Surgutskaya GRES is the largest power producer in Russia, supplying the districts of West Siberia and the Urals with electric power.
As an efficient producer of the electric power necessary for the society, Unipro PJSC is well aware of its economic, environmental and social responsibility.
Unipro PJSC shapes its business around a reasonable balance of shareholders' interests and assurance of a reliable and socially and environmentally safe operation of its production facilities.
The Company implements a comprehensive approach to the management of labour, development of its employees, environmental and industrial safety, and support of populations in the areas of its presence.
In 2005, the Company joined the UN Global Compact as the most ambitious sustainability initiative for business. Unipro PJSC confirms its commitments to honour human rights, employment relations, environmental protection, and anti-corruption undertakings.
The Company’s key shareholder — Uniper Group — treats sustainable development as the overarching priority and integrates it in all aspects and areas of its activities. Uniper Group has developed and approved the Group Sustainable Development Strategy based on the UN Goals (SDGs) by identifying the areas of highest relevance to its business.
Obviously, employees are the Company’s essential asset. Business development fully depends on the professionalism, high responsibility, and good practices of the employees. Unipro PJSC power facilities employ professionals with vast production experience and extensive engineering expertise.
The Company’s management strives to use the entire potential and competences of its employees as much as possible by creating comfortable working conditions, providing them with continuous professional and personal development opportunities, and taking care of their health and safety.
The Company’s staff management system covers a set of HR issues concerning all categories of employees — from workers and specialists to managers. The Company’s activities in this area are governed by a set of bylaws that ensure the transparency and impartiality of HR decisions.
In 2019, Unipro PJSC had 4,585 employees.
One of the Company’s top priorities is to create a balanced team in terms of gender and age. This approach will enable the Company to ensure the continuity of personnel and in-house wellbeing and preserve and pass professional experience.
Unipro PJSC ensures equal rights for men and women in terms of employment, promotion and social benefits. A larger share of males in the headcount is due to the peculiarities of the Company’s business.
The Company consistently develops a system for employee training and development as well as forms a succession pool. This year, we have been focusing on the development of young specialists and cooperation with youth associations. We are building our future today
Unipro PJSC total headcount, persons*
Priority areas of Unipro PJSC staff management strategy
Average number of employees of Unipro PJSC branches, persons*
Personnel structure by age in 2019, %
Personnel structure by gender in 2019, %
Management structure by gender in 2019, %
Staff turnover rate, %
| 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Moscow Representative Office | 9.1 | 10.5 | 14.0 |
| Berezovskaya GRES | 17.5 | 11.0 | 12.1 |
| Smolenskaya GRES | 9.9 | 10.1 | 9.2 |
| Surgutskaya GRES-2 | 7.6 | 7.9 | 8.4 |
| Shaturskaya GRES | 5.2 | 6.1 | 4.8 |
| Yaivinskaya GRES | 11.3 | 9.2 | 10.8 |
| Engineering | - | - | 5.7 |
| Total at Unipro PJSC | 10.3 | 8.8 | 9.3 |
In 2019, HR costs amounted to RUB 6.8 bln, which corresponds to 65% of the Company’s controlled expenses.
The professional development of Unipro PJSC employees is based on high-quality and advanced training of employees.
In 2019, the priority areas in employees' professional potential development were as follows:
Mandatory training enables the employees to upgrade their skills and acquire knowledge required to perform their job duties.
HR costs, RUB mln
Structure of HR costs in 2019, %
Results of Unipro PJSC employees' mandatory training in 2019
|
Training in accordance with the requirements of state standards and rules |
Short-term training |
Further training (at least once every 5 years) |
Retraining |
Total (by branch) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moscow Representative Office | 273 | 277 | 11 | 10 | 571 |
| Berezovskaya GRES | 813 | 149 | 74 | 0 | 1,036 |
| Smolenskaya GRES | 253 | 63 | 204 | 61 | 581 |
| Surgutskaya GRES-2 | 1,088 | 233 | 180 | 27 | 1,528 |
| Shaturskaya GRES | 505 | 4 | 89 | 41 | 639 |
| Yaivinskaya GRES | 353 | 63 | 63 | 19 | 498 |
| Total (by type of training) | 3,285 | 789 | 621 | 158 | 4,853 |
The programme was launched in 2014 and provides for the evaluation of participants by means of tests, interviews, and evaluation centres involving follow-up feedback and development of personal development plans.
The objective of the programme is to bring up successors for the key positions.
In 2019, 210 new participants were evaluated, 174 participants were re-evaluated. The share of programme participants appointed to key positions in the Company amounted to 76% at the target value of 70%. 86% of programme participants with the assigned “High Potential” rating work under personal development plans. The target value of 80% has been exceeded.
Results of the “Succession Pool Management” programme in 2019
|
Key positions filled |
Employee from the succession pool appointed |
Percentage of filling key positions using the succession pool, % |
Participants with high potential |
Personal development plan |
Percentage of employees with the “High Potential” rating, working under personal development plans, % |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berezovskaya GRES | 18 | 13 | 72 | 67 | 58 | 87 |
| Smolenskaya GRES | 9 | 7 | 78 | 45 | 41 | 91 |
| Surgutskaya GRES-2 | 15 | 13 | 87 | 113 | 96 | 85 |
| Shaturskaya GRES | 5 | 2 | 40 | 40 | 35 | 88 |
| Yaivinskaya GRES | 4 | 4 | 100 | 29 | 22 | 76 |
| Total (by type of training) | 51 | 39 | 76 | 294 | 252 | 86 |
“Unipro Leader” represents a cycle of training programmes for managers at different levels.
In 2019, under this programme, managers received training in the following areas:
Under the EMBA programme “Operational Excellence in the Digital Age”, 16 managers of the production function and succession pool members to fill management positions received training in the following five modules:
The survey of participants demonstrated that they rate the programme usefulness for career in the energy sector at a level of 8.6 out of 10 (in average).
In 2019, conscious safety culture continued to develop. The objective of the programme is to change personal attitude of employees towards labour safety through the development of conscious safety culture and generation of commitment to safety at Unipro. 85 managers of the branches received training.
In 2019, joint professional excellence contests were held for the first time with the participation of composite teams of CCGT and STU operating personnel of Berezovskaya GRES, Surgutskaya GRES-2, Smolenskaya GRES, Yaivinskaya GRES and Shaturskaya GRES of Unipro PJSC.
The first aid response step was held in a new format. When accomplishing the step, the employees independently provided first aid under realistic production conditions.
During the contests, the participants used the computerised simulator and analytical complex of Power Unit 410 MW CCGT Siemens with SPPA-T-3000 DCS. The CCGT operating personnel of Yaivinskaya GRES had the opportunity to use the simulator to train once a quarter.
In total, 44 employees of the branches took part in the joint CCGT and STU professional excellence contests.
In 2019, results of the involvement survey performed at the end of 2018 were analysed, action plans to ensure involvement increase were developed.
The branches analysed issues in various fields: e.g. “Management communicates openly and fairly” (Surgutskaya GRES-2), “Interaction between the functions is well established” (Berezovskaya GRES, Yaivinskaya GRES), “My salary corresponds to my contribution to company operations” (Smolenskaya GRES), “My career prospects in the company are rather bright” (Shaturskaya GRES).
The management team analysed the following issue relevant for the entire Company, having one of the lowest results: “We have enough employees to achieve the targets”. Focus groups regarding this issue were conducted in the branches. They were aimed at revealing the causes of such low results. Among those causes, the employees mentioned social conditions at power plant locations, a significant scope of tasks, as well as poor training of young specialists.
The working group of the management team focused on processes reducing the load on employees. The working group distinguished four directions and developed a corresponding action plan, which is currently implemented and includes:
An involved employee is an employee speaking well of a company, wishing to work in it and willing to put additional effort in complicated situations.
Alongside with the programmes mentioned above that have already become traditional for Unipro PJSC, the Company implemented a number of other training projects for its functions in the reporting year:
for employees of the Asset Reliability, Fire and Environmental Safety of the branches;
Results of the training in TOP-5+ special areas
| Branch |
Height/ scaffolds |
Electrical installations |
Confined space |
Hoisting devices |
Hot works |
Total (by branch) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berezovskaya GRES | individual participants | 130 | 52 | 163 | 9 | 99 | 453 |
| group participants | 9 | 5 | 12 | 1 | 9 | 36 | |
| Surgutskaya GRES-2 | individual participants | 181 | 332 | 255 | 61 | 143 | 972 |
| group participants | 6 | 10 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 32 | |
| Yaivinskaya GRES | individual participants | 164 | 86 | 66 | 41 | 40 | 397 |
| group participants | 22 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 50 | |
| Shaturskaya GRES | individual participants | 226 | 117 | 229 | 242 | 158 | 972 |
| group participants | 37 | 18 | 29 | 42 | 23 | 149 | |
| Smolenskaya GRES | individual participants | 116 | 35 | 53 | 12 | 60 | 276 |
| group participants | 20 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 10 | 49 | |
| Total (by type of training) | 817 | 622 | 766 | 365 | 500 | 3,070 | |
Transparent and honest relations with employees lay at the basis of Unipro PJSC HR policy.
Fair remuneration, growth and development opportunities, and social partnership require mutual respect and consideration of each other’s interests between the Company employees and management, as well as compliance with the laws and other regulations by the parties.
Payroll expenses, RUB mln
The principal regulatory instruments of Unipro PJSC governing the relations between the employer and the employees are the Collective Bargaining Agreements of the Company branches (renewed for 2018−2020) and Compensation and Benefits Regulations. These documents have been developed based on the Labour Code of the Russian Federation subject to the principles of social and labour relationship regulation and regional peculiarities of the Company branches.
Unipro PJSC employees' salary comprises a fixed and a variable parts. The fixed part is set depending on the employee’s qualification and position, while bonuses and incentives are paid depending on performance.
