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Winter Fest

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> 4 100
festival’s participants
An interactive festival of winter sports, a blend of grand scale, visual splendor, and great opportunities for personal involvement.

Winter sports are very popular in the cities where SIBUR operates, which explains why the Winter Fest regularly draws large crowds. In the course of its cooperation with SIBUR, the team of the festival’s organizers has staged events in Blagoveshchensk and Svobodny (Amur Oblast), Dzerzhinsk and Kstovo (Nizhegorodskaya Oblast), Nizhnevartovsk (Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area), Noyabrsk and Muravlenko (Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug), Perm, Tobolsk, and Tomsk. Some of the participants included children from low-income families and large families with many children, children of SIBUR’s employees, students of sports schools and athletic clubs.

The focus of 2022 was on highlighting the festival's inclusiveness: the master classes in Tobolsk were attended by children from an inclusive center while those in Perm were taught to members of an ice hockey team made up of players with hearing disabilities. In Kstovo, the master classes were attended by children with the local social rehabilitation center. In addition, 2022 saw a first-ever range of master classes being taught to adult students.

The Festival’s 2023 edition was hosted by the cities of Nizhnekamsk and Tomsk. The two-day event in Nizhnekamsk was attended by nearly 400 junior athletes including budding ice hockey players and figure skaters, children from large families, students with learning disabilities from School 18, and wards of a local orphanage. Star athletes Alexander Guskov and Ilya Averbukh gave a series of master classes for children of different ages and varying skill levels.

Tomsk-based master classes taught by Alexey Yagudin and Yuri Butsayev were attended by disadvantaged children from Centers for children left without parental care, Centers for social assistance to families and children, Social rehabilitation centers, children from foster families, and children with special needs. In all, about 400 children have been able to take part in the festival and get exposed to new experiences with some of them putting on skates for the first time in their lives.

Star coaches

The children have been taught by star figure skaters of the national and international caliber, as well as by celebrity ice hockey players. Those who attended these classes are entitled to a certificate of completion with a star's autograph and are offered an opportunity to take part in a group photo session. The star instructors also give seminars and master classes to coaches from regional sports schools and clubs.

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