JSC "Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works"- the largest manufacturer in the field of ferrous metallurgy in our country. The Company owns the largest metallurgical plant in Russia, located in the Chelyabinsk Region.
The company is controlled by structures close to top management. As of July 1, 2009, 87.26% of OJSC MMK's shares are owned by the nominal holder OOO " Investment company"Settlement and Fund Center", 9.71% - CJSC "ING BANK (Eurasia)", and a little more than three percent - in the hands of minority shareholders.
The main production enterprise of the group is the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works, which, together with a number of related companies, provides full complex operations from extraction and preparation iron ore to deep processing of steel and cast iron. Meanwhile, the enterprises of the group are provided with raw materials by the forces of companies not included in the Holding. Raw materials are purchased, among other things, from OAO Mechel.
The group of companies traces its history back to 1932, when the first blast furnace was launched at the plant in Magnitogorsk.
A) enterprises providing the technological process at the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works:
LLC NPO Avtomatika;
. LLC "Motor transport management";
. LLC "Bakal Mining Administration";
. LLC "Magnitogorsk service center";
. JSC "Magnitogorsk cement-refractory plant";
. ZAO "Mekhanoremontny complex";
. LLC "Minimax";
. OOO "MMK Trading Stroy";
. LLC "MRK-Remont";
. OOO "Ogneupor";
. LLC "Remput";
. CJSC "Russian Metallurgical Company";
. CJSC "Construction complex";
. LLC "Shlakservis";
. LLC "Electroremont";
B) enterprises for deep processing of ferrous metals:
ZAO "Interkos-IV";
. JSC "Magnitogorsk Hardware and Calibration Plant "MMK-METIZ";
. JSC "MMK-Profil-Moscow";
C) companies that ensure the sale of the holding's products:
JSC "Bashmetalloptorg";
. OOO "Trading House MMK";
. LLC "Trading House MMK-Moscow";
. LLC "Trading House MMK-Ural";
D) financial investment companies:
LLC "Region";
. LLC "Investment company "RFTS";
. OOO " Management Company RFC-Capital.
The main types of products manufactured by the company:
Development strategy JSC "MMK" is aimed at increasing the security manufacturing enterprises groups own raw materials through the acquisition of rights to develop new deposits and the construction of extractive enterprises, as well as through the acquisition of companies in the mining industry; on the constant introduction of new technologies and the modernization of existing facilities. In 2007, the plant adopted an investment program, according to which by 2013 it is planned to allocate more than 10 billion dollars for the modernization of production. In addition, the MMK Group seeks closer cooperation among the Holding's enterprises in order to increase efficiency.
In 2008, the gross proceeds of the OAO Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works group amounted to 225,972.4 million rubles, and profit before tax - 15,602,800 thousand rubles. The enterprise produced in 2008 12 million tons of steel and 11 million tons of metal products.
Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of September 30, 1943 for the exemplary performance of tasks State Committee Defense to provide the military industry with high-quality metal Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works. Stalin of the People's Commissariat of Ferrous Metallurgy of the USSR was awarded the Order of Lenin 
By the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of March 31, 1945, for the successful fulfillment of the tasks of the State Defense Committee to provide the military industry with high-quality and high-quality metal, the Magnitogorsk Order of Lenin Metallurgical Plant named after Stalin was awarded the Order of the Red Banner of Labor
Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of January 4, 1971 for the exemplary performance by the team of the plant of tasks to ensure National economy metal and achievement of high technical and economic indicators Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works named after V. I. Lenin of the Ministry of Ferrous Metallurgy of the USSR was awarded the Order of Lenin 
By the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of January 28, 1982, the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works named after V.I. Lenin of the Ministry of Ferrous Metallurgy of the USSR was awarded the Order of the October Revolution 
By the Decree of the Russian Public Commission No. 7 dated December 17, 2001, for outstanding services and achievements in the development of the economy, contributing to the prosperity, glory and greatness of Russia, OJSC "Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works" was awarded the Order of Peter the Great
History and activities
Today, the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works is a modern highly profitable enterprise, one of the 20 largest steel companies in the world. It is the largest metallurgical complex in Russia with a full production cycle.