The Company’s reward system is shaped around the “performance-based payment” principle. Employees' bonuses are directly dependent on the accomplishment of specific tasks in securing the predetermined key performance indicators (KPIs). These indicators are set for all employees at all levels, including the Chief Executive Officer, and depend on the position.
Individual key performance indicators (KPIs) are set for employees of the executive office and for the management and directors of the branches on an annual basis and fixed in the performance management forms. The annual bonus depends on the achievement of key financial indicators of the Company and individual KPIs.
SMART principles are used to set KPIs. This approach makes the system transparent and comprehensible, as it enables an employee and his/her superior to set priority tasks, outline evaluation criteria and timeframe, and therefore, rule out the risk of partiality in evaluating the KPIs in the future. When an employee realises that there is a direct correlation between his/her performance and the amount of the bonus payable thereto, this serves as a powerful incentive ensuring the precision and transparency of the system, and ultimately a fair remuneration.
Payroll expenses account for 73% of the total HR costs.
Payroll expenses include all expenses associated with the payment of salaries, with due regard to estimated liabilities. At year-end 2019, the Company’s expenses associated with the payment of salaries dropped by 7.6% as compared to 2018 and amounted to RUB 5,280 mln (50% of the Company’s controlled expenses). The main effect regarding the decrease in the expenses associated with the payment of salaries in 2019 is associated with the optimisation of HR costs and different payout period under long-term incentive programmes.
The Company monitors the regional labour markets on an ongoing basis, including by taking part in the salary overviews conducted by major global independent companies (including E&Y, PWC, Hay Group, etc.).
Overall, the employees' average salary is similar to salaries paid by companies of the same sector in respective regions of the branches.
Employees' official salaries are subject to indexation and may also be increased depending on employee KPIs in the relevant period within the limits of the payroll budget.
The salary revision principles are as follows:
This approach to measuring salaries provides each individual employee with a clear idea of the matters within his/ her responsibility area and of the things he/she needs to do to secure a high evaluation of performance and, consequently, a higher salary, and enables the Company to recruit and retain top-end professionals.
Unipro PJSC gives a lot of attention to non-financial motivation of its employees.
The Company management traditionally values excellence and outstanding performance on the part of Unipro PJSC employees, who receive the relevant awards from the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation for their achievements. In 2019, ten employees of the Company earned the awards.
In addition, 95 employees earned Unipro PJSC awards in 2019:
Recruitment at the Company is mostly effected by the HR Unit without engagement of recruitment agencies. More than a half (57%) of vacancies were filled through internal movement.
Vacancy filling in 2019, %
In 2019, as part of promotion of the comprehensive youth, students and young specialists management programme, the Company assumed a set of measures:
Through project area expansion, the number of active permanent participants of the Unipro PJSC youth associations increased by 20% and exceeded 100 people in 2019. In 2019, they implemented 14 projects.
Projects implemented by youth associations in 2019, %
It has become a good tradition to hold the annual forum of Unipro PJSC youth associations. The platform has proved to be an effective tool for experience sharing among young specialists of the branches; it enables communication with the top management of the Company, and more holistic comprehension of the Company’s business functioning in general, opening prospects for further development of the youth.
Forum format:
70 participants
2 full-time days
Unipro PJSC provides its employees with a full social package, guarantees and compensations stipulated by the law (e.g., increased salary for employees working in harmful and/or hazardous work environment, working at night, etc.), as well as additional benefits, guaranties and compensations, such as:
The branches also implement the programmes of provision of an interest-free loan for housing improvements, service at the laboratories for psychophysiological examination, provision of Company transport, etc.
The Company strives to provide its employees with the best health insurance schemes. In 2019, the Company jointly with an insurance broker carried out a detailed analysis of providers of voluntary health insurance (VHI) services, survey of Company employees as regards their satisfaction with medical services. The implementation of such measures enabled the selection of a new VHI provider for 2019−2021 and enhancing of medical services available under the insurance programme.
The Company strives both to provide its employees with stability and development at present, and to ensure a comparable quality of life in the future after they retire. The Company’s non-state pension system (NPS) was implemented in 2005 and comprises two basic pension schemes: corporate and parity.
The corporate scheme extends to employees of Company branches and represents a variation of the non-state pension scheme when an employee retiring due to old age receives money transferred by the Company to such employee’s account with a nonstate pension fund (NPF) from this NPF. The amount transferred to the NPF depends on the official salary and length of service with the Company.
Participation in the parity scheme enables the employees to have a major influence on their future pension amount. The programme is based on the joint involvement of the Company and its employees (co-financing in equal shares on a monthly basis) in money savings for the payment of a supplementary non-state pension benefit.
In 2020, Unipro PJSC will continue to engage its employees in the parity pension scheme.
Unipro PJSC employees participating in the parity plan
In 2019, with a view to contribute to housing improvements, Unipro PJSC Management Board approved the lists of 43 employees who were offered to make agreements for the provision of an interest-free target loan for the purchase (construction) of housing accommodations and for the repayment of the principal on the mortgage loan.
The categories of employees enjoying the priority right to corporate support are as follows:
The Company has a friendly corporate culture and an atmosphere of appreciation, care and recognition of everyone’s achievements.
The Company’s corporate culture is based on the “Unipro Path” concept geared towards staff capacity building and support and motivation of employees.
The Company continues to promote the healthy lifestyle culture among its employees thorough the implementation of various sport and development programmes.
In 2019, a combined team of all the branches and the Representative Office in Moscow of Unipro PJSC took part in a charity run of the Moscow marathon in favour of children with disabilities. The project was called “Blagobeguny” (Runners for Welfare). For several months, the members of the combined team prepared to take their distances of 10 or 42 km; in parallel, a fund-raising campaign was carried out to meet specific needs of children with disabilities, for whose favour the marathon participants ran.
A webpage was created for each “Blagobeguny” runner, where personal stories of the sportsman and the child, for whom the runner raised funds, were posted. The sportsmen were actively supported by their colleagues throughout the Company, both individually and as entire departments.
On 22 September, the Moscow marathon was held, before the commencement of which, participants of the corporate team met with the children and presented them with memorable gifts.
The experience of participation in the marathon as a single team of Unipro PJSC was highly estimated by the employees, and it will be continued, for sure.
As part of the health lifestyle culture promotion in the Company, corporate trainings in volleyball, football, basketball, and ping pong were organised in the Representative Office in Moscow and the branches in 2019.
The Company goes on developing health lifestyle programmes for both employees and their family members, especially children.
In autumn 2019, traditional family sport events were held in the branches and the Moscow Representative Office of Unipro PJSC.
Children of employees of the Company’s Representative Office in Moscow felt themselves real superheroes, overcoming multiple tests on the way to salvation of our main character — Uniproshka.
At Shaturskaya GRES branch, on 7 September, the “Unipro Galaxy” sport party for children was held in the city park. Children and their parents took part in relay races, contests and sport missions.
Berezovskaya GRES held a family party named “Unipro-Coloured Sky”, where plant employees and their families took part in various contests and competitions.
In 2019, a family party named “Unipro-Coloured Sky” took place at Berezovskaya GRES. The party was organised to celebrate the 3rd anniversary of the Company’s brand and Day of Family, Love and Fidelity.
The presentation of a plan of landscaping of a wasteland behind the plant parking lot was the main event of the party. On the proposal of the youth association, it is planned to develop a recreational area for the staff there: to arrange a stage, benches for spectators, vandal-proof devices for physical exercises, sites for mini football, volleyball and basketball, jogging and bicycle lanes, as well as playgrounds and amusement facilities for children. The site was already cleaned from construction waste, the youth association arranged for planting a pine parkway of employees' family trees, and, on 22 June, powermen took part in a voluntary clean-up event: to clean the site, remove deadwood and water the young plants.
One of the main tasks of a family party is to familiarise powermen’s family members with the specifics of work of their parents at the shops of Berezovskaya GRES. For this purpose, each plant shop prepared its location, where it described the shop role in generation of electricity and heat in an intelligible form:
While the adults listened to a concert of the Volnitsa band from Krasnoyarsk, their children occupied the entertainment areas. An area for drawings on the pavement was arranged in front of the plant; a bit further, in the shadow of trees, young artists painted in water-colours; they could drive various electric cars, try face painting and play ancient Russian games: lapta, gorodki, salki (game of tags) and klassiki (hopscotch).
The youth association organised a charity fair at the party to raise funds for purchasing school supplies for children from a charity school. They addressed their colleagues with a request to bring pastry and fruitand-berry desserts for the fair. More than 20 people responded to the request. They raised over RUB 13,000 for 1 hour of work.
The team of Surgutskaya GRES-2 took part in the City Football Championship, the city sports and athletic contest, a sport event named “Steel Character”, and friendly hockey matches.
The team of Yaivinskaya GRES took part in the Urals Cup for strength sports, the field-and-track relay race dedicated to Victory Day, the Perm international marathon, the sports and athletic contest of the Electricians Trade Union. Besides, the plant has an active sport life: a WRPF benchpress open championship was organised, and branch departments took part in sports and athletic contests in 12 sports throughout the year.
Berezovskaya GRES carried out a sports and athletic contest dedicated to Victory Day, an athlete day under the slogan “I Am Sport and Energy” at Lake Ingol, a tourist meeting at the bank of Lake Linevo for employees and their families, a beach volleyball tournament on Sharypovo City Day. Besides, the combined team of the branch took part in the 5th sports and athletic contest among enterprises and institutions of Sharypovo.
The #YAENERGIYA (I Am Energy) sport competitions took place at Smolenskaya GRES. The branch employees and their family members participated in a bicycle race for 8 km and a field-and-track relay race for 4 km. A 300-metre race was organised for the youngest sportsmen. Russian Ski Track 2019 competitions, XIV Winter Sports and Athletic Contest in seven sports (mini-football, volleyball, street ball, ski race, chess, ping pong, kettlebell lifting) were carried out among the branch functions.
