On June 23, 2025, in Moscow, during the official visit of Assimi Goïta, President of the Transition Period of the Republic of Mali, the Governments of Russia and Mali signed an intergovernmental agreement on cooperation in the peaceful use of atomic energy. The agreement was signed by Alexey Likhachev, Director General of Rosatom, and Boubacar…
On 20 of June 2025, in Moscow, Rosatom’s company that runs irradiation projects and the Atomic Energy Agency of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan signed a Memorandum on Cooperation. Azim Akhmedkhadzhayev, Director of Uzatom, and Artur Kolontayev, Director General of Rosatom’s company that runs irradiation projects, signed the document. The Memorandum…
On June 20, on the margins of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, Alexey Likhachev, Director General of State Corporation Rosatom, and Almasadam Satkaliev, Chairman of the Agency for Atomic Energy of the Republic of Kazakhstan, met to discuss the implementation of the project for building a nuclear power plant in the Republic of Kazakhstan.…
On 20 June, on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, the Atomic Energy Agency under the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Uzbekistan (Uzatom) and Rosatom signed an agreement to study the possibilities of implementing a project to construct a large nuclear power plant in the Republic of Uzbekistan. The signing…
June 19, 2025, 16:35 The meeting addressed matters pertaining to the development of long-term cooperation in the gas sector. For instance, attention was paid to the cooperation in gas supplies, transmission and processing. Background St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2025 is being held from June 18 to 21. The main theme of this year’s Forum is “Shared Values: The Foundation of Growth in a Multipolar World.” Information…
June 19, 2025, 15:00 The parties noted the high reliability of Russian gas supplies to Belarusian consumers and responsible performance of Gazprom’s subsidiary Gazprom Transgaz Belarus as regards the operation of the republic’s gas transmission system. Particular attention at the meeting was paid to the successful cooperation between Gazprom and Belarusian enterprises and the prospects for its development. Background St. Petersburg International…
June 19, 2025, 14:50 The parties discussed the matters pertaining to the current and future gas supplies. It was highlighted at the meeting that Russia and Hungary have a long history of reliable and mutually beneficial partnership in the energy sector. The year 2025 marks the 50th anniversary of Russian gas supplies to Hungary. Background St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2025 is being held…
On June 19, 2025, in Saint Petersburg, during the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF 2025), an Agreement on Cooperation in the Peaceful Use of Nuclear Energy was signed between the Government of the Russian Federation and the Government of Burkina Faso. The document was signed on behalf of Russia by Alexey Likhachev, Director General…
Background The Comita Group of Companies is an alliance of companies specializing in automation, information technologies, telecommunications, and construction. Gazprom and the Comita Group of Companies are implementing the Scientific & Technical Cooperation and Partnership Program for 2024–2028. St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2025 is being held from June 18 to 21. The main theme of this year’s Forum is “Shared Values: The Foundation of Growth…
Background St. Petersburg International Economic Forum 2025 is being held from June 18 to 21. The main theme of this year’s Forum is “Shared Values: The Foundation of Growth in a Multipolar World.” Slovensky Plynarensky Priemysel a.s. (SPP a.s.) is the largest supplier of natural gas in Slovakia. The company is engaged in sales and purchase of natural gas and electric power and is active in the area of gas transportation…
June 17, 2025, 18:40 Under the relevant contracts concluded with Russian citizens, gas pipelines are laid up to the boundaries of land plots at no cost to the consumers. The construction of gas networks is speeding up. For instance, a total of 99,100 contracts were fulfilled from January through May 2025, which is a 27 per cent increase versus the same period of last year. Three quarters of the construction…
June 9, 2025, 20:25 Taking part in the opening ceremony on the birthday of Peter the Great were Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, and Andrey Golovnyov, Director of the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (the Kunstkamera) of the RAS. The Astronomical Hall and the Globe of Gottorf will for the first time ever be available for regular tours.…
