Social Policy
VTB Bank is active in sponsoring sports, culture and health care and is very much involved in charity projects. It has been supporting the KAMAZ-Master rally team since 2005 and sponsored several sports teams, including FC Dynamo Moscow since 2008, the Dynamo five-a-side football team and the HC Dynamo Moscow since 2010, the national women’s basketball team since 2008, the national men’s volleyball team since 2011, and Russia’s Gymnastics Federation. The bank is an official partner of the International Association of Athletics Federations. VTB also sponsors the Russian Volleyball Federation. In 2008, it founded the VTB United League, an international professional basketball league, a joint project with the Russian Basketball Federation.
Over the past few years, VTB Bank has provided support to Russia’s leading museums and theatres. It is a member of the Bolshoi Theatre Board of Trustees. It has been the general partner of the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg since 2006. It also supports Moscow’s Fomenko Studio Theatre. VTB has been a member of the Tretyakov Gallery’s Board of Trustees since 2002. It is also a member of the Friends of the Russian Museum International Society. The bank’s corporate charity programme World Without Tears provides targeted support to children’s healthcare centres.
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