In September, Shaturskaya GRES took part in the all-Russian running day — “Nation's Cross-Country Race”.
The Company does not only focus on sport events, but also on events contributing to the development and support of its HSE values.
In 2019, the Company held a New Year party for children of employees of the Representative Office in Moscow at the area of the Izmaylovo Kremlin. The children had to pass a quest to take their presents from resentful Baba Yaga, who had stolen the sack with presents. Uniproshka told children about safety rules during winter entertainments.
In March 2019, Shaturskaya GRES celebrated the “Farewell to Winter. Maslenitsa” festival.
Employees of Surgutskaya GRES-2 took part in city voluntary clean-up events and a voluntary clean-up at the water-storage pond bank.
Enhanced health and safety of employees is a key component of the Company’s development. The Unipro PJSC occupational safety strategic vision 2019−2021 will be achieved by securing the occupational health and safety targets and implementing the priority initiatives.
Unipro PJSC Occupational Safety Strategy 2019−2021
STRATEGIC VISION
International-level safety of the work environment, health and safety of the employees are the core values of Unipro PJSC corporate culture
In 2019, our target was to ensure the work environment, when each worker of the Company or a contractor can be sure that his/her life and health are safe irrespective of the workplace (office or production site).
We secured our strategic target: zero workplace fatalities. Total recordable incident frequency (TRIF) amounted to 0.39 with a threshold value of <1.75. Meanwhile, the number of incidents involving lost time injuries reduced from 10 to 7, as compared to a similar period in 2018, and the Berezovskaya GRES Power Unit No. 3 RRW project recorded zero incidents involving lost time injuries.
One of the key results of the reporting year is securing of a strategic target: zero workplace fatalities for Company’s own and contractors' employees.
Total recordable incident frequency (TRIF) reduced by 38% against the previous year and amounted to 0.39 for Unipro PJSC (including projects of Engineering Branch) with the threshold value of <1.75, which is one of the best results among business units of Uniper Group at the end of 2019.
Injury risk mitigation, safety culture improvement and special assessment of work environment were the main targets of occupational health and safety activities in 2019.
Total recordable incident frequency (TRIF)
| 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Threshold value | 2.38 | 1.9 | 1.75 |
| Actual | 0.62 | 0.63 | 0.39 |
| Unipro PJSC | 0.81 | 0.52 | 0.74 |
| Projects of Engineering Branch | 0.22 | 0.80 | 0 |
TRIF dynamics including Engineering Branch projects in 2019
TRIF dynamics net of Engineering Branch Unipro PJSC projects (Berezovskaya GRES — Power Unit No. 3, Fuel Receiving Station) in 2019
TRIF dynamics of Engineering Branch Unipro PJSC (Berezovskaya GRES — Power Unit No. 3, Fuel Receiving Station) in 2019
Unipro PJSC key occupational health and safety indicators for 2018 and 2019*
The number of lost time injuries reduced from 10 in 2018 to 7 in 2019. For the entire reporting year, the Repair and Refurbishment Works Project of Berezovskaya GRES Power Unit No. 3 operated without lost time injuries, and, in December 2019, the Engineering Branch projects (Berezovskaya GRES — Power Unit No. 3, Fuel Receiving Station, including contractors' employees) achieved 11 mln man hours without occupational injuries (since 25 July 2018).
Distribution of total recordable incidents (TRI) involving lost time injuries in 2019
6 out of 7 incidents resulting in injuries recorded by Unipro PJSC in 2019 involved Company employees and 1 — contractor employees. All the incidents resulted in hand or finger injuries of workers.
In 2019, the number of near misses resulting in suspended work reduced 2 times.
Most near misses recorded in 2019 were related to works at height.
All incidents involving lost time injuries, near misses and accidents that occurred within the Company were investigated, with root causes determined, corrective/pro-active actions developed, and notifications provided to the relevant Company and contractor employees. Two reports on occupational health and safety with overview of incidents at Uniper and Unipro were issued and analysed with employees.
Distribution of total recordable incidents (TRI) by branch and staff of the Company and contractors in 2019
Distribution of total recordable incidents (TRI) by immediate cause
Distribution of near misses resulting in suspended work (by branch)
Distribution of near misses resulted in suspended work (by type of works)
The Company uses new approaches and solutions when selecting personal protective equipment (PPE). Specifically, in the course of procurement of corporate special protective clothes resistant to electric arc impacts, the commission included representatives of branches and shop-floor union organisations of Unipro PJSC, whose opinion was decisive in products selection. In 2019, participants of youth associations were involved in selection of special protective footwear. It is planned to use this approach for selection of other PPE as well.
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The Occupational Health and Safety Enhancement Plan for 2019 was implemented in full. Additional measures were also implemented to develop competencies and involve occupational health and safety staff.
As part of the Occupational Health and Safety Enhancement Plan for 2019, the following key measures were implemented.
All occupational health and safety measures scheduled by the branches for the reporting period were taken in full.
Occupational health and safety expenses, RUB thousand
Occupational health and safety expenses, RUB thousand per employee
Allocation of expenses by activity type in 2019, %
To improve the working conditions of the employees, to identify harmful and hazardous factors of the working environment and to assess the level of their impact on the employees, special assessment of work environment was held at 2,900 workplaces of the Company.
According to the special assessment of work environment at the Company, it was confirmed that there are no workplaces with harmful and/or hazardous working conditions with classes 3.3 and 3.4.
To further mitigate the impact of harmful and/or hazardous factors of the working environment, the Workplace Working Conditions Improvement Plan will be developed in 2020.
Distribution of workplaces by class of working conditions,
%
Distribution of employees by class of working conditions,
%
Within the framework of the Occupational Health and Safety Plan, the following activities are planned to be performed in 2020:
The main occupational health and safety tasks in 2020 will include transition to a new level of managing the occupational health and safety management system and certification for compliance with the requirements of ISO 45001−2018.
Unipro PJSC operates 39 hazardous production facilities (HPFs) registered in the state register as required by Federal Law No. 116-FZ dated 21 July 1997 “On Industrial Safety of Hazardous Industrial Facilities” and assigned a relevant hazard class — Registration Certificate А58−70689.
Distribution of HPF, hardware, buildings and structures, and hydraulic structures in 2019
| HPF | Hardware |
Buildings and structures |
Hydraulic structures |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yaivinskaya GRES | 8 | 546 | 137 | 12 |
| Surgutskaya GRES-2 | 6 | 1,045 | 219 | 1 |
| Berezovskaya GRES | 6 | 950 | 187 | 26 |
| Shaturskaya GRES | 14 | 729 | 460 | 1 |
| Smolenskaya GRES | 5 | 379 | 108 | 3 |
| Total | 39 | 3,649 | 1,111 | 43 |
All the HPFs are insured in accordance with Federal Law No. 225-FZ dated 27 July 2010 “On Mandatory Third-Party Liability Insurance of the Owner of a Hazardous Production Facility against Damage Resulting from an Accident at the Hazardous Production Facility” and the current rules for mandatory third-party liability insurance of the owner of a hazardous production facility against damage resulting from an accident at the hazardous production facility.
Regarding the HPF of hazard class II where hazardous substances are produced, used, processed, generated, stored, transported, destroyed in the quantities specified in Appendix 2 to the said Federal Law, industrial safety declarations (hereinafter referred to as the “ISDs”) were developed, safety expert review of ISDs was conducted, opinions of safety expert reviews of ISDs were entered into the state register of opinions, ISDs were entered into the state register of declarations.
The Company ensures control over the operation of HPFs in accordance with Unipro PJSC Regulation on the Process Control over Compliance with the Industrial Safety Requirements at Hazardous Production Facilities (approved by Order of the CEO No. 145 dated 2 October 2018) through a four-step process as per the annual production control plan.
HPF distribution by hazard class
To ensure safe operation of HPFs, 327 expert reviews of industrial safety were conducted in 2019 as per the schedule, aimed at extending the lifetime of 295 technical devices and 32 buildings and structures operated at the HPFs.
In accordance with the approved production programmes, comprehensive activities continue to be performed, aimed at bringing the HPFs in compliance with the requirements of the Federal Rules and Regulations in industrial safety: “Safety Regulations for Chemically Hazardous Production Facilities” (hereinafter referred to as the “ChHPF FRR”); “Code of Industrial Safety of Hazardous Production Facilities Where Equipment Operating Under Excessive Pressure is Used (hereinafter referred to as the “EOuP FRR”). The measures planned for 2019 were taken in full.
To ensure safe and reliable operation of HPFs, compliance with the legal requirements, and timely planning and scheduling as well as performance and control of diagnostic and routine procedures by Unipro PJSC, the Company continued implementing the Industrial Safety Management Automated Information System (ISMAIS) in 2019.
With regard to the experience of operation of the ISMAIS operating elements, works aimed at upgrading and setting the following modules were performed: diagnostic procedure and routine operation management, events, control charts, planning and scheduling, regulatory documentation stock.
The “Electrical Equipment” module was implemented, ensuring generating and updating the information on the major power electrical equipment, which allows for ensuring planning and scheduling, fulfilment and control over timely performance of routine repair works and technical examination.
Consistent modernisation of the ISMAIS enables Unipro PJSC to ensure a more efficient management of industrial safety business processes, reveal and correct all irregularities promptly, and plan its process safety ensuring efforts.
The ISMAIS enables Unipro PJSC to:
In 2019, within the framework of government oversight, Unipro PJSC was inspected on 12 occasions, which is 36.8% less than in 2018. However, the total number of revealed violations of the mandatory legislation decreased by 55.1% when compared to 2018.