Petrozavodskmash Factory (Rosatom’s Mechanical Engineering Division) shipped to Unit 4 of Xudapu NPP (China) an emergency core cooling system (ECCS) vessel designed for automatic liquid supply to the reactor (may be required in case of pressure drop in the primary circuit). The shipment ceremony became one of the central events of the celebration of the…
June 4, 2025, 12:20 According to Gas Infrastructure Europe, working gas inventories contained in Europe’s underground gas storage facilities amounted to 48.6 billion cubic meters as of May 31. This figure is 1.5 times (21.8 billion cubic meters) less than on the same day in 2024. At the same time, in May, a total of 8.9 billion cubic meters of gas were injected into European UGS facilities, which…
May 30, 2025, 14:45 Famil Sadygov, Deputy Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee: “Gazprom started the year 2025 confidently. In January-March, the key financial indicators of the Group remained high. The Gazprom Group’s revenue for the first quarter of 2025 rose to RUB 2,809 billion. A significant contribution to the final result was made by the gas business, as its share in the Group’s total revenue increased to 60 per…
Background The supplies of Russian gas to China via the Power of Siberia gas pipeline started in 2019 under the long-term Sales and Purchase Agreement between Gazprom and CNPC. Each year since 2020, the supplies have been in excess of the annual contractual obligations of Gazprom. On December 1, 2024, following China’s request, the daily exports via the Power of Siberia gas pipeline were brought to the maximum contractual…
Specialists of the Shared Access Additive Technology Center (SADTC), which was created with the support of Rosatom on the basis of Tomsk Polytechnic University, designed and 3D-printed the first lot of tooling for the manufacture of complex components of medical equipment, e.i. urological extractor baskets. Urological extractors are actively used in the treatment of urolithiasis…
May 29, 2025, 14:20 A total of 6,700 households and 40 boiler houses were provided with the possibility to switch to network gas. To that end, Gazprom built 96 inter-settlement and intra-settlement gas pipelines. Inter alia, in April, the Company completed the construction of the inter-settlement gas pipeline to seven localities in the Kaluga Region: the villages of Bryukhovo, Durakovo, Nikitsk, Sverdlovo, Tishinino, as well as the rural settlements…
On May 21, 2025, the second expert session of the BRICS-based Nuclear Energy Platform took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, under the title “Prospects for the Development of Financing Instruments for Nuclear Energy Projects.” The event was held on the sidelines of the NT2E exhibition and continued the initiative to deepen interstate cooperation in…
An agreement on cooperation in the area of low-carbon energy use between ROSATOM and Roscongress Foundation was signed on May, 22, in St. Petersburg at the venue of the XI Nevsky International Ecological Congress. Alexey Likhachev, Director General of ROSATOM, and Alexander Stuglev, Chairman of the Board and Director of Roscongress Foundation, affixed their signatures…
May 22, 2025, 15:37 The deadline for the submission of voting ballots is June 26, 2025. Time period to be observed and methods to be used for the submission of voting ballots. Only the votes represented by voting ballots and declarations of intention that are received before 06:00 pm (Moscow time) on June 26, 2025, are to be taken into account to determine whether the quorum of the absentee voting…
ZiO-Podolsk (Rosatom’s Machine-Building Division) finished manufacturing the first RITM-400 reactor unit for Rossiya nuclear icebreaker, which will be the most powerful in the world. The command to finish the work on the first RITM-400 was given by Valentina Matvienko, Chair of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, and Alexey Likhachev,…
Isotope – Regional Alliance, Joint-Stock Company (Isotope JSC, part of Rosatom’s Scientific Division) will supply technetium-99m generator sets to the Kyrgyz Republic on a regular basis. The company will provide radiopharmaceutical products to the National Center of Oncology and Hematology in Bishkek within the framework of the national project of the technical cooperation program of…
The AEM-Special Steels metallurgical plant (Rosatom’s Mechanical Engineering Division enterprise) cast a 205-ton ingot of special alloy steel. It will be used by machine builders to create a flange for the RITM-200N reactor vessel for the low-power nuclear power plant (LPNPP) under construction in Uzbekistan that is designed by Rosatom. Rosatom held a presentation of…
