II Festival "Novorossiysk Chimes” Held With CPC Support

On August 19, 2023, Novorossiysk Forum Square hosted the II classical music festival - "Novorossiysk Chimes". A large-scale five-hour gala concert on the Black Sea coast was held with the support of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium and in cooperation with the Autonomous Non-Profit Organization "Black Sea Symphony Orchestra".

The Novorossiysk Chimes sound in the open air of the hero-city for the second year, which suggests the birth of a new good tradition. This year, over 250 performers participated in the Festival, including the full Black Sea Symphony Orchestra conducted by Konstantin Milyoshkin and Alexei Pugachyov. Moscow violinists Sergei Pospelov and Tatiana Breslavskaya, accordionist Maxim Fyodorov, opera singers Tatiana Yeremina (Krasnodar) and Kirill Chursin (Rostov-on-Don) were the soloists. Famous symphonic works by Gioacchino Rossini, Edvard Grieg, Pal Abraham, Imre Kalman, Aram Khachaturian, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Dmitry Shostakovich and other famous composers, music from movies, opera arias and scenes from ballets, waltzes and tangos - about 50 compositions in total - were performed. The repertoire was selected taking into account the significant dates celebrated by Novorossiysk this year - the 185th anniversary of the founding of Novorossiysk, the 80th anniversary of the city's liberation from Nazi invaders, and the 50th anniversary of the awarding of the honorary title "Hero-City" to Novorossiysk.

Like last year, the Novorossiysk Chimes used collapsible, quick-erecting grandstands and a stage complex purchased for the city in 2021 by the Caspian Pipeline Consortium. Thanks to this, all Festival guests - and there were about 5 thousands of them - were comfortable, could see and hear well. Those who had no opportunity of attending the Forum Square in Novorossiysk that evening could watch the Festival on-line broadcast.

Support to culture and art is one of the leading aspects of CPC charity activity in the host regions. The Consortium’s charity projects and social programs in the hero-city are being implemented under the Cooperation Agreement with the Municipality signed in 2022 by CPC General Director Nikolay Gorban and Novorossiysk Mayor Andrey Kravchenko. The collaboration will soon continue with the annual "CPC to First Graders" project, followed by other traditional events.

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CPC Pipeline System is one of the major investment projects with foreign capital in energy sector in the CIS. The length of the Tengiz – Novorossiysk pipeline is 1,511 km. This route transports over two-thirds of all Kazakhstan export crude, as well as crude from Russian oil fields, including those in the Caspian Region. CPC Marine Terminal is equipped with three Single Point Moorings (SPM) that allow to load tankers safely at a significant distance offshore, also amid poor weather conditions.

CPC Shareholders: Federal Agency for State Property Management represented by Transneft (trust management) – 24%, CPC Company – 7%, KazmunayGas – 19%, Kazakhstan Pipeline Ventures LLC – 1.75%, Chevron Caspian Pipeline Consortium Company – 15%, LUKARCO B.V. – 12.5%, Mobil Caspian Pipeline Company – 7.5%, Rosneft-Shell Caspian Ventures Limited – 7.5%, BG Overseas Holding Limited – 2%, Eni International N.A. N.V. S.ar.l. – 2% and Oryx Caspian Pipeline LLC – 1.75%.

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