Number of inspections of Unipro PJSC conducted within the framework of government oversight
Number of violations revealed by oversight authorities during various inspections of Unipro PJSC facilities within the framework of government oversight/control implemented (not due yet)
The Company carries out its activities in strict compliance with the requirements of legislation of the Russian Federation in ensuring security of fuel and energy sector facilities to prevent the entry of violators into the Company’s facilities to commit unlawful interference acts.
Within the framework of implementing the investment programmes in the reporting period, the works on designing, upgrading, and reconstruction of security engineering and technical devices and improvement of the physical security system of the facilities were continued using stateof-the-art technologies. Thus, Surgutskaya GRES-2 branch commissioned the radar system for perimeter intruder detection that allows for carrying out control with a larger range of detection in all weather conditions.
To increase the level of antiterrorism protection, security of the Company’s branch facilities was inspected with the participation of competent authorities. To test the performance of the physical protection systems of facilities, the Company held training activities jointly with the representatives of local offices of the Federal Security Service, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and EMERCOM of Russia that involved the testing of procedures to implement legal requirements to the provision of security at the facilities of the fuel and energy complex.
In the reporting period, no unlawful interference acts were recorded at the Company’s facilities.
Throughout the year, the activities aimed at ensuring readiness for accomplishing civil defence tasks and emergency response were systematically performed.
The Company focused on drilling the actions of the management and plant employees. Nearly 70 drills and training sessions were conducted with the participation of 3,360 employees. Nonregular emergency rescue teams (NRERTs) of the branches, fire departments and professional emergency rescue teams providing emergency and rescue services were engaged to take part in the drills.
In 2019, a course of training and certification of the NRERTs for search and rescue operations was completed. All the plants certified the NRERTs, and 25 Company employees were qualified as lifeguards.
There is still a high level of the fire brigades' response to fire hazards at the branches. The fire brigades include a total of 303 employees. Taking into account acquisition and putting on alert of the new fire truck with a high-pressure pump based on KAMAZ at Berezovskaya GRES, the total number of fire-fighting and special-purpose machinery increased up to 22 units.
During 2019, government oversight authorities conducted scheduled and unscheduled inspections of compliance with the established requirements. Following the inspections of Shaturskaya, Smolenskaya and Yaivinskaya GRES by the Oversight Activity Departments of the local offices of EMERCOM of Russia, the plants were recognised to be fully complying with the requirements of the legislation in civil defence and emergency response.
In the reporting period, a civil defence shelter at Yaivinskaya GRES was commissioned, where over 300 people can be sheltered at the same time from military threats, technogenic and natural emergency consequences.
Taking into account the increase in the hazard class of the hydraulic structures at Smolenskaya GRES, works to create a local alarm system (LAS) for the staff were performed at Smolenskaya GRES. The LAS refurbishment works performed at Yaivinskaya GRES ensure complete coverage of the plant staff when warning of emergency threats. The educational and methodological course in civil defence and emergency response created at Yaivinskaya GRES allows training of the plant staff on the rules of behaviour in emergencies.
Throughout the year, the Company branches took an active part in review contests conducted by the local offices of EMERCOM of Russia, according to the results of which Shaturskaya GRES took the first place for the best maintenance of civil defence shelters and the third place for the best maintenance of the training and material resources in civil defence and emergency response among the enterprises of the Moscow Region. Surgutskaya GRES-2 won prizes in similar contests among the enterprises of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area — Yugra, and earned three award diplomas from Surgut administration in civil defense and emergency response, including for the best civil defence shelter and for the best non-regular emergency rescue team.
The operational excellence (OE) system is one of the tools implemented by the Company to become a leader in excellence. The Company’s OE system is a business management approach based on the combination of processes and optimisation tools for such processes aimed at the maximum use of available resources and loss control. The Company’s strategic objective in this area is to make OE part of the culture, to turn it into everybody’s conduct, to integrate it into the Company’s DNA.
To achieve that objective, it is necessary to adhere to the following key principles of the OE system:
The priority technical growth areas of the OE system in 2018−2022 are:
Increasing
productivity in repairs
Reducing the cost
of production
The OE system framework included three branches in 2019 — Surgutskaya GRES-2, Berezovskaya GRES, and Shaturskaya GRES; Yaivinskaya GRES and Smolenskaya GRES are planned to be included in 2020.
As a result of implementation of the OE system in 2018 and 2019, 1,030 employees were trained on the OE basic instruments, over 300 optimisation initiatives were developed in the following major areas: increasing staff productivity in repairs, optimisation of equipment repair strategies, reduction of expenses on overtime work of repair staff, fuel efficiency upgrading, improvement of working conditions and occupational safety. Pilot projects were launched with the application of the following digitalisation tools: video analytics in repairs and stabilisation of the process parameters using control cards.
In 2020, we plan to continue developing technical streams of the OE system, while additionally focusing on improving the cultural dimension and developing the staff competence. This will allow us to keep and to multiply the achieved result, to ensure continuous improvement of the Company’s financial performance.
Unipro views protection of the environment as a prerequisite for doing business as a going concern.
The objective of Unipro PJSC environmental policy is to define the framework for the Company’s business and commitments in various environmental areas subject to the requirements of ISO 14001:2015. These are decisions regulating solutions for nature protection, mitigation of adverse environmental impact, management of environmental risks, and liaison with stakeholders.
Unipro PJSC implements a comprehensive approach to environmental safety management based on the best practices implemented both inside the Company and beyond.
To implement the tasks set out in the environmental policy, the Company has adopted an environmental strategy that is updated on an annual basis and provides for the planning and scheduling of environmental protection activities for the next three years. In particular, it provides for:
The Company’s environmental management system (EMS) uses the logic of the Plan-Do-Check-Act (PDCA) management cycle.
Appropriate responses to environmental issues, risks and opportunities have been designed for each Company’s branch, offering a long-term programme to improve environmental efficiency and enable upgrading to the best available technologies for addressing the environmental risk.
In late 2019, Unipro PJSC successfully passed a re-certification audit for compliance with the new version of ISO 14001:2015 international standard in respect of electric and heat power generation, heat power transportation. The audit was conducted by the Russian Register Certification Association, accredited by international certification authorities — members of the International Accreditation Forum (IAF). The certificate obtained is valid until 13 December 2022.
The environmental SWOT analysis highlights internal and
external factors and assesses their mutual impacts. The
procedure for environmental SWOT analysis is set out in the
Planning Rules for the Environmental Management System
(EMS) (STO No. PTU-R.04).
This SWOT analysis represents a step towards transition
to the international EMS standard under the updated
version of ISO 14001:2015, which provides for a risk-based
approach.
Supervision of the EMS and its continuous improvement is effected through internal audits and regular reviews of reports from branches by specialists at the Company executive office.
The main assessment tools used by the branches are industrial environmental control (IEC) and internal EMS audits. In 2016, pursuant to Part 2, Article 67 of Federal Law No. 7-FZ “On Environmental Protection” dated 10 January 2002, all the Company branches designed uniform IEC programmes containing full descriptions of the types and frequency of environmental monitoring in areas affected by the Company’s production activities.
Environmental incidents are recorded and investigated in accordance with the rules established by the EMS.
Pursuant to Article 73 of Federal Law No. 7-FZ “On Environmental Protection”, dated 10 January 2002, Unipro PJSC managers and specialists receive training in environmental protection and environmental safety at the time of hiring with refresher courses held at least once every five years.
Potential emergencies that might impact the environment were identified by the Company branches.
Emergency prevention and firefighting drills are carried out at all power plants in accordance with approved annual plans. Contracts were entered into for rescue services and for fire prevention services of the branches.
The analytical and explanatory notes of the Safety Data Sheet of the Hazardous Production Facility (GRES) of Unipro PJSC contain the evaluation of the accident risk at the HPFs. The risk assessment reviewed potential causes of incidents at hazardous production facilities, the probability of their occurrence and made forecasts of possible consequences (impacts on personnel, local people and the environment).
Potential accidents at hydraulic facilities are identified in special safety declarations for such facilities.
Documents have been prepared, which set out procedures for emergency response and prevention/mitigation of adverse environmental impacts at Unipro branches (see more details in the Unipro PJSC Annual Report for 2017).
The following actions are taken at the branches to reduce the probability of environmental accidents and violations of environmental security requirements:
Shaturskaya GRES took part in the “Victory Forest” annual environmental campaign in May and in the waste paper collection environmental campaign in July, put almost 1,900 silver carps into Lake Svyatoye in October.
In September, the ecologists of Berezovskaya GRES stocked the Yenisei River with valuable species of fish: over 6 thousand juvenile sterlets were released back into their natural habitat.
In September, Berezovskaya GRES issued an order on paper saving: it was decided to print documents on both sides and to agree upon them only electronically.
Unipro PJSC has a system of corporate environmental protection days that are primarily intended to fill in the gaps in the environmental knowledge, both for the employees and the public, for example, students of energy classes. The Company is supporting all projects associated with the employees' personal initiative. Moreover, the branches are exchanging successful experience in environmental projects proposed by the employees of production functions on a regular basis. This is the result of successful in-house communication when both environmental specialists and other employees become aware of environmental problems and take effort to contribute to the resolution of these problems.
On 1 January 2019, legal requirements providing for cardinal changes in the procedure for the rationing of adverse environmental impact and issue of the relevant permits and approvals came in force.
The Company gives special attention to improvements in the management of the so-called consequential environmental aspects that produce no direct environmental impact, but their consequences may arise in the future in the form of inappropriate managerial decisions and may harm both the Company’s reputation and the environment. This area of the environmental strategy comprises business games and subject contests to be conducted in all branches and in the executive office. “Ecologic” and “Green and Great” business games proved quite effective and up-to-date as a format for engaging employees with environmental matters and as a tool that makes it possible to feel the relation between the economic mechanisms in environmental regulation and the concept of business sustainability in the present-day context as a whole and acquire the necessary skills or at least attract attention to this aspect of business operations.