OJSC MMK produces the widest, to date, range of steel products among enterprises Russian Federation and CIS countries. Magnitka is the only Russian manufacturer of high-quality cold-rolled strip and tinplate. In terms of sales volumes, OAO MMK has best performance among metallurgical enterprises Russia.
June 1743. On the banks of the Yaik River, now the Urals, the Magnitnaya fortress was founded.
1747. Miners of the industrialist I. B. Tverdyshev carried out a pit pit on Mount Magnitnaya, as a result of which the breeder announces that he has found a mine "near the Yaik River, following the example of a distance of eight versts from it, also from the mouth of the Upper Kizilu River, eight versts to a mountain called Atichi three places."
1759. Ore mining began on Mount Magnitnaya for a plant built on the Tirlyanka River. 1912 After laying the first 12 wells and new research, Professor A. I. Zavaritsky reveals 87 million tons of high-quality iron ore on Mount Magnitnaya.
1917 The first magnetometric survey of Magnetic Mountain.
January 1929. At a joint meeting of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR and the Council of Labor and Defense, a decision was made to start construction of the Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Plant. By order of the Supreme Economic Council of the USSR, Magnitostroy was created - the largest construction site in the Soviet Union. March 10, 1929. The first builders arrived at Magnetic Mountain. June 30, 1929. The first train arrived at Magnitogorskaya station. From now on, this date is considered the birthday of the city of Magnitogorsk. July 1, 1930. 14 thousand workers at the construction site of the Magnitogorsk metallurgical giant laid the foundation stone for the 1st blast furnace.
November 1, 1930. The construction of the dam is completed. The workers laid over 30,000 cubic meters of concrete in a short period of time and built a kilometer-long overpass. October 23, 1931. The central power plant with a final capacity of 248,000 kilowatts provided the first electrical energy to Magnitogorsk. The construction of Magnitogorsk rallied 40 thousand people who created the flagship of the domestic metallurgy. December 28, 1931. Battery No. 3 of the coking plant produced the first coke. Contrary to the calculations of American specialists, who tried to prove that the construction of this production facility would require more than two years, the construction took less than a year.
February 1, 1932. Blast furnace No. 1 produced the first cast iron. This day went down in history as the birthday of the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works. June 1932. The first cast iron was produced by Domna No. 2, the legendary "Komsomolskaya Pravda". The annual output of the first stage of Magnitogorsk was to be about 4 million tons of metal - three times more than what was produced in the Urals in 1930. The number of inhabitants of Magnitogorsk exceeded 200 thousand people.
August 26, 1532 - One of the first sound cinemas in the Urals, Magnit, was opened in Magnitogorsk. September 1, 1932. The first classes at the Magnitogorsk Mining and Metallurgical Institute. The blacksmith shop was put into operation. A crushing plant was put into operation at the mine of Mount Magnitnaya. July 5, 1933. The first steel smelting was produced at the open-hearth furnace No. 1. 1933 Three open-hearth furnaces were put into operation, the 4th blast furnace was blown out, blooming No. 2 began to work. August 5, 1934. The first section rolling mill "500" was put into operation in Magnitogorsk. With the launch of this unit, MMK became major supplier long products and turned into a metallurgical enterprise with a complete metallurgical cycle.
1934 The first heats were issued at three new open-hearth furnaces. By the end of the year, 32,000 people studied at universities, technical schools and evening schools in Magnitogorsk. 1935 Three more open-hearth furnaces were put into operation. The master plan of the city on the right bank of the Ural River was approved. 1936 - 1940s. Five open-hearth furnaces were put into operation. The construction of heavy-duty blast furnace No. 5 has begun.
July 1941. The first armored steel of Magnitogorsk was smelted at open-hearth furnace No. 3. For the first time in the history of world metallurgy, an armor plate was rolled on blooming No. 3. 1941 The most powerful thick-walled armored camp "4500" in the USSR, evacuated from Mariupol, was put into operation. By the end of the year, 3,638 women had replaced husbands, brothers, and fathers at the plant who had gone to the front. The first such was smelted in open-hearth furnace No. 18. 1943 Open-hearth workers of Magnitogorsk have mastered the production of high-quality, armor-piercing steel. The country's largest blast furnace No. 6 was put into operation. 1947 The Magnitogorsk rolling mill "300" became the first complex-automated unit of this type in the country.
