Memories Are Alive For As Long As We Remember: Taking Stock of SIBUR’s Victory Day Campaign

7 may 2025

Ahead of the 80th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War, SIBUR launched a corporate-wide charity campaign to support war veterans, home front workers, wartime children, and lonely pensioners as part of its Formula for Good Deeds social investment program. The company’s volunteers not only assembled food packages and gifts but also engaged the elderly in heartwarming discussions and masterclasses.

The Victory Day charity campaign drew over 500 SIBUR employees from across 13 of the company’s host cities representing the following sites and organizations: Amur Gas Chemical Complex, BIAXPLEN, ZapSibNeftekhim, Zapsibtransgas, Kazanorgsintez, Neftekhimiya, Petrochemical Transportation Company (hereinafter – PTC), New Resources, Nyagangazpererabotka, SIBUR-Innovations, SiburTyumenGas, grassroot-level trade union organizations, and the company’s youth associations. As a result, some 320 seniors not only became recipients of tangible aid but also, most importantly, were accorded attention, care, and appreciation for their contribution to achieving the Great Victory.

In Krasnodar, activists from the New Resources Engineering Center held a campaign titled To the Lasting Memory of the Heroes of the Great Patriotic War. Since 2020, our caring colleagues have been gathering annually in the run-up to the May 9 celebrations to take care of the fallen heroes’ graves at the Vsesvyatskoye (All-Saints) Cemetery. The year of the 80^th anniversary of the Great Victory was no exception. Volunteers and their families removed debris and litter, painted fences, restored inscriptions on the tombstones, and planted flowers.

Anna Solovyova, an expert at New Resources, Krasnodar:
"I came up with the idea for my project after I had taken part in Yura Arestenko’s volunteering initiative last year. I wanted to carry on doing the work pioneered by my colleagues who for years have been taking care of the Great Patriotic War heroes’ graves at our city’s oldest cemetery. These efforts are a reminder of how vital it is to keep burial sites in a good order to preserve historical memory and pass on the knowledge about this great feat to future generations. I would like to thank all the volunteers who joined us. We managed to accomplish something important and impactful by honoring those who had died in the line of duty defending our country’s freedom and security."

Employees at the Corporate Center in Moscow collected sets of groceries gifts and signed congratulatory cards for elderly beneficiaries of the Give Food charity foundation. In Noyabrsk, members of the Pro-Art club joined hands with Tatiana Khlebnikova, a professional section leader of PTC’s primary trade union organization to write letters and messages of good wishes to the veterans. All participants received Victory badges and St. George ribbons.

Elena Menshenina, Senior Specialist, Nyagangazpererabotka, Nyagan:
"We had the honor of meeting several incredible nonagenarians who still enjoy singing, dancing, and exude incredible energy. They shared with us their tragic tales of wartime woes, and, yet, despite all the pain they had had to live through, their memories are filled with warmth and light. We didn’t want to part company with them as we were enjoying singing, dancing, listening to their family stories, while lavishing them with our attention. Thank you for the chance to hold this vital campaign! I’m confident that our colleagues will support the idea of making this an annual tradition."

Activists from Svobodny’s Amur Gas Chemical Complex assembled tea collections donated by their fellow colleagues and hosted workshops on crafting patriotic brooches featuring St. George ribbons as part of the grant-funded Eternal Youth project. Sixty beneficiaries of Svobodny’s Lada Social Welfare Center took part in these activities. The volunteers had prepared and pre-assembled components of the decorations to simplify the assembly process for the elderly. The completed brooches became both a symbol of remembrance and made nice holiday gifts.

In Tyumen, New Resources’ volunteers gave a brooch-making master class titled Flowers from St. George Ribbons to senior beneficiaries of the Regional Active Longevity Center, thus uniting the veterans and the youths in a creative patriotic endeavor. The event was held as part of the grant-supported Hobby Without Borders project implemented under the Formula for Good Deeds program.

Tomsk employees of SIBUR-Innovations Research Center implemented the Spark of Kindness campaign by honoring home front workers in Timiryazevskoye Village with gifts and words of gratitude for their selfless work that was fundamental to achieving the collective Victory.

Liliya Daricheva, Senior Specialist at SIBUR-Innovations, Tomsk:
"Their resilience, selflessness, and unbounded love for their homeland helped them stand strong during the hardest years. It is with deep appreciation and pride that we thank our home front veterans and wish the very best! Many thanks to our compassionate colleagues and Timiryazevskoye township’s residents for their donations that went to buy food packages and flowers, which we reverently presented to each veteran. We saw a warm welcome at every home we visited. We sang the Katyusha song together; one veteran even played the accordion for us. They shared their memories of the war era, of their childhood, and of that unforgettable day of May 9, 1945 when the whole nation as one proudly celebrated the Great Victory!"

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