Besides, to ensure the development of the staff responsible for proper and effective performance of the environmental management system, the Company arranged for an in-process practical training of environmental specialists under individual programmes in 2019, involving preparation of research projects on the subjects relevant for each branch. As a final event of the in-process practical training, the Company held an in-house environmental conference in the premises of Surgutskaya GRES2 in December 2019.
In April, the employees of Smolenskaya GRES held an animated video contest at the Ozerny secondary school within the framework of the all-Russian energy saving festival #VmesteYarche-2019 (Brighter Together). The contest topic was: “Energy Saving in a Spaceship”.
In September, employees of Berezovskaya GRES taught an environmental lesson on the need for separate waste collection in the energy class at school No. 8 in Sharypovo.
Top managers, chief engineers, and environmental specialists of the Moscow Representative Office and all branches of Unipro PJSC took part in the event. The list of invited experts included the representatives of the Federal State Autonomous Body Research Institute Environmental Industrial Policy Centre (RI EIPC) and the National Research University Moscow Power Engineering Institute (NRU MPEI).
The event involved a panel evaluation of the research projects prepared by the environmental specialists of the branches on the subjects concerning the possibility, economic and environmental effects of implementing the best available technologies (BAT) outlined in Information and Technical Reference Book BAT No. 38.
The primary objective of this event was to provide environmental specialists with an experience of a deep dive into the workflow processes and to create a team of in-house BAT experts qualified to assess the applicability of BAT to the Company branches.
A panel composed of I. Popov, Deputy General Director for Production, chief engineers of all branches, and O. Kondratieva, Chair of the Environmental Engineering and Occupational Safety Department at NRU MPEI, evaluated the projects presented by the environmental specialists according to five criteria:
1. Environmental effect.
2. Cost efficiency.
3. Feasibility and innovativeness.
4. Implementation planning.
5. Presentation.
On the second day of the conference, the participants discussed the current state of and expected changes in the statutory procedures for evaluating adverse impact category 1 facilities for compliance with the requirements of the best available technologies.
During the business game, the experts of RI EIPC and NRU MPEI and specialists of Unipro PJSC subjected the intricacies of the procedure for obtaining the Complex Ecological Permit (CEP) and expected changes in this procedure to an in-depth analysis and simulation modelling. A representative of the state environmental expert examination panel clarified the peculiarities of environmental impact assessment of an enterprise and environmental control and monitoring programme for obtaining the CEP. Besides, the participants obtained clarifications on the procedures and timeframe for the Inter-Agency Commission of the Government of the Russian Federation to approve the environmental efficiency improvement programmes.
The conference participants received comprehensive answers to questions concerning the procedure for obtaining the CEP and will continue their effort to implement the BATs.
At the end of the business game, a schedule for obtaining the CEP was developed providing for the submission of the application quite ahead of the deadlines fixed by the legislation.
In September 2019, Unipro PJSC joined the environmental awareness building campaign for primary school children (“Do Not Waste the Air!”) sponsored by the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Protection of Moscow. The campaign was implemented in Moscow schools in the period from 23 September through 18 October 2019.
The Company gives a lot of attention to separate waste collection, which is the reason why it chose to share its knowledge and experience with schoolchildren. The learning programme comprising both a lecture and trivia games was developed jointly with the employees of Unipro PJSC Press Centre and Reliability and Fire and Environmental Safety Services and Departments. The lectures were delivered by the Company’s employees. During the lessons, the children found out why it is important to sort waste, how to prepare it for disposal, what the downsides of plastics are, and why consumption of plastics should be reduced.
Environmental sustainability (rational use of natural resources) is a key part of Unipro’s overall management system.
The key natural resources used by the Company in its industrial processes are coal, gas, fuel oil as well as water and land.
The Company developed key performance indicators (KPIs) for irretrievable water consumption related to water treatment (the chemical plant own needs), steam and water losses, and water leakages in heating networks to be set as indicators for bonus payments to the personnel. The Company made consistent efforts in this sphere during 2019.
Key tasks for water conservation
Yaivinskaya GRES is modernising its water intake meters. In addition, the reconstruction of fish protection devices is scheduled to take account of the most recent statutory changes and to make use of the most efficient technologies.
A similar fish protection project is envisaged for Surgutskaya GRES-2.
In 2019, gross emissions of pollutants of Unipro PJSC (rated in the Russian Federation) and air emissions of СО2 continued to decrease. This was primarily driven by lower electric power generation by steam-power units and a higher share of steam-power units in power generation, as well as atmospheric air protection measures. The figures for specific pollutant emissions have been quite stable — minor fluctuations in these figures are primarily due to changes in the fuel mix and committed generating equipment.
In September 2019, the Government of the Russian Federation signed Resolution No. 1228 “On Adoption of the Paris Agreement”. Pursuant to its commitments, the Russian Federation will need to adopt a law on state regulation of greenhouse gas emissions in 2020. A draft law is being currently discussed. The overall logic behind various versions of the draft law comes down to setting certain limits for each emitter of greenhouse gases and charges for exceeding the relevant limits. One of the options provides for using the model of emissions quotas to make it possible for businesses to manage the greenhouse gas units (tCO2 ) at the commodity exchange.
СО2 thousand tonnes g/kWh (output)
Emissions of pollutants, thousand tonnes
| Indicators | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gross air emissions of hazardous substances, total | 57.3 | 53.6 | 51.07 |
| Solid fuel ash | 1.4 | 1.1 | 1.3 |
| Gaseous and liquid substances, including: | 56.9 | 52.4 | 54.6 |
|
7.6 | 6.6 | 7.8 |
|
9.8 | 8.4 | 7.5 |
|
39.6 | 37.4 | 39.2 |
In case of Berezovskaya GRES , the most important of the current projects is the project providing for implementing an automatic continuous exhaust gas monitoring system to be compliant with the most recent and stringent requirements.
At Surgutskaya GRES-2 , repair activities and the upgrading of burner devices are aimed at reducing emissions to the maximum extent possible. At Power Unit No. 6, such activities helped gaining significant environmental effects — the concentration of pollutants has decreased from 370 mg/m3 to the minimum level of 194 mg/m3 at compara
Unipro PJSC is committed to the best international practices of low-carbon development under its environmental policy. Greenhouse gas reporting represents the first step on the path to creating the Company’s own accounting and monitoring system that is supposed to turn into an effective tool to reduce climate-related risks in the future. Furthermore, these reports comply with the governmental authorities' requirements and reliably reflect the Company’s progress in securing the emission reduction targets. To affirm the reliability and validity of the quantitative evaluation of greenhouse emissions by Unipro PJSC power plants, starting from the 2018 reporting, the Company performs the verification of greenhouse emissions by engaging an independent auditor.
As advised by the independent auditor and as required by Uniper SE, the corporate procedure of СО2 monitoring has been developed. It allows establishing consistent approaches and the most appropriate methods of calculating greenhouse gas emissions, as well as tools of controlling the reliability of corporate carbon reporting.
In the near future, the Company is planning to develop a carbon control strategy providing, inter alia, for the monitoring (estimation) and verification of greenhouse gas emissions by independent audit firms, overriding priority of energy efficiency improvement activities, evaluation and implementation of the best available technologies in the area of energy efficiency.
The Company prioritises minimisation of waste generation and maximum recycling as the key elements of waste management.
Most of the waste produced by the Company is non-hazardous in classes IV and V. Ash and slag waste from burning of coal (hazard class IV) is disposed of in ash disposal areas at Company facilities based on a special license. The same procedure is used to dispose of ash and slag waste from burning of coal, which is classified in hazard class V (not subject to licensing). The rise in ash and slag waste in 2019 is driven by the increased output at Berezovskaya GRES.
The higher hazard category wastes (I-III) were generated in significantly smaller volumes.
Oil and petroleum product sludge in hazard class III is used as lubricants or transferred to specialised licensed providers for neutralisation (incineration).
Waste in hazard class II (sulphuric acid from batteries and sulphuric acid electrolyte sludge) is neutralised in special tanks based on a license.
Ash and slag waste, thousand tonnes
Wastes in hazard class I (mainly waste containing mercury, including fluorescent lamps, mercury thermometers and other measuring equipment) is transferred to licensed providers for neutralisation (de-mercurisation).
In 2019, Unipro PJSC did not retain any waste for land-fill disposal at its own facilities.
In order to reduce waste generation by the branches, the Company has begun entering into contracts with inventory suppliers to return packaging and products, which are past their use-by date, but contain valuable components which can be recycled by the suppliers. However, mechanisms of extended producer responsibility are still underdeveloped in Russia, so the primary method for reducing waste generated by inventory use is to forward it to third parties for recycling, including against payment for such services. All Unipro branches therefore maintain waste-sorting systems for specific types of waste that are subject to phased prohibition of land-fill disposal (burial) under the Russian Government Resolution that came into force on 1 January 2018. For this purpose, the Company has designed detailed territorial flow charts for waste management, identifying waste-recycling providers for specific types of waste and arranging visits to recycling plants by employees of branches.
The applicable Russian law describes two basic concepts: waste accumulation (storage on a production site for up to 11 months) and disposal. Disposal may mean either burial (land-fill) or storage for subsequent disposal or use.
All Unipro branches have facilities for waste storage. The Company had accumulated waste at both the beginning and the end of the period. The Company duly procured a centralised license for disposal and neutralisation of wastes in hazard classes II-IV at specialised sites.
Therefore, the Company’s waste disposal arrangements are in compliance with the requirements of Russian law.
In 2019, the power consumption made up 82 mln kWh. The heat power consumption made up 94 thousand Gcal.
