I'm glad to meet you and have a pleasure to introduce you to the Sputnik travel and transport corporation in Nizhnevartovsk, Ugra Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Region.
Ugra is a basis of Russian economics as well as one of the most stable and socially developed regions in Russia.

Our corporation, enjoying equal rights, is a part of the Sputnik joint-stock holding company that has been holding a leading position in Russian travel industry for over forty five years now and successfully operates in the sphere of social tourism and in the international market of travel services, being one of the major companies in the world.

In 1991, due to the fact that it had wide experience in the sphere of international youth tourism, Sputnik gained a license to distribute ISIC certificates on the territory of Russia.
ISIC program is one of the social segments of our work. In the course of this program we support students by using a discount system for travel services (this system is functioning in 90 countries all over the world). The Sputnik social and educational programs were highly appreciated by political and clerical leaders of Russia - Patriarch of Moscow and all Russia Alexiy II, mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov, ex-president of this country Boris Eltsin.

The Sputnik holding company comprises over 150 agencies with different types of proprietorship both in Russia and abroad - in former Soviet republics, Germany, England, USA, Hungary, Poland etc.
The company started its activities in Nizhnevartovsk - one of the largest cities of the Ugra Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Region - in 1986 when it opened its agency here. With time the Nizhnevartovsk Sputnik has transformed in the travel and transport corporation and took up a leading position in the regional market of travel services. A wide variety and high standard of the rendered services as well as flawless fulfillment of the commitments undertaken built up an excellent business reputation for Sputnik. This is confirmed by a Trust Certificate received from the State Tax Department of Russian Federation. The company is included in the register of the Ugra Chamber of Commerce and Industry. "Profit is above all but honor is above profit" is a motto and a rule that guides personnel activities of the Sputnik travel and transport corporation in Nizhnevartovsk. Having huge experience in organizing tours to Italy, Spain, Turkey, Bulgaria and other countries, medical treatments in Russia and abroad, tours for kids, receptions of business delegations and VIP's as well as in distribution of ISIC certificates, our corporation was the first in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Region to start the development of local tourism by elaboration of the program "Ugra is a territory of love".

We live in the unique part of the earth where not only the fifth ton of Russian oil is produced; this is the land, picturesque and full of mysteries, where the enchanting culture of old Northern nations, the Khanty and the Mancy, has been preserved.
Right next to the civilization of cities there are quiet rivers and great expanses of taiga with their intact beauty - just what those who like wildlife, hunting and fishing need.
"Ugra is a territory of love" program has perfectly matched activities of the Ugra administration that aim at developing tourism industry in our northern land.

We will be glad to welcome all who are eager to see for themselves the unknown, get fresh impressions and sensations, relish Siberian hospitality and cordiality.

Tatiana Zhigulina,
Director,
Sputnik Travel and Transport Corporation