Rosatom and Vietnam have signed an interdepartmental roadmap for the development of nuclear technologies for the period up to 2030. The document was signed by Alexey Likhachev, Director General of Rosatom, and Nguyen Manh Hung, Minister of Science and Technology of Vietnam. The roadmap covers the construction of a nuclear science and technology center, the…
Rosatom is the general partner of the 11th Nevsky International Ecological Congress which will be held on May 22-23 in Saint Petersburg, at the Tavrichesky Palace. This year’s event will be held under the motto: Planet Earth: Living in Harmony with Nature. It is organized by the Government of the Russian Federation, the Federation Council…
Rosatom took part in the 16th China International Exhibition on Nuclear Power Industry (CIENPI 2025) held in Beijing (China) on April 27–29, 2025 that brought together more than 100 participating organizations, including the world’s largest energy companies, research institutes and Chinese government agencies. Rosatom presented an interactive exposition of 4th generation Russian nuclear power systems…
April 30, 2025, 15:45 Famil Sadygov, Deputy Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee: “In 2024 , the Gazprom Group demonstrated excellent performance in terms of several key financial indicators, which proved the efficiency and stability of its business model. A significant contribution to this was made in the fourth quarter of 2024, as said period is traditionally the time of strong results for Gazprom due to seasonality. For…
On April 28, 2025, the President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev visited Rosatom’s booth at the international industrial exhibition “INNOPROM. Central Asia.” Rosatom Director General Alexey Likhachev presented technological solutions in nuclear energy and electromobility. The Corporation’s exhibit featured a standard model of a land-based small modular reactor (SMR) based on Russian-designed RITM-200N reactors. This proven…
Federal Service for Environmental, Technological and Nuclear Supervision (hereinafter – Rostechnadzor) has granted a license for installation of reactor plant of Unit 5 with BN-1200M reactor at Beloyarsk NPP, to Electric Power Division of Rosatom. The general designer and general contractor is the Engineering Division of Rosatom. For obtaining the license, a package of documents…
April 24, 2025, 14:05 It was noted that, during the period of the traditionally increased gas demand, Gazprom once again provided reliable energy supplies to Russian and foreign consumers. Special attention was paid to the gas supplies that serve the needs of the population, power generation and public utility enterprises in Russia. New all-time highs were reached in terms of gas supplies. In October and November…
April 22, 2025, 14:55 In 2024, this figure with regard to all groups of Gazprom’s gas consumers, i.e. Russian residents, industrial and public utility enterprises totaled 98.2 per cent. The development of the convenient Personal Account digital service is among the factors positively affecting the payment collection rate. Every third Gazprom’s client is already using the Personal Account service. The Company’s clients…
April 22, 2025, 14:40 The Belogorsk – Khabarovsk gas pipeline will connect the existing Power of Siberia and Sakhalin – Khabarovsk – Vladivostok gas pipelines. This is the primary stage of the “Eastern Gas Supply System (EGSS)” Gas Trunkline System project. The EGSS project provides for a comprehensive development of gas transmission capacities in eastern Russia and their further integration with the gas transmission system…
Rosatom participated in the 10th Carbon Summit, which took place on 14-15 April 2025 in Istanbul. The annual event brings together representatives from Turkish ministries, government bodies, non-profit organizations, banks, green energy industry leaders, and top Turkish experts, serving as a key platform for dialogue on clean energy and environmental issues. This year, the summit,…
Background BOTAS, a Turkish state-owned oil-and-gas company, is one of the biggest players in Türkiye’s natural gas market. For almost 40 years, BOTAS has been Türkiye’s main importer of Russian gas. In addition, the constructive interaction between Gazprom and BOTAS made it possible to successfully implement the Blue Stream project and the TurkStream project. In particular, the parties jointly built the transit gas pipeline across Türkiye stretching…
The construction of a civil and erection base (CEB) has begun as part of the low-power NPP project with RITM-200N reactor, which is being implemented under the Russian design in Jizzakh region of Uzbekistan. The civil and erection base will provide the necessary areas for administrative and production buildings over the entire period of construction…
