UNIQUE SPORTS-AND-LEISURE COMPLEX IN YUGRA IS BUILT WITH LUKOIL’S SUPPORT
Friday, September 16, 2016
Today, a festive ceremony dedicated to the opening of a unique sports-and-leisure facility, the Galaktika (Galaxy), constructed with PJSC LUKOIL’s support, was held in Kogalym. The ceremony was attended by LUKOIL’s First Vice-President Vladimir Nekrasov, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Olga Golodets and the Governor of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District-Yugra Natalya Komarova. The construction was sponsored by the Regional Social Programs Fund “Our Future” established by LUKOIL’s President Vagit Alekperov.
The Galaktika complex features a world-class aquarium with an acrylic tunnel, the longest in Russia. It is sixty-one meter long and is composed of twenty-nine fish tanks. The largest one holds 3.5 million liters of water. It is home to eighteen sharks and three giant morays. The aquarium has a tropical coast, a rain forest, coral reefs, zones of homeland rivers and lakes. Aside from that, the Galaktika complex includes a subtropical conservatory consisting of seven gardens with 158 different plant species, a water park and the Flow Rider amusement ride (artificial wave) for professional and beginner surfers, a family supermarket, a cinema theater, a fitness center, a food court and a shopping mall. The visitors are invited to try out the bowling alley and the indoor skating rink. The parking lot is designed for 650 cars. The total area of the complex exceeds 30 thousand square meters.
A sculpture dedicated to LUKOIL’s 25th anniversary was opened in Kogalym. It is a gift to the citizens of Kogalym from the Company’s President. Twenty-five drops of oil symbolize LUKOIL’s quarter-century anniversary and the heroic work of the West-Siberian oilmen.
Vladimir Nekrasov, Olga Golodets and Natalya Komarova spent some time at the Tsvetik-Semitsvetik (Wishing Flower) innovative kindergarten (whose construction was financed by the Regional Social Programs Fund “Our Future”), visited the museum and the exhibition complex, as well as the Kogalym city health center. Construction and reconstruction of these facilities was performed under the Cooperation Agreement between LUKOIL and the Yugra Government.
