No. 2, 2005

CONTENTS:

• STAYING AT THE TOP
  Vagit Alekperov,
  President of JSC LUKOIL
  A new impetus to further improving LUKOIL's business strategy
• LUKOIL: FACTS AND FIGURES
  Events, Agreements, Meetings
• REEFS OF THE BOSPORUS
  Anatoly Barkov,
  Vice-President of JSC LUKOIL
  The Black Sea straits and safety of transportation by sea tankers
• THINKING AHEAD
  Oil of Russia magazine talks to Nikolay Nikolayev, General Director of JSC LUKOIL-Nizhnevolzhskneft
• TOWARD AN INTERNATIONAL STANDARD
  Oil of Russia magazine talks to Vladimir Zyazin, General Director of JSC LUKOIL-Volgogradneftepererabotka
• THE FLAGSHIP OF PETROCHEMICAL PRODUCTION
  Dmitry Gurtovoy
  JSC Stavrolen is operating successfully to the benefit of the country and the Company
• EFFICIENCY AND QUALITY TAKE PRECEDENCE
  Oil of Russia talks to Semyon Glozman, General Director of JSC LUKOIL-Nizhnevolzhsknefteprodukt
• AN OIL OASIS IN THE WESTERN DESERT
  Oil of Russia magazine talks to Sergey Nikiforov, Regional Director for Egypt of LUKOIL Overseas Holding Ltd.
• THE SOCIAL VECTOR OF BUSINESS
  Maxim Perminov
  Summing up the first three years of the implementation of LUKOIL's Social Code
• THE BALTIC AZIMUTH
  Nikolay Pankrashkin
  The construction of modern Russian oil transshipment terminals in the Bay of Finland enters a new stage
• RESPONDING TO THE NEW CENTURY'S CHALLENGES
  Prof. Mikhail Levinbuk,
  Dr. Sc. (Techn.), Russian State University of Oil and Gas (Moscow)
  Russia's refining industry: prospects and development trends
• RUSSIA AND OPEC: DIALOG MUST GO ON
  Oil of Russia magazine talks to Academician Anatoly Dmitriyevsky, Director of the RAS Institute of Oil and Gas Problems
• THE INNOVATION VECTOR
  Vladimir Akramovsky
  High technology: the basis of LUKOIL-OTO strategic partnership
• LOOKING TO THE FUTURE WITH OPTIMISM
  Oil of Russia magazine talks to Alexey Shlykov, Managing Director of SAP CIS and Baltic states
• PROGRAMS FOR TOMORROW
  Vladimir Yelistratov
  ENCONCO offers leading oil companies strategic solutions
• MERIDIAN OF COOPERATION
  Prof. Vladilen Kashchavtsev,
  Dr. Sc.
  Russia-APR energy dialogue: present and future
• WHITHER OUR MINING INDUSTRY?
  Vitaly Karaganov,
  Cand. Sc. (Techn.), Deputy Director of the FEC Department of the Industry and Energy Ministry
  Russia's mineral legislation improvement priorities
• PSA: PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS
  Oil of Russia magazine talks to Jonathan Hines, partner of LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, L.L.P.
• THE FIRST YEAR OF THE THIRD PROGRAM
  Alexander Asenin
  LUKOIL's Ecological Safety Program for 2004-2008 is being successfully implemented
• SATELLITES ON ECOLOGICAL SAFETY WATCH
  Dmitry Mikhailov
  The Baltic D-6 offshore oil field under satellite supervision
• AT THE DAWN OF THE VOLGOGRAD OIL INDUSTRY
  Alexander Matveichuk,
  Ph.D. (History)
  Oil exploration on the territory of what is now the Volgograd Region began 60 years ago
• PIONEERS OF THE METHANE AGE
  Alexander Yefimov,
  Lyudmila Volkova
  170 years ago, the first joint-stock gas company was founded in Russia
• LEND-LEASE AND THE NORTHERN CONVOYS
  Sergey Kovalyov
  The trans-Atlantic lend-lease convoys of 1941-1944 have gone down in the history of the Great Patriotic War of the USSR
• LUKOIL'S PICTORIAL CHRONICLER
• RUSSIAN VIRTUOSOS
  Alexander Atanatsky
  The Tchaikovsky Grand Symphony Orchestra on the eve of its 75th anniversary
• PRESERVING OUR HERITAGE FOR POSTERITY
  Alexander Snegin,
  Alexander Seleznyov
  JSC LUKOIL finances the reconstruction of the ancient Astrakhan Kremlin