1951 The broadband rolling plant "1450" was put into operation, consisting of two mills: hot-rolling mill-2 and cold-rolling mill-2. 1954 - Three open-hearth furnaces were put into operation. 1956 - The shop for galvanized sewing utensils was put into operation. The five-stand mill was put into operation. Sheet-rolling shop No. 3 is ready for launch. 1959 A slab was put into operation, one of the largest in the world in terms of its capacity. Two open-hearth furnaces were put into operation.
1960 The first sheet was produced at the "2500" hot rolling mill. The first open-hearth steel was smelted in two new furnaces. 1961 - 1963 years. A new blast-furnace slag granulation plant was put into operation. The mold shop was put into operation. Two open-hearth furnaces and Domna No. 9 were built - built taking into account the latest achievements of science and technology. 1969 Sheet-rolling shop No. 5 was put into operation.
1972 The first stage of the new mine of the Maly Kuzbass plant with a capacity of 1,700,000 tons of ore per year has been put into operation. 1979 LPTs-6 gave the country the first million of electrolytic tin plate. 1981 The 8-bis coke oven battery with a capacity of 1 million tons of coke per year was put into operation. 1982 On Victory Square there is a monument "Tank" with the inscription: "During the war years, every second tank and every third shell was made of Magnitogorsk steel." November 14, 1985. The first group of envoys from the regional Komsomol arrived at the All-Union shock Komsomol construction site - an oxygen-converter shop. April 17, 1986 The first cubic meter of concrete was laid into the foundation of the oxygen-converter shop. But MMK began the last construction, carried out with state budget money. 1987 The MMK team switched to full cost accounting and self-financing. The construction of hot-rolling mill "2000" LPTs-10 has begun.
November 2, 1990 The first steel was welded in MMK's oxygen-converter shop. May 21, 1994. The group of rough flares of the hot rolling mill "2000" produced the first steel paste. Sheet-rolling shop No. 10 began work. October 14, 1994. The "2000" mill was put into operation. August 15, 1995. CJSC "Yuzhuralavtoban" is being created, which carries out complex repairs and construction of roads both in the Chelyabinsk region and beyond its borders. September 12, 1995. CJSC "Complex of New Technologies" was created, the main task of which is the production of products of the fifth and sixth stages. June 15, 1996. The first rolling rolls for the shops of the metallurgical complex were cast in the mold shop on the new EAF-12 electric furnace.
August 1997 For the first time in the world practice, Magnitogorsk steelmakers smelted armored steel in a converter. 1998 At MMK's by-product by-product plant, the first phase of the coke oven gas capture and processing shop was put into operation. The largest in the world in terms of gas processing - 240 cubic meters per hour. Emissions into the atmosphere decreased by 20 thousand tons per year. The most harmful emissions will be reduced by three-quarters. After reconstruction, blast furnace No. 1 was put into operation, the productivity of which increased to 3,000 tons of pig iron per day. May 14, 1999. A ceremonial commissioning of the second stage of the KHP capture shop took place. Technological process this workshop is fully automated. November 6, 1999 The first steel was smelted at converter No. 3 of an oxygen-converter Czech MMK. The N-1 coke oven battery was launched, which was stopped for repairs in 1992 and subjected to "cold" conservation.
January 2000 CJSC Complex of Deep Processing is being created, which produces road barriers, bent profiles, oil and gas pipelines and water pipes, cold-rolled galvanized steel strip and much more. March 5, 2000 Presentation of the first issue of OJSC MMK's bonds took place in the "President Hotel" in Moscow. Magnitka entered the stock market. June 2000 The IDI rotary kiln No. 4, the first stage of the workshop for the production of magnesia-dolomite refractories, completely renovated, with improved metal heating technology, blast furnace No. 2, the famous Komsomolka, the ladle furnace of the oxygen-converter shop were put into operation. September 1, 2000. The obsolete shaft furnaces No. 1 and No. 2 of lime-dolomite production, which had been operating since 1934, were decommissioned. With the closure of these furnaces, the gross emission of harmful substances into the environment has decreased by 6,000 tons annually. November 2000 A new wire hot rolling mill No. 3 "Kacks" is being built in the section shop. April 2001 The construction of a two-stand reversing steel sheet cold rolling mill has begun.
Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works exports about 60% of its products. Outside the country, the products of the oxygen-converter shop, section mills and almost all sheet shops are sold.
The geography of exports includes the countries of Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Eastern Europe and the CIS (the largest consumers of MMK's metal in the near abroad are Belarus, Ukraine and Kazakhstan). MMK has long-standing partnerships with enterprises and companies from the USA, Canada, Finland and Italy. The structure of exports is constantly changing in the direction of increasing sales of finished products.
MMK has been and remains a socially oriented enterprise, where concern is constantly shown not only for the material well-being of employees, but also for improving the recreation industry and improving the health of workers. At the disposal of metallurgists and their families are sports and recreation complexes, comfortable sanatoriums and boarding houses located in the corners of nature that are unique in their beauty, four children's health camps.
Thanks to OJSC MMK, in recent years, an athletics arena, an Ice Palace, a children's Ice Palace, a sports and recreation complex, a children's pool, and an Abzakovo ski center have been built in Magnitogorsk, which significantly contributed not only to the popularization of physical culture and sports, but also made a significant contribution to the development of the city's infrastructure.
Over the past decade, the hockey club has been one of the leaders in domestic hockey.
OJSC Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works is a modern highly profitable enterprise, one of the 20 largest steel companies in the world. It is the largest metallurgical complex in Russia with a full production cycle. OJSC MMK produces the widest range of steel products today among the enterprises of the Russian Federation and the CIS countries. Magnitka is the only Russian manufacturer of high-quality cold-rolled strip and tinplate. In terms of product sales, OJSC MMK has the best performance among Russian metallurgical enterprises. OJSC MMK is located in the very center of Russia, which determines the geography of sales both domestically and internationally. foreign market. Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works exports about 60% of its products. The geography of exports includes the countries of Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Eastern Europe and the CIS (the largest consumers of MMK's metal in the near abroad are Belarus, Ukraine and Kazakhstan). MMK has long-standing partnerships with enterprises and companies from the USA, Canada, Finland and Italy.
2002 was a special year for the metallurgists of Magnitogorsk - an anniversary. And he, like the previous ones, was marked by hard work at all stages of the metallurgical cycle and worthy results. The company continued its dynamic development. For the year, the increase in production amounted to an average of 7%. 9.7 million tons of finished products - finished steel - were produced, 11 million tons of steel were smelted, 9.3 million tons of cast iron, 5.3 million tons of coke, 9.5 million tons of sinter were produced. Products sold amounted to 60 billion rubles against 47 billion in 2001. The profit was about 12 billion rubles against 8 billion in the previous year.
The total number of employees in the existing metallurgical holding as of December 2002 amounted to 68,189 people (including members of their families, about 200 thousand people, i.e. almost half of the city's residents), of which 35,102 people are employees of OJSC MMK, 4,426 people work at the calibration plant, 43,921 people work at a hardware and metallurgical plant, 24,279 people work in other subsidiaries and institutions (1).
As a result, both domestic and foreign experts are unanimous in their opinion: the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works is today the leading enterprise in the domestic metallurgy. The total tax deductions of Magnitogorsk last year amounted to almost four billion rubles. The plant has no tax debts. It is quite natural that tax authorities issued a certificate of trust to the company.
The successes of recent years in the workforce of the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works are associated with the arrival in 1996 of a new team of managers headed by Viktor Filippovich Rashnikov, who worked his way at the plant from worker to general director. Today, the CEO of OJSC MMK also holds the post of president of the club of the best managers in Russia, which is a confirmation of his managerial abilities.
According to the estimates of the directors and members of the management teams, there have been major changes in the organizational and structural plan at the plant. The strongest changes affected sales, marketing, services working with suppliers, financial and economic services.
In the management of such big company, as OJSC MMK, it is worth highlighting:
Manufacturing control;
Financial and economic management;
Management of commercial matters;
Investment and strategic management;
Management of general issues;
Personnel Management;
Construction management.
