December 5th is annually observed as Volunteer Day in Russia.  Rosneft’s subsidiaries hold gatherings and meetings where the company’s volunteers review the year's results for the corporate volunteer movement, discuss future development plans, and recognize the most active participants.

More than 150 volunteers participated in the annual volunteer gathering at Bashneft. Volunteers reported on the implementation of the Platform for Good Deeds programme in 2025, shared experiences and discussed ways to motivate employees to participate in initiatives. Similar year-end reviews of volunteer projects and awards ceremonies for outstanding volunteers took place at Novokuibyshevsk Petrochemical Company, RN-Purneftegaz, Kharampurneftegaz, RN-North-West and other enterprises.

Corporate volunteering plays an important role in addressing socially significant challenges in Rosneft's operating regions and spans various areas: humanitarian, social, sports and environmental activities.

Events dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War became the main focus this year.  Rosneft volunteers organized over 1,670 events across the country aimed at preserving historical memory, strengthening intergenerational bonds and fostering patriotism.  Enterprise employees provided assistance to veterans and offered congratulations, cleaned and repaired monuments and military burial sites, and conducted courage lessons at affiliated children's institutions and corporate museums.  Young people from Movement of the First supported many of the oil workers' initiatives.  Around 4,000 children and teenagers from the Movement participated in patriotic events.

The ceremonial "Candle of Memory" event became a symbol of generational continuity, bringing together more than 150 volunteers from Samotlorneftegaz.  At the memorial to fellow soldiers who died during the Great Patriotic War, participants lit a thousand candles and arranged them to spell the words "We Remember."

Tyumenneftegaz organized more than 10 events, including a courage lesson at the Polar Star educational centre in the settlement of Tazovsky in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District.  At the lesson, volunteers told children from the Movement of the First, Yunarmiya, cadets and schoolchildren from the Seventieth Spring search unit about historical events from the war years and the heroic deeds of Yamal natives.

Volunteers from Vostsibnefte­gaz and Slavneft-Krasnoyarskneftegaz participated in a cleanup at Krasnoyarsk's oldest necropolis, which is included in the unified state register of cultural heritage sites.  Employees tidied burial sites from the Great Patriotic War era.

RN-Krasnodarneftegaz employees participated in cleaning burial sites of Great Patriotic War participants at Vsesvi­atskoye Cemetery in Krasnodar.

Volunteers from Novokuibyshevsk Refinery published a collection of stories based on the memories of plant veterans titled "A Feat Forever Written into History" and held literary readings for students and schoolchildren in Novokuibyshevsk. The refinery workers created an electronic information portal with video stories and memories of war veterans who worked at the plant, along with archival documents and photographs.  Plant employees organized a traveling exhibition dedicated to Hero Cities and plant veterans who participated in the Great Patriotic War.

Volunteers from Novokuibyshevsk Petrochemical Company organized a cleanup at military burial sites and a bicycle rally with flower-laying at monuments and memorials dedicated to the Great Patriotic War.

The Museum of Labor Glory of the Angarsk Petrochemical Company conducts work to preserve historical memory and foster civic responsibility among the city's younger generation, hosting patriotic lectures by enterprise veterans dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Great Victory.

Volunteers also organized patriotic car and bicycle rallies, planted alleys of glory in many cities, unfurled an 80-meter St. George ribbon, and visited war veterans.

Beyond events dedicated to the Victory anniversary, Rosneft continued developing its large-scale corporate volunteer programme Platform of Good Deeds. In 2025, company enterprises held more than 1,000 volunteer events with participation from 76,000 employees.

Company volunteers support residents of family social centres, veterans and people facing difficult life circumstances. Oil workers actively participate in charitable nationwide and regional initiatives for children,  including the interactive educational project Danger-Free City and campaigns such as Getting Ready for School, Box of Courage and others.

Employees of the corporate research institute in Samara annually support young patients at the Department of Oncology, Hematology and Chemotherapy at Ivanova Hospital. Volunteers from the Tyumen corporate institute supported the All-Russian Public Charitable Foundation Russian Children's Fund and helped children prepare for school by purchasing backpacks and filling them with school supplies.  Volunteers from the corporate institute in Ufa provided toy sets, books, clothing and shoes to low-income families and children in difficult life circumstances.