April 10, 2025, 19:00 The recently reached daily high for gas supplies is already topped: on April 9, as many as 1.217 billion cubic meters of gas were delivered to consumers via the Unified Gas Supply System of Russia. The growth in gas consumption by Russian residents is due to an abnormally cold weather being observed in the Central, Northwestern and Southern Federal Districts of Russia. Background The previous…
April 10, 2025, 18:50 An eco-friendly and cost-efficient energy source was made available to 3,100 households and 16 boiler houses. For instance, a new gas pipeline in the southeastern part of the Vladimir urban territory made it possible, for the first time ever, to deliver gas to consumers in the villages of Abbakumovo, Vilki and Zlobino, as well as to increase gas supplies to the settlements of Seltso and Shirmanikha. In the Kirov Region,…
April 10, 2025, 18:40 It was proposed to set the deadline for the submission of voting ballots as June 26, 2025. The Management Committee approved: the draft agenda of the absentee voting to be held for decision-making by the Shareholders Meeting; the proposal on the procedure for notifying shareholders about the absentee voting for decision-making by the Shareholders Meeting, as well as the draft notice on the holding of said voting; the…
April 9, 2025, 20:05 The record was set on April 8 at 1.188 billion cubic meters of gas. The growth in gas consumption by Russian residents is due to an abnormally cold weather being observed in the Central, Northwestern and Southern Federal Districts of Russia. Gazprom is providing reliable gas supplies in the required volumes. Background The previous daily maximum for April was recorded 13 years ago on April…
On 4 April, the closing ceremony for the tenth anniversary AtomSkills-2025 professional expertise championship took place at the Ekaterinburg-Expo International Exhibition Center. According to the tradition, the championship was held in an international format. This year event brought together over 2,000 participants and experts from Russia, China, Turkey, Egypt, Bangladesh, South Africa, Uzbekistan, Belarus, Indonesia,…
April 4, 2025, 09:30 The works were in progress from March 28 to April 4. At the request of the Chinese party, Gazprom arranged the preventive maintenance at the Power of Siberia’s facilities in such a way as to ensure that the gas supplies continue during the period of such works; the volumes of the gas supplies provided during such period had been specially agreed by the parties. Upon completion of the…
April 3, 2025, 12:15 According to Gas Infrastructure Europe (GIE), gas reserves contained in Europe’s underground gas storage facilities decreased to 34.3 billion cubic meters as of March 31, accounting for a third of the total storage facilities’ volume and being 25.3 billion cubic meters lower than a year ago. Thus, as much as 62.9 billion cubic meters of gas were already withdrawn from the facilities by the…
The Yekaterinburg Expo hosted the 10th AtomSkills-2025 Professional Skills Championship. The opening ceremony was held on 30 March. This year’s anniversary championship is taking place in an international format with participants from China, Turkey, Egypt, Bangladesh, Belarus and several other countries. This year AtomSkills competitions, both for the professional and student leagues, encompass 44 skills,…
On March 27, Russian President Vladimir Putin visited the base of Atomflot FSUE in Murmansk, including the Headquarters of Marine Operations of the Northern Sea Route General Administration, Federal State Budgetary Institution (NSR General Administration FSBI). The meeting was attended by Alexey Likhachev, Director General of Rosatom; Yakov Antonov, Acting Director General of Atomflot FSUE;…
Rosatom’s top managers took part in the VI International Arctic Forum “The Arctic -the Territory of Dialogue”. In particular, at the key session of the Forum on “Long-Term Development Model for the Northern Sea Route (the NSR)”, Alexey Likhachev, Director General of Rosatom, spoke about the conditions needed to increase cargo traffic along the northern…
March 26, 2025, 17:35 The parties discussed the current state of and the outlook for Türkiye’s natural gas market. It was noted that constructive cooperation between Gazprom and private importers of natural gas to Türkiye in general, and Bosphorus Gaz Corporation A.S. in particular, has been ongoing for as many as 15 years already. Information Directorate, Gazprom Investment Community Gazprom on social media Related news
