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With the support of Rosneft, a concert of the Sretensky Monastery Choir was held in the renovated historical building of the Orenburg Regional Philharmonic. The event, dedicated to the Day of Oil and Gas Industry Workers, also featured the finalists of the Rosneft corporate creative festival, Energy of Talents.
Larisa Boyarskaya, Vice Governor and Deputy Head of the Orenburg Region Government for Social Policy, addressed the guests and participants of the concert with a welcoming speech. She congratulated the oil workers on their professional holiday and noted the great contribution of Rosneft to the region's economy, as well as the high significance of its social and cultural initiatives.
The concert featured unique examples of sacred music and beloved folk songs, which captured the most important milestones in the history of our country, performed by the Sretensky Monastery Choir. Among them were "Motherland", "We Have Only One Russia", "I Love You Life", "Horse", "Call Me Quietly by Name", etc.
A special moment of the evening was the joint performance of the Sretensky Monastery Choir and the finalists of the Energy of Talents festival, for whom this concert was the final one in 2025. In July, employees of 44 Rosneft enterprises from all over the country presented their creative numbers at the final of the competition in Moscow. In Orenburg, Arseniy Makogonenko (RN-Vankor), Ravil Tukhvatullin (Bashneft-Polus), Rustem Ishmukhametov (Bashneft-Novoil), as well as the children's ensemble Rodnaya Pesnya (RN-Yuganskneftegaz) took the stage with a professional team. The concert also featured the folk ensemble of Russian song "Zabavushka" and the accordion duo "VitAnd Akkord" (Kuibyshev Oil Refinery), the trio "Kurazh" (Samaraneftegaz), Stanislav Voronin (Udmurtneft), and the trio "Svobodny Stil" (Ufaorgsintez).
The event drew a full house. Throughout the concert, the audience sang along with the artists and gave them a standing ovation.
Rosneft has been supporting the Sretensky Monastery Choir for over 10 years. During this time, the group has successfully conducted numerous concert tours around Russian cities. Among the productions of past years are "Unholy Saints", "The Romanovs", "Russia: Time, Forward!", "Masterpieces of World Culture", "Life", "Songs of Our Parents".
This year, with the support of Rosneft, the Sretensky Monastery Choir presented a musical production, Dedicated to the Great Victory, prepared for the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, and also conducted a tour in 24 cities in the regions where the Company operates. In addition, concerts for everyone were held on the eve of May 9 at the Vorobyovy Gory observation deck in Moscow and in the Moscow Victory Park in St. Petersburg. The new musical program is designed to preserve the memory of the heroic events. The project includes the most famous works from the front years. The production is based on real stories about the fates of heroes who walked the miles of war from Moscow to Berlin.
The Sretensky Monastery Choir is one of the most famous musical groups in Russia. It has a unique performing style that allows you to hear and feel music in a new way. The group has already visited more than 45 countries and performed at the most famous venues in the world.
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Rosneft supports significant projects in Russian cultural life that are aimed at reviving and preserving spiritual and national values. With the Company's support, the State Hermitage Museum has been holding various exhibitions and displays since 2018. Thus, in 2024, the museum opened an updated permanent exhibition, "Culture and Art of China."
With the Company's support, the Mariinsky Theatre artists under the direction of Valery Gergiev performed in Qatar with the production of "A Thousand and One Nights"; a concert dedicated to the 95th anniversary of Alexandra Pakhmutova was held in Volgograd; a number of exhibitions were organized at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow. In 2023-2024, Tatyana Navka's ice shows "Evenings on a Farm" and "The Nutcracker" were held in Moscow, and the show "The Love Story of Scheherazade" toured in the Indian city of Ahmedabad.
Rosneft has been holding annual creative festivals for its employees since 2011. In 2025, more than 7,000 people applied to participate in the Energy of Talents selection round, which was held at the level of the Group's Companies. The festival is aimed at realizing creative potential, building team unity, and preserving the multinational culture of our country.
Department of Information and AdvertisingPJSC NK RosneftSeptember 8, 2025
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