Volume of all energy resources used in Unipro PJSC in 2019
| Energy resource type | Consumption volume in kind | Measurement unit |
Consumption volume, RUB thousand |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nuclear power | — | — | — |
| Heat power | 94 | thousand Gcal |
4,657.16
|
| Electric power | 82 | mln kWh | 22,925.14 |
| Electromagnetic energy | — | — | — |
| Oil | — | — | — |
| Motor gasoline | 355.33 | tonnes | 294,098.98 |
| Diesel fuel | 828.28 | tonnes | |
| Fuel oil | 17.99 | thousand tonnes | |
| Natural gas | 9,910.4 | mln m3 | 34,097,329.0 |
| Coal | 4,127.9 | thousand tonnes | |
| Oil shale | — | — | — |
| Peat | — | — | — |
| Other | — | — | — |
The year of 2019 was not easy. It was difficult because of information confrontation, corporate disputes and litigation. All of the above had a communication component. The Company had to explain the current developments to its employees, to articulate our position to journalists and the public and to find arguments that are truthful in substance and simple in form. We coped with that. We managed to find. We managed to explain.
And we did help. We helped perceiving the perfection of music and theatre — on the scene and in concert halls. We helped conserving health — in hospitals and polyclinics. We helped preserving the nature — in forests and parks, on banks of rivers and lakes. We helped children and the elderly. We did good for the people.
Unipro’s team of communicators is a small group of great professionals, in which everyone is at their place, while we are all for one. We understand each other, since if not us, then who? Our work is with people. With senses. With senses for people.
Unipro pursues a broad range of social activities both inside and outside the Company. By implementing a variety of social projects, the Company contributes to improving the living standards of ordinary people and offers hope for a better future.
Unipro has implemented a programme of corporate volunteering since 2017 and the programme continues to expand. Company employees with a proactive, social committed attitude and strong desire to help are joining the movement.
Unipro’s current volunteering projects include traditional blood donor days, help in preparing children from orphanages and low-income families for school, visits to orphanages, New Year gifts, charity fairs, and environmental campaigns. All of these practices are now established traditions at Unipro.
In 2019, members of the Unipro volunteer movement also organised sports activities and intellectual games, and provided career guidance support to young people in regions of the Company’s presence.
The youth association of Smolenskaya GRES carried out activities for kids of the Ozerny village settlement: fire safety, traffic safety, Spring Ice, Home Alone, Uniproshnaya Viktorina, Rules of Conduct in the Forest.
Throughout the year, the volunteers worked in the Swallow shelter (village Prechistoe). Sports days, origami lessons, New Year’s celebrations with gifts were arranged for children from difficult families.
In addition, the volunteer movement carried out the Let Your Dream Come True campaign, under which 16 kids from needy families of village settlement Ozerny and surrounding localities obtained New Year’s gifts.
Yaivinskaya GRES continued the tradition of helping those under wardship from the Yaivinskaya special general education boarding school. The plant not only renders charity aid to the institution but also regularly arranges activities for its students, thus facilitating their social engagement.
Young energy workers from Yaivinskaya GRES are always welcome guests at the Beacon of Hope intermunicipal festival for disabled children.
In October 2019, participants of the youth association of Surgutskaya GRES2 branch together with students of the technological power engineering class at Surgutskaya school No. 19 planted trees along Gagarina Street, not far from Memorial of Glory.
The youth movement of Berezovskaya GRES has voluntarily arranged the In Search of Proof automotive quest, which is an insightful and entraining event for the town. The event was attended by 15 teams. Throughout the year, the youth helped the local shelter and lonely pensioners. For children from needy families, office supplies were collected as part of the Help Going to Study campaign.
On the eve of Russia’s Day, the youth movement of Berezovskaya GRES organised the Forest Near GRES campaign, where employees were proposed to plant a “family” tree on a special site and take care of it in the future. In total, 130 pine nurslings were planted.
In March 2019, Unipro PJSC was extensively involved in the work of the Krasnoyarsk Economic Forum. The Company arranged the round table entitled “Development of Competitive Mechanisms in the Power Industry as a Factor of Improving Performance of Russia’s Economy” as part of the KEF'2019 track “Resources and the Power Industry”.
During the forum, the CEO of Unipro PJSC Maxim Shirokov participated in the Drivers of National Competitiveness discussion at the plenary session of the Krasnoyarsk Economic Forum and at the round table entitled “Culture and Business. A New Vector of Partnership”, where he told the visitors about his experience of arranging long-term charity campaigns to support socio-cultural projects in Moscow and the regions of presence of power plants belonging to the Company.
Evgeny Boyko, Head of the Chair of Heat Power Plants of the Siberian Federal University, presented the practice of training young power engineers using the Unipro “school-university-enterprise” principle in collaboration with the Polytechnic School of the Siberian Federal University and school No. 8 of Sharypovo during the session entitled “Education and Business. Practices of Corporate Education Programmes”.
Throughout the year 2019, employees of the Moscow Representative Office took part in four donated blood campaigns for the Blood Banking of the Federal Medical and Biological Agency of Russia, during which they donated more than 30 litres of blood.
Moscow hosted yet another campaign to help the disabled kids from the House of Charity under the auspices of the Russian Birch charity foundation. The foundation provides children from regional asylums with accommodations and care during the pre-surgery and rehabilitation periods. Employees of the Moscow Representative Office arranged the purchase of hygiene items, medical consumables required to those under warship from the House of Charity and visited kids with whom they spent the entire day.
In May, employees from the executive office made a corporate volunteer visit to the F. M. Dostoevsky memorial estate to plant an apple garden. In September, the same visit was made to the A. S. Pushkin Vyazemy estate. As part of the event, we planted broadleaved trees to make a framework of the path combining two estates making up the complex of the memorial estate.
The top priorities of Unipro continue to be socially-oriented. True to the traditions of Unipro, the Company focuses its charity and sponsorship programmes on regions of its presence, in the first instance.
Key areas of Unipro charity work
Unipro spending on charity and social projects, RUB mln
| 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
|---|---|---|
| 39.8 | 154.3 | 70.6 |
Unipro PJSC pays a lot of attention to education and development of the young generation. The Company renders support to kindergartens, schools and social institutions for children in regions of its presence and collaborates with schools and universities in training future power engineers and potential employees of Unipro PJSC.
Thus, in the reporting period Yaivinskaya GRES extended RUB 200 thousand to acquire outdoors gaming equipment for kindergarten No. 19 in Yaiva, RUB 300 thousand — to perform repair works of the Yaiva boarding school, RUB 500 thousand and ten computers — to the power engineering class of Yaiva school No. 3. One computer was granted to the Council of Veterans of the plant.
In 2019, Shaturskaya GRES rendered charity support to the remedial boarding school and socio-rehabilitation centre for minors, by extending cash funds to perform repair works and to acquire the required utilities. Financial aid was provided to kindergarten No. 5, school No. 4, the Shatura Power Engineering College and the municipal lyceum.
Smolenskaya GRES financed repairs and purchase of new equipment for the Skazka and Kolokolchik kindergartens and acquired video magnifiers for vision-impaired kids of the Krasninsky secondary boarding school for children with disabilities. Financial aid was provided to the Gamayunia Children’s Forest Republic: a sports ground and a ropes course were installed on the territory of the children’s camp.
В Unipro PJSC has been implementing the Career Starts at School project since 2007. The initiative has set up power engineering classes in the towns of Sharypovo, Surgut, Shatura, Yaiva, and Ozerny where highschool students (grades 10−11) study mathematics, physics and computer science in-depth, and gain specialised knowledge for a future in the power engineering industry.
Employees of the power plants tell the children what makes a career in their industry special, answer questions, lead tours around their place of work and tell the history of Russian power plants. When they enter higher education, youngsters can gain work experience at the Company’s branches and the best of them will be offered jobs when they graduate.
Unipro allocated over RUB 2.4 mln in 2019 to develop the Careers Start at School initiative. The money was used for educational equipment, upgrading of the curriculum, teachers' payroll, lab activities and funding incentives for the best students.
In 2019, the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation awarded the Company with diplomas for the proactive social policy based on the results of a contest for the best sociallyoriented power engineering company:
Starting from 2012, school No. 8 in Sharypovo has a power engineering class opened with the assistance of Berezovskaya GRES branch of Unipro PJSC. In 2014, at the 11th Krasnoyarsk Economic Forum, Unipro PJSC and the Siberian Federal University signed the longterm cooperation agreement for training power engineers using the “school-universityenterprise” principle.
In addition to traditional forms of interaction between the structural academic division of a university and a power enterprise (offering work training and jobs after graduation, excursions, participation in the state final attestation, etc.), the agreement provides for the multi-disciplinary and comprehensive collaboration, implying that several school leavers are enrolled at the Chair of Heat Power Plants of the Siberian Federal University and return to Berezovskaya GRES after graduation.
The implementation of this agreement allowed for significantly updating the content of the academic process for heat power engineers at the Chair of Heat Power Plants of the Siberian Federal University, upgrading training equipment, creating three new laboratories (laboratory of fuel and gas analysis, laboratory of water treatment and laboratory of simulator training) and equipping its computer class with graphic stations.
In 2019, the Company’s financial support was directed at the acquisition of components and consumables for an engineering project for first-year students “Micro Steam Power Plant” to generate a cogeneration power unit based on traditional and alternative energy sources and consumables. A digital radio guide was purchased to give courses and hold excursions in manufacturing units of power plants, as well as computer and presentation equipment to support the training process.
In 2017, Shaturskaya GRES branch of Unipro PJSC decided to open the first-in-Shatura class with enhanced studies of physics and mathematics and took it under its wing. Since then, students participated in conferences, forums and power-related academic competitions. Employees of the plant gave regular lectures to school students and helped them prepare academic papers and communications. It is important that theoretical studies were supported with practice: lyceum students repeatedly visited the museum of history and workshops of Shaturskaya GRES. On 25 June 2019, the first power engineering class of Shatura held its graduation ceremony.
