Amur Oblast’s NCVC Volunteers Help Bring New Year's Cheer to Senior Citizens

15 december 2025

Volunteers representing Amur Oblast’s regional branch of the National Corporate Volunteering Council (hereinafter, Amur Oblast’s NCVC) have brought their holiday greetings to 25 senior citizens cared for by Svobodny’s Lada Comprehensive Social Services Center. On New Year’s Eve, they taught a master class in stained-glass mosaic and put on a festive concert. The event was made possible thanks to the support of SIBUR's Formula for Good Deeds social investment program.

The celebration was arranged by corporate volunteers from Belogorsk and Svobodny who happen to be the members of Amur Oblast’s NCVC. They represented such companies as Amur Gas Chemical Complex, Gazpromtrans’s Amur Oblast branch, Gazprom Helium Service, Gazprom Pererabotka Blagoveshchensk, Russian Railways’ Belogorsk Locomotive Depot, Svobodny’s Line Pipe Operation Center of Gazprom Transgas Tomsk, Transneft Far East, Amur Oblast’s Rosreestr Office, and others.

Yelena Snezhko, Head of SIBUR's Formula for Good Deeds social investment program and Chair of the NCVC's regional branches in Amur Oblast and Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug–Yugra:
“It has been our good tradition to gather on the New Year’s eve with our friends from Svobodny’s Lada Comprehensive Social Services Center, to help put them in a festive mood, to share with them our attention and warmth so they can feel to be part of a big and friendly family. Our charitable initiatives manifest the care and energy of the NCVC's corporate volunteers here in Amur Oblast: together we come up with reasons for holding these long-awaited joint gatherings and uphold traditions of good endeavors. These events bring joy not only to people in our charge but also to the volunteers themselves. These initiatives help us strengthen social bonds between people to make Amur Oblast warmer and kinder.”

The event began with a master class on making New Year's tree decorations using the stained-glass mosaic technique. At the class, its participants were able to immerse themselves in the world of creativity and hand-make beautiful tree ornaments. Among those helping to create the New Year's mood were Yelena Kazazayeva, a consultant with the Municipal Housing and Utilities Management and Improvement Department at Svobodny’s City Administration, and Anatoly Poberezhnik, an operator of text writing call center at Sovershenstvo, who performed everyone's favorite winter season hits: Pоtolok Ledianoy and Sneg Kruzhitsya. Alexander Gladkikh sang the songs 31 Dekabrya (December 31) and Semya (Family), the lyrics for which were written by Olga Vasilchenko, a speech therapist at the Belogorsk Comprehensive Social Services Center and an active member of in the NCVC in Amur Oblast.

Yevgenia, 89:
“A huge thank you to the organizers and volunteers for the amazing master class, you engulfed us in a sea of positive emotions! You helped us feel really young at heart. I had never thought I could create such beauty with my hands. Wishing everyone the best of health, may God be with you.”

Svetlana, 75:
“I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for the wonderful celebration! You brought us so much joy, warmth, and attention that my heart is filled with gratitude and pride for our young. Your caring attitude and patience made this day unforgettable and cheerful. Thanks to you, we felt needed and special. A special thank you for the delicious and useful gifts you brought us. May your own lives be filled with the same warmth, joy, and happiness that you share with the others. Thank you very much. Happy New Year!”

The meeting culminated in a festive dinner with favorite songs, and New Year’s eve greetings from Father Christmas and his Snow Maiden, impersonated by Leonard Chifanov, a teacher at the Amur Institute of Railway Transport, and Maria Dyachkova, a leading specialist at the Svobodny branch of Dorprofzhel at the TransBaikal Railway.

Marina Savvateyeva, Head of the Day Stay Department for Senior and Disabled Citizens in Need of a Caregiver’s Assistance at Svobodny’s Lada Comprehensive Social Services Center:
“I would like to express my tremendous gratitude to Amur Oblast’s chapter of the NCVC for their wonderful master class! It was super exciting and informative. Everyone was overwhelmed by lots of positive emotions and inspired to create genuine masterpieces with their own hands. It is especially gratifying to know that, thanks to events such as these, lives of elderly people get filled with bright emotions and new impressions. Your care and attention made this day an unforgettable event for every attendee. Happy New Year! May the next year bring you joy, happiness, and many successes with your creativity! A lot of happiness to you for your kind hearts and compassion! You make this world brighter and lighter!”

Amur Oblast’s chapter of the NCVC was established in 2021 at the initiative of SIBUR with the support of the Government of Amur Oblast to better coordinate the efforts of companies, volunteering centers, and non-profits in promulgating the best volunteering practices in the region. One area of work is providing volunteering assistance to the elderly. As part of the Postal Greetings campaign, corporate volunteers congratulated about 200 charges of the Raichikhinskiy Nursing Home for the Elderly and Disabled and Svobodny’s Lada Comprehensive Social Services Center, in addition to putting on the festive New Year's Miracle concert, organizing master classes in floristry, in making Christmas tree compositions, and hand painting gingerbread cookies.

Marina Manukyan, Lead Accountant at Gazprom Helium Service, a volunteer:
“Today I was a volunteer at the NCVC's New Year's celebration organized for the elderly charges of Svobodny’s Lada Comprehensive Social Services Center. Why did I decide to join this event? Because I am ready to help, to share my energy, compassion, and warmth. Plus, I adore creating. The most memorable moment was my conversation with one great lady:
— 'You’re a beauty,' I said to her.
— 'Come on, what kind of beauties are we?!' she replies with sadness in her voice.
— ‘You’ve got beautiful eyes, I can see kindness and warmth in them, which means you are a beauty!'
— 'Yes, you can see a person’s soul this way. Then I agree! Thank you! All the best to you, beauty!'
I would like to thank the NCVC for the opportunity to spend my time in the company of such beauties!”

Anatoly Poberezhnik, an operator with a text writing call center at Sovershenstvo, a volunteer:
“This was the first time I participated in an event of this magnitude. Everything was very cordial, the atmosphere was so warm, bright, homely. Even though I have no sight, I felt this atmosphere, felt how pleased everyone was. You guys are really sincere, open, kind, nice people. That’s why I would like thank everyone single one of you, thank you so much!”

Background:

The Amur NCVC Office was established in 2021 at the initiative of SIBUR with the support of the Government of Amur Oblast to coordinate the efforts of companies, volunteering centers and non-profit organizations in promulgating the best volunteering practices throughout the region.

The council is made up of representatives of 33 companies and volunteering centersfrom Blagoveshchensk, Belogorsk, Svobodny, Tsiolkovsky and other district in Amur Oblast. The list of members includes: Amur Gas Chemical Complex, NIPIGAZ, Gazprombank, Gazpromtrans, Gazprom Pererabotka Blagoveshchensk, Svobodny’s Line Pipe Operation Center of Gazprom Transgas Tomsk, MTS, Amur Oblast’s Branch of the Social Fund of Russia, Russian Post, the Rosreestr’s Office in charge of Amur Oblast, Belogorsk Maintenance Depot of Russian Railways, Sberbank, Transneft -Far East, Vostochny Spaceport, as well as experts representing local volunteering and resource centers, and charitable foundations.

Learn moreabout the Council's activities by visiting its website at https://www.formula-hd.ru/nskvAO/.

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Learn moreabout the Council's activities by visiting its website at https://www.formula-hd.ru/nskvAO/.

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Learn moreabout the Council's activities by visiting its website at https://www.formula-hd.ru/nskvAO/.

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