OREANDA-NEWS. June 17, 2015. In May 2015 UTair Aviation was once again ranked in the top 100 list of the largest socially responsible companies in Russia by the Political and Economic Communications Agency. Companies on the list were ranked according to responses gathered from 40 prominent experts, including representatives of leading social-economic organizations, consulting agencies, research and media institutions.

The expert community gave special recognition for the project dedicated to the celebration of the 70th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War implemented by UTair in cooperation with its partners LG Electronics and Eldorado. The 70th Anniversary of Victory Blood Drive, held in support of the Russian Ministry of Healthcare and the Federal Biomedical Agency Program for Development of Voluntary Blood Donation on a Massive Scale, took place in five Hero Cities and Cities of Military Glory across the country. Donor Days organized in Smolensk, Saint Petersburg, Voronezh, Rostov-on-Don and Volgograd gathered more than 700 participants. Talks on the importance of corporate volunteering in blood drives were attended by more than 950 students from regional universities in cities of the Blood Drive. As usual, the UTair social imitative was supported by famed Russian sportsmen: Maria Butyrskaya, Alexey Tikhonov, Maria Petrova, Alexander Legkov, Dmitry Sautin, Albert Demchenko and Elena Slesarenko.

During the national holiday period celebrating the Anniversary of Victory Day, UTair transported more than 170 Veterans of the Great Patriotic War and their chaperones, providing them with complimentary airfare to selected destinations. In addition, veterans of the Great Patriotic War are eligible for one complimentary flight to any destination within the vast UTair network at any time of the year through UTair's year-round Veteran promotional offer.

“As a core Russian enterprise, UTair Aviation prioritizes activities aimed at consecutive implementation of socially important initiatives,” said UTair – Passenger Airlines President Oleg Semenov. He emphasized that UTair social initiatives had been repeatedly recognized by the expert community, while the scope and social importance of these projects had been scaled up considerably.

UTair Aviation is the core enterprise of UTair Group consisting of companies performing aircraft operations with fixed and rotary wing aircraft as well as enterprises offering MRO, personnel training, flight services and air transportation sales services. The Group includes UTair-Express, UTair – Helicopter Services, Turuhan, Vostok Airlines, Helisur, UTair Europe, UTair South Africa, UTair India, TS-Technik, UTair-Engineering, Ural Aviation Services, UTG and other enterprises. In 2014 UTair Group aircraft transported 11,204,598 passengers to more than 110 destinations, including 50 unique destinations.