A lot of work is being done with the industry-specific educational institution — the Shatura Power Engineering College. In addition to excursions to the power plant and meetings with power engineers, students may attend professional navigation lectures.
In October 2019, Surgutskaya Municipal Budgetary General Educational Institution Secondary General Education School No. 19 was awarded with the diploma of the 100 Best Russian Schools federal contest for its experience of interacting with Surgutskaya GRES-2 branch of Unipro PJSC.
With the financial aid of Unipro PJSC, the project activity of all-year students is supported as part of developing the CDIO international educational initiative. The involvement of students in project activity and their success take the form of their participation and wins at federal youth contests.
Power engineering class students of Yaivinskaya GRES are students of classes 10 and 11 of school No. 3 in Yaiva, who selected engineering fields of study. They are subject to targeted work, receive enhanced trainings in industry-specific subject matters and take elective courses at the plant. At the beginning of the academic year, students of class 10 completed the initiation ceremony for power engineers. Young employees of the plant engage children in joint intellectual and sports activities. They get school students familiar with the power engineer profession, for them to make the right and informed choice.
In 2019, courses “Master of Control and Metering Devices” was organised for students of power engineering classes 8−9 of the Ozerny school. The course helps training technicians for control and metering devices (CMD) and automation. Children studied the basics of CMD electrical engineering, CMD information and uses in automatics, techniques of assembly and repair, as well as fundamentals of CMD materials science and occupational safety.
In addition, students of the power engineering class visited the Regional Technology College in Smolensk, where they got to know about majors of operation and maintenance of electrical and electromechanical equipment, control and metering devices and automatics.
In 2018, the Company started the Uniproshka for Kids project aimed at training preschool and junior school children to behave safely in the street, at home and in public places, and at mastering elementary skills of self-saving in extreme situations.
In this useful undertaking, power engineers are supported by Uniproshka, a hero invented by the Company. He is very smart and kind and is always ready to give a useful piece of advice both to adults and kids.
The Company earned the Intercomm 2019 award in the Territory of the Good category for the Uniproshka for Kids project.
In 2019, eco-lectures entitled “Ecology. Separate Waste Collection” were held in preschool and school institutions of the Ozerny village settlement. Kids got to know how to collect waste correctly, where to put it and what will come out of processing various types of waste. In the game format, each participant tried their hand as a waste sorter.
Surgut held traffic safety trainings in two district social institutions for kids in hardship and with disabilities: the Centre of Social Help for Families and Children and Na Kalinke.
Uniproshka held trainings on safe conduct for junior schools children of school No. 2 in Surgut. Together with animators and presenters, kids studied a number of important matters in the game format and with the help of video clips: how and where to correctly cross over the road, how traffic signs, lights and road marking should be read. School children were told about how to safely behave on the water and in the forest during vacations, were demonstrated training clips, shown how dangerous animals look like and told what to do with an insect bite, etc. These activities involved dozens of kids (about 100 in total). Along with them, parents, teachers of social institutions and educators participated in the programmes.
A training event for first and second class pupils was devoted to the safe conduct on the water and in the forest. Kids were told how to secure themselves from mites and snakes. In the game format, they were reminded of all the fundamentals of behaving during swimming in water reservoirs and explained what to do if you are lost in a shopping mall, in the street, at a concert and in other public places.
Uniproshka for Kids project with the “Safety is Above All!” motto known to all Unipro power engineers.
The professional team of children animators worked out two training scenarios — road safety and home alone. Kids got to know about traffic rules, rules of conduct in various stressful situations and tried those situations in practice. Now, they are prepared for situations, many of them have never thought of before.
200 more kids were acquainted with safe conduct rules in the course of campaigns, children’s holidays and other activities with Uniproshka.
In addition, Uniproshka repeatedly took part in the Beacon of Hope arts and crafts festival for children with disabilities. Uniproshka worked with the Yaivinskaya GRES youth association to support youngsters in their performances, helped them giving credence to themselves and did everything to make the occasion a success.
In 2019, Berezovskaya GRES branch of Unipro PJSC elevated the Uniproshka for Kids project to the municipal level. Previously, the training campaign only covered power plant employees, and now “the cheerful lessons from Uniproshka” are available to all kids of Sharypovo.
Citizens of Sharypovo often see a consumed character bearing the Unipro logotype in their streets. During the all-Russian week of safe road traffic, Uniproshka helped traffic inspectors train kids to safely cross the road. He distributed leaflets to drivers reminding them of the need to reduce speed near schools and places from where children can slip out. Children obtained gifts from Uniproshka in the form of lightreflecting stickers. In winter, children often go to school in the dark, and it is difficult for drivers to see a child, especially if they are dressed in dark clothes. Five campaigns were conducted throughout the year, assisted by volunteers from the power engineering class.
In late April, Sharypovo hosted the debut interactive fairy-tale “Uniproshka to the Rescue”. The performance is aimed at children aged 6−8 years. It is presented by young actors from the Sharypovo children’s theatre school “Art-Entre”. The piece was written by Natalia Zheltova, director of the theatre school, honoured employee of theatrical art of Russia. All financial costs related to the creation of the fairy-tale were borne by Unipro PJSC. During the play presented as a fairytale, a form popular for kids, children are told what to do if they are bullied at school, if they are alone at home and there is a ring at the door, how to find parents if they are lost in the crowd and how to behave if a stranger invites them over or offers a ride. The main character Uniproshka gives insightful pieces of advice to children and helps them work their ways out of difficult situations. Throughout the year, this performance was attended by all junior class pupils of the town. In 2020, Unipro intends to presents this show in the regions of its presence — Shatura and the Ozerny village settlement.
Unipro provides ongoing support to various healthcare institutions for renovation work and the acquisition of up-to-date medical equipment.
Thus, in 2019 beneficiaries included the Surgut district clinical hospital, the Surgut city clinical hospital and Surgut city clinical polyclinic No. 1. Healthcare institutions purchased furniture and computers on account of the Company’s funds.
In 2019, thanks to the support from Shaturskaya GRES branch, three special medical beds with electric drives were delivered to the Shatura district hospital. Such equipment is intended to take care of bed-bound patients and significantly facilitates both rehabilitation and treatment by supporting the most comfortable position of certain body parts by changing slope angles.
In 2019, the Company allocated about RUB 2.5 mln to Ozerny District Hospital No. 1 for acquisition of ultrasonic diagnostics equipment. The new ultrasonic diagnostics equipment was delivered and installed in the hospital. It is multipurpose and ensures the full-scale visual diagnostics of patients by doctors.
Yaivinskaya GRES continues to replenish the diagnostics equipment of a local hospital and allocated RUB 800 thousand to acquire cardiographs and a 24-hour heart monitoring device. The society of the blind of Kizel was provided with funds to acquire typhlomeans and a TV set with typhlocomments.
Unipro branches fund vacations and activities for youngsters during summer holidays.
In 2019, RUB 600 thousand were allocated to arrange the summer occupation of teenagers aged 15−17 in summer labour unions for the beautification of Sharypovo. 100 teenagers wishing to earn money, half of them being children of employees of Berezovskaya GRES, combined into the Unipro labour union and obtained a branded T-shirt and a baseball cap. They removed garbage from municipal parks and squares, banks of lakes and water reservoirs, planted, weeded and watered flowers at municipal gardenbeds, painted and modernised playgrounds. In addition, as ordered by municipal social services, they helped lonely pensioners in cleaning their apartments and working in their country houses.
Every year, all the Company’s branches send greetings to WWII veterans and former employees of the Victory Power Plant, as well as provide them with financial assistance and invite to special events. All former employees of Company power plants receive anniversary greetings.
Shaturskaya GRES gives special recognition to veterans who are currently employed at the plant and pays for subscription to the local newspaper for plant veterans, all military and homefront veterans of WWII from Shatura. Another good tradition is to congratulate power engineering veterans with their anniversaries. In addition, plant veterans annually participate in the meeting dedicated to Victory Day, celebrations of Power Engineer’s Day, and obtain gifts. The most active of them, jointly with the Company personnel, attend regional environmental campaigns to plant spruces in autumn and spring.
In 2019, Surgutskaya GRES-2 again supported veterans by allocating about RUB 100 thousand to renovate the museum of the Brothers in Arms community organisation.
Yaivinskaya GRES holds annual celebrations to mark Victory Day, Power Engineers' Day, and International Day for Older Persons, and provides gifts and food packages to former workers and pensioners of the power plant.
Berezovskaya GRES bought gifts for 86 WWII veterans in the reporting year. Financial support from Unipro made it possible for 112 senior citizens on low incomes to receive the Lights of Siberia local newspaper.
Veterans of the Ozerny village settlement received Victory Day congratulations on the eve of the 9th of May. Each veteran was visited by the management of Smolenskaya GRES and representatives of the Moscow Region. They were awarded with memorable cards, flowers and financial aid to acquire medicines.
The Sharypovo District — Territory of Equal Opportunities programme has been implemented since 2013 in close cooperation with Berezovskaya GRES branch of Unipro. Since then, the Company allocated RUB 5,980,000 to cover the needs of rural incapacitated persons. In total, over 700 disabled persons obtained help. Allocated funds were used to:
Computer technologies made it possible for the people with special needs to create a community in the social media, support each other, and share information. These people are offered distance developmental and psychological training sessions in cooperation with social and educational institutions. The specialists of the Sharypovsky District social service centre deliver sessions to parents of disabled children to teach them how to use online resources.
The Company supports and promotes sport as part of its charity and sponsorship work.
In 2019, Shaturskaya GRES rendered financial aid to the ski club for children and teenagers. Young skiers were able to get trained in a new modern and, most importantly, comfortable outfit. Moreover, the Company again rendered assistance to the Energiya football team to participate in football matches of the Cup of the Shatura District and in the international mini football tournament among power engineers in the Republic of Belarus.
