Partners


Cultural Programme Partners
Joint Stock Company “Goznak”
Cultural Programme Partner

Goznak is a 205 years history enterprise, one of the key stakeholders of security products and accompanying services on physical (paper) substrates and in digital area on the international market. The production facilities allow producing thousands tons of security banknote paper annually, billions banknotes and coins, tens of millions passports, tens of billions different tax, special and postal stamps, providing the government and foreign partners’ demand in banknotes, coins, awards and medals issuing.

Goznak also develops digital products and data processing centers, providing services both for the customers’ facilities arrangement and for compute resourcing for information system development.


Arkady Trachuk - General Director

Simple Group
Cultural Programme Partner

Simple Group is one of the largest importers and national distributors of high-quality wine and spirits in the Russian market, with its own actively-developing retail network. The group of companies includes SimpleWine retail brand (wine stores, online-store and mobile app), Grand Cru wine restaurant (marked with a MICHELIN star in the MICHELIN 2022 guide), the Simple Media house and the Enotria Wine school.

The company's portfolio includes more than 5,000 wines from 42 countries, a unique collection of brands of spirits, mineral water, natural juices and tonics, professional glass and accessories. For more than 26 years, Simple has been introducing Russian residents to the world enogastronomical culture and developing its own educational projects.

The ultimate range of categories and styles fitting any taste and budget, as well as high level services refined through the long history of Simple Group in Russia — that is our key offer to our business partners, consumers and the broad range of wine enthusiasts.


Maksim Kashirin - Founder and President of Simple Group. Vice-President of OPORA Russia, Head of the Trade Committee, and the Alcohol and Winemaking Industry Committee.

TGC-1
Cultural Programme Partner

TGC-1 is the leading producer of electricity and heat in the North-West region of Russia. It operates 52 electric generating stations in four regions of Russia: St. Petersburg, Republic of Karelia, Leningrad Oblast, and Murmansk Oblast. The installed electric capacity of the сompany’s stations amounted to 6,9 GW and heating capacity of 13,57 thous GCal/hr.

Unlike other Russian generating companies, TGC-1 has a unique structure of production assets: hydro generation accounts for 40% of installed capacity, with total capacity of 2,900 MW.

The Company includes 12 cogeneration plants with a total capacity of 4,000 MW. These are strategic sources of heat energy for the population and industry of St. Petersburg, Petrozavodsk, and Murmansk, Kirovsk and Apatity in Murmansk Oblast.

Generated electric energy primarily goes to the domestic wholesale market.

Major shareholder is Gazprom Energoholding LLC (51.79%).