Social Projects
LETA Group supports a number of social projects.
Support to the crew of the nuclear submarine “Yekaterinburg”
LETA Group and ASK Labs, a member of LETA Group, participates in providing support to the crew of the nuclear submarine “Yekaterinburg” and members of their families.
Since 1999, the city administration of Yekaterinburg and the Charity Fund “Support to the Crew” has taken the nuclear submarine “Yekaterinburg” under their patronage. The important part of the activities is regular material support of the families and presents to the crew members and their families. Largest companies of the city actively support the project. It is worth mentioning that ASK Labs has been an active partner in the project for ten years.
Today, the ballistic missile nuclear submarine “Yekaterinburg” is one of the best submarines in Russia equipped with modern missiles. The Delfin-class nuclear submarine, a 667БДРМ model, was built in 1984 in Severodvinsk; then it was modified. It has 16 R-29RMU2 Sineva missiles and the crew of 135-140 persons.
Support of Educational projects
LETA Group supports some school educational initiatives. Particularly, the company helps to organize the festival “Youth. Intelligence. Culture”, which is held in Moscow School No. 444, with advanced study of mathematics, informatics and physics.
This festival aims at maintaining school traditions and development of creative skills and habits of schoolchildren.
Support of humanitarian projects
LETA Group support the photo-project “Unforgotten Russia: from edge to edge”. The project was launched by some enthusiasts in spring of 2009, and in 2010, it was officially supported by LETA Group, which decided to become a partner of this creative project. The photographers want to show the audience really warm pictures of Russia, the country which is dear to us.
The project “Unforgotten Russia: from edge to edge” is to help people think of Russia as a unique and beautiful country of many faces, the country, which enriches the world culture with its unique images and preserves the cultures of all peoples living there/ Russia is a large country, and just a few people went it across. Today, most people live in their own world and learn their own country through TV screens.
