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This year, second- and third-year students from the Ust-Kut Institute of Water Transport joined RNG Snabzhenie crews for practical training. Eight cadets studying to become motormen and helmsmen have been working aboard the Boyets, Vitimets, Morion and Viktoriya-1.

The cadets were given real responsibilities from the outset and quickly settled into day-to-day work on board. Practical experience, combined with guidance from senior crew members, has helped them build the skills needed to work on modern river vessels.

RNG has provided another round of practical support for the settlement of Tas-Yuryakh in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), supplying the materials needed to prepare the site for a new rural health clinic.

The request came from the Mirninsky District administration and Mirny Central District Hospital. Over the weekend, around 300 cubic metres of rock fill—roughly 20 tipper-truck loads—were delivered to the site, allowing groundwork to move ahead.

Once completed, the clinic will add an important new piece of social infrastructure to Tas-Yuryakh.

The winners of this year’s international Ekologiya—Delo Kazhdogo (Russian for Environment is Everybody's Business) award have been announced. RNG has partnered with the initiative for five years running.

As part of an introductory practical training, first-year Oil and Gas Engineering students from the Mirny Polytechnic Institute, a branch of North-Eastern Federal University (NEFU), toured the Company’s production facilities.

The Company has provided funding to support large families of clergy members.

Clergy families traditionally have many children. Priests rely primarily on donations from parishioners for their income, and their families therefore often face serious financial difficulties. In addition, clergy members of the Diocese of Yakutia serve in remote northern uluses, or districts, of the Republic, where living conditions remain challenging.

RNG has donated to Kharyskhal (“Mercy”), a Yakutia-based charity supporting children with disabilities and additional health needs.

The funds will go towards cancer treatment for children across the region.

Kharyskhal works to give children with disabilities and additional health needs a better quality of life. Alongside running a range of social programmes, the foundation is helping to make Yakutia more inclusive and pioneering new ways of delivering tailored support to children who need it.

The Company helped stage this year’s Yhyаkh festival at the Kolomenskoye Museum Reserve in Moscow, contributing to the event’s funding and joining the celebrations.

Rooted in ancient traditions of fertility, Yhyаkh is traditionally celebrated at the summer solstice. Its Moscow edition has become a highlight of the capital’s cultural calendar.

Graduates of R.V. Lonkunov Secondary School No. 9 in the village of Tas-Yuryakh, the oldest school in Yakutia’s Mirninsky District, received a special send-off from RNG as they celebrated the end of their school years.

During the graduation ceremony, a company representative congratulated the Year 11 students and wished them success in their studies, future careers and the next stage of their lives. RNG also presented each graduate with a tablet.

The Company is continuing to pursue artificial reproduction of aquatic bioresources. RNG ecologists have released more than 550,000 fry of pelad into the Vilyuiskoye Water Reservoir. Pelad is also called northern whitefish; it is a valuable genus of the salmon family.

RNG Group companies have been helping replenish fish stocks in Yakutia for many years. Over the past eight years, they have released more than 4.5 million whitefish fry into the Republic’s rivers and reservoirs.

RNG has ranked fifth in the rating compiled by the Ministry of Ecology, Nature Management and Forestry of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) among the region’s extractive companies.

Yakutia has launched a new independent mechanism for assessing the environmental impact of industrial operations. The EcoRating of Subsoil Users is designed to increase transparency in corporate environmental practices and foster green competition across the region.