire of Remembrance memorial at the Verkhnechonskoye field’s shift camp. On significant national dates, it will be lit to symbolise the enduring memory of those who lost their lives on the battlefield.

The production of large-scale murals, supported by Orenburgneft and the Ryazan Oil Refining Company, was one of the highlights of the anniversary year in Buzuluk (Orenburg Region) and Ryazan, respectively.

Rosneft is committed to honouring the historical memory of the Great Patriotic War and the immortal deeds of veterans who fought on the front lines and forged the Great Victory in the rear. Their unconditional love for their motherland and their patriotism set an unshakable example for present and future generations.

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Rosneft Oil Company
May 7, 2025