A business meeting was held by Igor Babushkin, Astrakhan Region Governor, and Nikolay Gorban, CPC General Director in Astrakhan on 10 November 2026. The participants discussed various issues of partnership between the international company and the region within the framework of the current Agreement on Socioeconomic Cooperation.The international Consortium's cooperation with the Astrakhan Region has lasted for more than 20 years. Currently, the cooperation is accomplished within the framework of a five-year Agreement signed in June 2024. The Company provides significant support to social projects in areas such as culture, education, health care, public transport, and sports, and also implements assistance programs for the most vulnerable population groups.
Under the Agreement, Consortium representatives, together with local administrations, annually conduct a preliminary analysis of needs in various social areas, determine a list of priority projects, funding volumes, and optimal timeframes for implementing charity projects based on the principles of targeting and territoriality.
In addition, the Environmental Awareness project “Let’s Save Our Country’s Environment”, focused on increasing the sturgeon population and environmental education of young people, and CPC to first-year schoolchildren, New Year and Christmas holidays together with CPC programs are being implemented in the Region on an annual basis.
In 2024, CPC allocated over 144.1 million rubles for charity purposes in the region. In 2025 - 150.6 million rubles. This year, in 2026, 110 million rubles has been allocated. Over the course of the company's partnership with the region, CPC has invested more than 1.7 billion rubles in charity projects in the Astrakhan Region. CPC paid over 9 billion rubles in taxes to the consolidated budget in the Astrakhan Region in 2024-2025. In total, more than 27 billion rubles have been transferred to the budget of the constituent entity of the Russian Federation since the company began operations.
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