OREANDA-NEWS. March 27, 2013. Within the frameworks of a final stage of the charitable contribution We bring warmth to people! carried out by ITERA, the necessary medical instruments and equipment were delivered to all children's homes of the Sverdlovsk Region.

As agreed with the Specialized Children's Home, the State Health Care Organization of the Sverdlovsk Region (SHCO SR), children's functional beds, wall-mounted irradiators-re-circulators, sterilizers, swaddling cabinets, medical and instrument tables had been delivered to children's homes of the Region.

The time of action We bring warmth to people! coincided with the ITERA 20th anniversary and was named in line with the Company’s slogan. The action was implemented with the involvement of Uralsevergaz (Urals North Gas), an ITERA affiliate. During the action, nine children's homes in Yekaterinburg, Nizhni Tagil, Kamensk-Uralsk, Serov, Pervouralsk, Revda, Krasnouralsk, Vjukhino (a settlement in the Sysertski District), had already received 1.5 thousand “warm presents”. They included winter clothes and footwear, blankets, electric convectors and heaters, as well as carpets.

Alexey Yefremov, chief medical officer of SHCO SR Specialized Children's Home, which supervises all children's homes of the region stressed: “Helping children is something that can never be too much. We are sincerely grateful to ITERA, the Company which is always ready to help those in much need”.

ITERA International Group of Companies is a vertically integrated holding company which includes dozens of enterprises and companies in CIS, Baltic countries, Western Europe, Asia and the USA. Gas business is a core business of ITERA since its inception in 1992. ITERA Oil and Gas Company, LLC, is a joint venture of OJSC NK Rosneft with a 51% stake, and Companies of ITERA International Group of Companies with a 49% shareholding, one of the largest independent producers and sellers of natural gas in Russia.  The Company has been developing its own production of gas in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District since 1998. The Company has invested over US\\$ 2 billion in development of the gas industry. Overall, over 250 billion cubic meters of gas was produced in gas fields developed by Itera.  The total volume of gas sold is about 600 billion cubic meters. Development, gas processing and power generations are among strategic businesses of the Group, too.

CJSC Uralsevergaz is a company with shareholdings of ITRERA Oil and Gas Company, LLC, and the Government of the Sverdlovsk Region. The Company is the main supplier of natural gas to the Middle Urals.