The lecture hall of the Gazprom Pavilion at the RUSSIA EXPO hosted a meeting with the pilots who made the world's first high-altitude jump from the stratosphere to the North Pole. The record-breaking jump project was supported by Gazprom. Mikhail Kornienko, pilot-cosmonaut, Hero of Russia, member of the Russian Geographical Society, and Denis Yefremov, founder of the Stratonautics aerospace laboratory, engineer of space and stratospheric technology, certified rescuer of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, told how the jump was prepared and what tasks the unique project solved. The idea of the jump belongs to the third participant of the project - flight instructor Alexander Lynnik.

During the RUSSIA EXPO days, the Gazprom pavilion lecture hall regularly hosts cultural, educational, sports and entertainment events: meetings, open dialogues with popular bloggers, writers, athletes, photographers, travelers, authors of scientific and engineering solutions, masterclasses introducing the culture and customs of Russian peoples living from the Far East to Kaliningrad, sports broadcasts, children's movie screenings and meetings with favorite children's cartoon characters.

In the lecture hall of the Gazprom Pavilion at the RUSSIA EXPO, Olympic champions, honored athletes, coaches and heads of sports clubs shared their secrets of success, useful tips and discussed Gazprom's great role in supporting sports in Russia.