The finishing welding to connect the parts of the VVER-1200 vessel for unit 1 of the El Dabaa NPP has been finished at the Izhora Plant in St. Petersburg (the NPP is being constructed by Rosatom’s Engineering division in Egypt). The welding to connect the vessel’s parts took 10 days, with the weld area being…
On March 20, 2025, the first concrete was poured for the foundation of the reactor building at Unit 4 of Leningrad NPP-2. The construction is part of the capacity replacement program at the plant, a subsidiary of Rosenergoatom, Rosatom’s Electric Power Division. Representatives from the Belarusian NPP, El Dabaa NPP (Egypt), and Rooppur NPP (Bangladesh)…
Sherali Kabir, Minister of Industry and New Technologies of Tajikistan and Alexey Likhachev, Director General of Rosatom, exchanged folders with the signed G-to-G agreement as part of a meeting between President of the Republic of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon and President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin in Moscow on March 17. The agreement outlines the…
Hydraulic 24.5 MPa tests have been successfully completed in terms of density and strength at the primary circuit systems and equipment of the Rooppur NPP power unit No. 1 which is being built in the People’s Republic of Bangladesh by the Rosatom Engineering Division. The process included several stages, such as preliminary preparation, filling the…
From September 26 to September 30, 2025, the World Atomic Week international forum dedicated to the nuclear industry and related fields will take place at the Exhibition of National Economy Achievements (VDNH) in Moscow. The event will bring together the leaders of the countries developing their national nuclear programs, as well as government officials, representatives…
Rosatom will co-host the “The Arctic – A Territory of Dialogue” international Arctic forum in Murmansk on March 26-27. Two sessions hosted by Rosatom are scheduled to coincide with the 500th anniversary of the first reference to the Northern Sea Route (NSR). These include “The Long-Term NSR Development Model”, the key session of the Forum,…
On March 11, 2025, ZiO-Podolsk JSC (a company of Rosatom’s Mechanical Engineering Division) along with the start of the flange machining operations started assembling the RITM-200 unit intended for the new-generation universal nuclear icebreaker Leningrad (the keel-laying ceremony was held in 2024 with the participation of Russian President Vladimir Putin). Maxim Tyukavkin, Deputy Head of…
On March 5, the National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (MEPhI) held an opening ceremony for the Laboratory for Regenerative Technologies and Tissue Engineering. The Laboratory, set up with the support of Rosatom, will grow biocompatible equivalents of blood vessels using patients’ cells. The biofabricator developed by Rosatom scientists will simulate tissue growth at the micro…
On 4 March, an intergovernmental agreement on principles of cooperation in the construction of a SMR (small modular reactor) in Myanmar was signed during the state visit of Myanmar’s leadership to Russia. The document was signed in the presence of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, Chairman of the State Administration…
The ROSATOM representatives took part in the International Youth Forum for Sustainable Nuclear Technologies has ended in Egypt. This event was organized by the Egyptian Nuclear Power Plant Authority (NPPA) in partnership with ROSATOM. The Forum united more than 350 people from 25 countries – representatives of government and public organizations, universities, including experts, young…
March 4, 2025, 11:25 The volume of gas supplied by Gazprom exceeded the contractual amount. This is the third record set since December 1, 2024, when the exports via the Power of Siberia gas pipeline had been brought to the maximum contractual level. Russian gas supplies are performed under the long-term Sales and purchase agreement between Gazprom and CNPC. Information Directorate, Gazprom…
March 3, 2025, 18:55 According to Gas Infrastructure Europe (GIE), gas reserves remaining in Europe’s UGS facilities amount to 39.2 billion cubic meters as of February 28, the last day of the calendar winter. Said gas reserves account for 38.5 per cent of the total storage facilities’ volume, with this amount being 24.3 billion cubic meters lower than a year ago. The average gas…
On 27 February, the crew of the Arktika, Atomflot’s lead universal nuclear icebreaker, assisted the Nikifor Begichev in mooring at the ice platform in Slobodskaya Bay. The unloading of construction materials from the ship onto the ice berth has begun. “For the first time, a nuclear icebreaker assisted a ship in mooring in Slobodskaya Bay,”…