In the reporting year, the programme of modernising the Bely municipal park in Sharypovo continued. A ground was coated with asphalt, ten vandal-proof simulators for physical training were acquired and installed. Now, all citizens may be engaged not only in the recreational run and ski walking in the park, but also in training all groups of muscles. Simulators are very popular among elderly people.
Shaturskaya GRES obtained a thanks video address from Olympic champions Nikita Kryukov and Evgeny Dementiev for the financial support of the ski club.
In 2019, RUB 250 thousand were allocated to finance a traditional mini football tournament among school teams dedicated to Power Engineer’s Day. The tournament was attended by 14 teams: 10 boys' teams and 4 girls' teams, provided that 3 girls' teams arrived from neighbouring towns of the Krasnoyarsk Territory.
Surgutskaya GRES-2 held its annual Surgut Ring athletics race. In 2019, it hit a new record: over 190 athletes participated in the race. The power plant also held two small ice hockey tournaments. The branch rendered help to the Federation of Synchronised Swimming of Surgut, municipal autonomous institution Ice Arena and the Khabibulin Academy of Volleyball.
Smolenskaya GRES supported trips of taekwondo practitioners of the Unipro Dukhovshchinsky District Club to European-level competitions. Thanks to the When I went there, I did not know I would run first, but I was always thinking about winning. And my coach instructed me: “You will manage it, we need this win, the Smolensk Region needs your win.” What has happened is very important for me. I am the only Russian athlete to obtain a personal license for the next tournament. Of course, I am proud of myself: a boy from a district town, from the Unipro sports club, ran first. Danila Goncharov, an athlete from the taekwondo club in Dukhovshchina targeted help, Danila Goncharov participated in the Cup of President of the European Union of Taekwondo among Kadets (Sindelfingen, Germany) and ran first, while at the World Cup in Tashkent (Uzbekistan) he ran third. At the European Cup for Taekwondo among Children (Sindelfingen, Germany), Victoria Semenkova ran first, and Maria Matina ran second.
The Company offered help in holding the second boxing tournament in the Ozerny village settlement for prizes of Smolenskaya GRES. Supporting ship modelling sports has already become a tradition. Activities are conducted in commemoration of Anatoly Lebedev, a former employee of the plant and the founder of the Odyssey ship modelling section. The section is annually sponsored to acquire models, equipment and spare parts.
A large portion of the annual programme of Unipro’s social investments is devoted to cultural projects. The Company provides financing to the restoration and digitisation of old music scores from the musical library of the Russian State Musical TV and Radio Centre. Jointly with the Orpheus radio studio, the Company restores and arranges recording of pieces of forgotten Russian composers, remits cash funds to the foundation assisting the revival of the Moscow Synodal Choir, supports the Golden Mask theatrical festival and regularly helps the Sharypovo municipal theatre in the Krasnoyarsk Territory.
Berezovskaya GRES has been supporting the Sharypovo municipal theatre since its foundation in 1993. In 2019, RUB 212 thousand were spent for the repair of interpanel joints and winterising the theatre building.
Educatees of the Sharypovo children’s theatre school “Art-Entre” obtained RUB 300 thousand from the Company to travel to Moscow for the participation in the theatre art contest “Good Luck!” held among youth theatre schools. The performance of the “It was in Venice” school under the play of Carlo Goldoni “The Servant of Two Masters” won the firstdegree award, while educatee of the school Maxim Osintsev was awarded with the diploma as the “Best Male Actor”.
In commemoration of the 425th anniversary of Surgut, Surgutskaya GRES-2 participated in the project “Using the Paths of the Black Fox” to produce navigational signs for the Old Surgut historical and cultural centre.
In 2019, plays of the best Russian theatres were demonstrated in Sharypovo. The Golden Mask festival was held here for the first time, thanks to the financial aid of Unipro PJSC, while in the history of the festival this town was represented many times. Performances of the Sharypovo drama theatre “Gang of Outsiders” and “From the College” participated in the out-of-competition festival programme “Mask Plus” in 2018 and 2019. The stage production of “Once upon a Time” was a nominee of the Golden Mask award in 2017, while Holger Muenzenmeyer became a nominee as the “Best Supporting Actor”.
Sharypovo inhabitants saw performances nominated for the Golden Mask award: “Notes of a Young Doctor” of St. Petersburg’s theatre Masterskaya, “The Kreutzer Sonata” of Novosibirskbased theatre Globus, family performance “A Fairy-Tale That was Never Written” of the Trikster theatre from Moscow. There were no free seats at all the three performances: the audience was sitting on attachable chairs, standing in the lobby and welcoming guests with deserved delight.
According to the festival’s rules, each theatre additionally arranged its own event. Director of Moscow-based Trikster Vyacheslav Ignatov held a master class for a junior group of the Art-Entre theatre school for the technique of shadow theatre. In two hours, under the direction of the well-known master, young actors wrote a play, painted and cut main protagonists and properties, rehearsed and demonstrated a real shadow theatre performance to their parents.
Major actor of the Masterskaya theatre from Saint Petersburg Maksim Blinov attended a meeting with actors from the Sharypovo theatre and shared his experience in creating mono-performances.
Director of Novosibirsk-based Globus theatre Aleksey Kriklivy and laureate of the Golden Mask award of 2015 as the best actor, actor of the above-mentioned theatre Lavrentiy Sorokin told journalists about the trends of modern theatre development at a dedicated meeting.
In March 2019, Krasnoyarsk hosted the 29th Global Winter Universiade, during which a large-scale cultural event took place — opening of the exhibition “Surikov. The Capture of Snow Town”. Especially for this exhibition, over 60 paints and graphic masterpieces of this artist were delivered from six museums from all over Russia. Unipro PJSC served as the general sponsor of the exhibition. The Company financed the delivery of the original paints of Surikov to Krasnoyarsk from the funds of the State Russian Museum and the State Tretyakov Gallery, assisted the Krasnoyarsk Museum of Arts in repairing premises, acquiring exhibition and safeguarding equipment, as well as devices for a comfortable stay of disabled visitors in the museum.
The exhibition was opened in the Surikov Krasnoyarsk Museum of Art. Five halls of the museum hosted 60 paints and graphic works of Vasily Surikov, unique transcripts and photos of the artist, extracts from newspapers of the early 20th century dwelling on his works, clothes and items belonging to the Surikov family, his friends and contemporaries. Museum halls also housed installations of modern Krasnoyarsk painters reflecting the main topic of the exhibition — the Krasnoyarsk Territory as the hotbed of global talent. Central to the exhibition was the masterpiece of the Russian and global art — painting “The Capture of Snow Town” delivered from the Russian Museum of Saint Petersburg.
The first visitors of the exhibition were minister of culture of the Krasnoyarsk Territory Arkady Zinov, CEO of Unipro PJSC Maxim Shirokov and head of Krasnoyarsk Sergey Eremin. During two months, the exhibition was attended by more than 25,000 visitors in Kransoyarsk.
In 2019, Unipro became the general partner of international cello festival Vivacello for the first time. Vivacello is the only largescale annual project devoted to cello music in Russia.
Vivacello delivers world premieres to the audience every year. In 2019, the festival agenda included several Russian and international premieres, such as a double concerto for cello and accordion with the orchestra of French composer Samuel Struck “Maya's Dream”. On 20 November, renowned English cellist Raphael Wallfisch performed in Russia for the first time with the Russian premiere of a concerto for cello with orchestra of Gerald Finzi — one of the most respected English composers of the 20th century. Another first performance of the festival is a triple concerto of Lithuanian composer Anatolijus Shenderovas. A special guest of Vivacello 2019 was the greatest Polish composer and band director Krzysztof Penderecki. On the day of festival opening, his Concerto Grosso No. 1 for 3 Cellos was performed on the scene of the Zaryadye concert hall.
Unipro is committed to maintaining a continuous dialogue with stakeholders.
A Company working group prepared a list of key stakeholders for the purposes of this Annual Report. The list was made with due regard for both the Company’s economic, social and environmental impacts on various stakeholders and the impact of various stakeholders on the Company’s business.
Ranking of key stakeholders
The Company works to develop mechanisms of interaction with each group of stakeholders by respecting a balance of interests and ensuring full and timely disclosure of information, expanding cooperation with the stakeholders and encouraging their involvement in Company activities.
| Stakeholder | Form of interaction |
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| Investors and shareholders |
Meetings of shareholders and other corporate activities
Publication of reports
Official correspondence, conference calls
IR presentations and IR activities
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| Customers and consumers |
Contractual relations and cooperation agreements
Disclosures on the Company’s website
Feedback opportunities
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| Business partners, suppliers, and contractors |
Open and competitive procurement procedures
Forums, exhibitions, conferences, dialogues
Joint projects
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| Environmental community |
Assessment of the Company’s environmental footprint
Environmental projects in regions of the Company’s presence
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| Workforce |
Safe working conditions and decent salaries
Training and advanced training
Social support
Provision of information and communication via internal channels
Meetings with trade union representatives
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| Professional associations and organisations |
Publication of reports
Forums, exhibitions, and conferences
Joint programmes, participation in associations
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| Federal, regional and municipal authorities |
Social and economic cooperation agreements with constituent entities of the
Russian Federation
Work in joint committees, expert groups, participation in public debates on sector development
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| Regulatory and supervisory bodies |
Timely presentation of reports
Development of proposals to improve legislation
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| Local communities and populations in regions of the Company’s presence |
Ensuring decent working conditions
Social support for local communities
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| Educational institutions |
Research cooperation
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| Non-profit social and charitable organisations |
Social and charity projects
Public reporting
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| Media |
Dissemination of press releases
Posting of information on the corporate website and in social media
Press conferences, interviews, communication with the press, press tours
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