About

Oleg Deripaska established the Volnoe Delo Foundation in 1998. The Foundation supports a wide range of initiatives with a particular focus on education and children. The Foundation’s mission is to find effective solutions to key social problems in areas such as education, the development of science, the preservation of spiritual and cultural heritage, the improvement of health care, and increased access to social welfare and assistance.

Volnoe Delo has expanded rapidly with its budget increasing 17-fold in the last seven years alone. A decade after being established, the Foundation has already allocated over 230 million dollars to support over 400 charity programmes.

Recipients of the Foundation include more than 86,000 schoolchildren, 4,000 teachers, 8,000 undergraduate students, 4,000 academics, 1,000 pensioners, and more than 1,100 educational, scientific, cultural, healthcare, sport, religious and other establishments.

The Foundation supports the Moscow and St Petersburg state universities, the Hermitage Museum, Bolshoi and Mariinsky theatres, and many other educational, cultural, historical and religious centres in more than 40 Russian regions.