The Syzran Refinery is successfully implementing the PRO-Hobby volunteer project. Employee volunteers conduct themed master classes in various areas—from safe skating lessons by the enterprise's hockey team and football instruction to decorating Christmas ornaments.  Volunteers from ROSPAN International held a “Goodwill Fair” – they made decorations, household items, paintings, and embroidery themselves, which they exchanged at the fair for items needed by the institution they sponsor. The oil workers have been helping the Novy Urengoy City Society for People with Disabilities for four years.

RN-Vankor supports children at the Regional Family and Children's Centre Rostok and the Raduga rehabilitation centre. Employees collect and deliver books for the centres' libraries, prepare gifts for the children on Knowledge Day and New Year, and conduct cleanup days and building interior renovations at the institutions in spring and autumn.

Over 2,000 volunteers from Bashneft were involved in children's campaigns Gift for School, Father Christmas's Gift and Rosneft Christmas Tree, helping 25 institutions they sponsor.  Children in difficult life circumstances are invited to various celebrations and performances, large-scale sporting and cultural events. They are visited in social institutions and receive stationery sets before the start of the school year and gifts for the New Year.

As part of the Give a Child a Summer campaign, Komsomolsk Refinery employees collect sports equipment, craft sets and board games for the children at orphanage No. 20, which the refinery sponsors. Together with the children, they plant flowers in the play yard.

Samara oil workers help children from large, low-income, and single-parent families. For Knowledge Day, oil workers delivered stationery supplies to children at the Family social assistance centre in Samara's Oktyabrsky district.  As part of the Children of Donbass charity campaign, volunteers collected gifts and conducted creative workshops.  Samaraneftegaz employees fulfill the wishes of children at a social rehabilitation centre for minors in the Samara region as part of the Rosneft Christmas Tree campaign.

Environmental volunteering is an integral part of the ongoing environment-oriented initiatives of Rosneft's subsidiaries. Annually, company enterprises hold campaigns to improve public and natural areas, collecting plastic caps, waste paper and batteries.  

In 2025, the Company's subsidiaries sent a record-breaking 1,000 tonnes of waste paper for recycling. Oil workers take a responsible approach to environmental preservation for future generations, annually participating in various environmental campaigns and cleanup days for urban areas, reservoir banks, recreation zones and natural territories. Enterprise employees regularly replenish water resources in operating regions with valuable fish species.

Novokuibyshevsk Refinery, Saratov Refinery, Novokuibyshevsk Petrochemical Company and Samotlorneftegaz annually organize plogging runs in popular recreation areas, combining running with cleanup efforts. Family members, students from sponsored institutions and representatives from the youth organization the Movement of the Firsts join the campaigns.

Volunteers from Sakhalinmorneftegaz-Shelf conducted environmental campaigns at the Botanical Garden in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, resulting in a new exhibition of rare plants—various conifer species, Chinese cercis, maple, perennial anemone, specialty peonies and others.

Verkhnechonskneftegaz volunteers supported a large-scale environmental cleanup campaign in Pribaikalsky National Park.  In the area near the village of Tonta in the Olkhon district of the Baikal region, oil workers collected 8 tons of waste.

In 2025, over 300 environmental initiatives were implemented, involving more than 30,000 Rosneft employees and their family members.

RN-Purneftegaz volunteers conducted a series of educational campaigns for children called Seeds of Kindness, dedicated to the nature and animals of Yamal.  Environmental literacy lessons introduced children in playful form to migratory and wintering birds and rules for caring for the environment.

Another volunteering area with active participation from both adult employees and their children is helping shelter animals.  Enterprises regularly hold campaigns to collect food and care items for pets, and organize team visits to help clean shelter grounds, repair enclosures and walk animals.

Volunteers from Ryazan Oil Refining Company brought 3 tons of food to the Oksky State Natural Biosphere Reserve as part of the Feed the Bison campaign: apples, carrots, pumpkins, zucchini and potatoes necessary for balanced nutrition of endangered animals during cold weather.

Young activists from the Movement of the Firsts have become reliable assistants to Rosneft volunteers. Schoolchildren and teenagers eagerly respond to calls to participate in thematic and environmental projects.

Department of Information and Advertising
Rosneft
December 5, 2025

Keywords: Social news 2025