On May 15-16 2006 the final event of First Gold sports charity program by Polyus Gold takes place in Krasnoyarsk. During the event seven orphanages in Krasnoyarsk region will be officially presented with sports equipment, washing machines, cooking ovens, professional tools and machinery, and other goods total worth 2 227 000 rubles.

The long list of sports equipment donated to the children covers everything they need for active recreation and exercise in any season. This includes touring gear and tents for the summer, hockey sticks and skates for the winter and training machines for indoor workouts.

Commenting on this event Polyus Gold CEO Evgueni Ivanov said: «We want to give children more opportunities for harmonic development, to help them discover new interests. This is why we chose youth sports as the subject of our charity. We wish to expand and improve this project in the future».

First Gold is a charity program initiated by Polyus Gold together with Russian Chamber of Industry and Commerce charity fund in 2005. The goal of this program is to promote sports among young orphans by supplying sports equipment to orphanages.

In the framework of the program Polyus Gold donated some 5.5 million rubles to supply sports equipment to 17 orphanages in Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, and Magadan regions.