Each block is headed by a director or deputy general director. However, despite the importance and need for structural reforms, the most important condition for the success of MMK is the professionalism of managers and competent personnel policy.
Personnel policy is an integral part of the general development strategy of OJSC MMK. It corresponds to its corporate ideology and culture and is aimed at ensuring the long-term competitiveness of OJSC MMK in the global metal products market.
Leaders at all levels of the management hierarchy act as ideologists and conductors of personnel policy. Directors for areas, heads of departments, chief specialists, managers structural divisions together with the Human Resources Department participate in the selection, evaluation and training personnel reserve management personnel.
The personnel policy of the enterprise is built in accordance with the following priorities.
Achievement international standards in all areas of activity.
Staffing of production and social development enterprises at all levels with highly qualified personnel.
Application of new technologies in personnel development and work with personnel.
Priority development of the personnel potential of OJSC MMK in accordance with the modernization of production and improvement of the management system.
Investing in personnel in line with the increasing requirements for qualifications, workplace and production.
Focus on social protection of OJSC MMK's personnel and pensioners, their interests and health.
This personnel policy has justified itself. Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works became the winner of the 2002 competition " Russian organization high social efficiency» in the nomination «Qualification of personnel, the system of their training and retraining». On this occasion, Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of the Russian Federation, Valentina Matvienko, said: “The fact that Magnitka was awarded a diploma of the first degree in this competition indicates that you are keeping up with the times. Today, enterprises that invest in the main thing - in human capital, in the education and training of workers, the creation of working conditions, systems social protection, as a rule, receive a double return on production, because social investments have a very serious impact on economic efficiency enterprises. Today it is obvious that the authorities alone cannot cope with the accumulated heap social problems. Experience shows that they can only be solved with the cooperation of government, business and society through the creation of a so-called system social partnership. Without it, we will never build a market economy focused on the good people. Therefore, I welcome the efforts that the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works is making to improve the social climate at the enterprise, taking care of veterans and young people. I believe that in this way the management of the plant looks to the future of its enterprise, not trying to make a profit at any cost, not dooming the enterprise to stagnation in the future” (2).
The position of the leadership of the metallurgical giant remains unchanged: “Time has changed, and life itself has changed with it,” says V. Rashnikov, General Director of OJSC MMK. - But the plant and the city continue to be a single entity, despite the forecasts of skeptics and all kinds of critics. The work of the plant is unthinkable without people hurrying to its workshops every day. But even its best results lose all meaning if they are achieved for the sake of an abstract benefit that does not benefit people. Construction of hospitals, schools, roads and housing, maintenance of Palaces of Culture, sanatoriums and children's health camps, creation whole system measures designed to improve the lives of Magnitogorsk residents - the capital invested in all this, the capital working for people and for the sake of people, cannot but pay off handsomely. For the plant, there are no “friends” and “strangers” in Magnitogorsk, because today there is no family in it whose history, one way or another, would not be involved in the history of MMK’s achievements and victories” (16).
JSC "Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works" is a city-forming and socially oriented enterprise.
The social policy of the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works is a vast layer, a vast field for the application of forces. It includes several areas of activity at once. This includes the creation of conditions for employees and their families to resolve all issues of life, and targeted social support veterans, disabled people, large families and other low-income categories, and the provision of facilities social sphere OJSC MMK of services to residents of the city and surrounding areas, and sponsorship, And charitable help public associations, various organizations of education, healthcare, culture, sports and other areas of public life, and participation in the development of the habitat.
Until recently, Magnitogorsk was one of the cities with the most unfavorable environment. But now a lot has changed. This happened primarily because the plant realized in time that the only and most effective way to improve the environment is the technical re-equipment of the enterprise with the replacement of existing production processes on low-waste and non-waste technologies, the introduction of new, modern treatment plants and the reconstruction of existing ones. The commissioning of the oxygen-converter shop made it possible to close most of the open-hearth furnaces, which are the most harmful to the environment. Many blast furnaces, sinter plants, and coke batteries were shut down or modernized.
A special role was played by the construction of Europe's largest coke oven gas complex treatment plant, thanks to which the amount of harmful emissions immediately decreased by 20 thousand tons per year. Moreover, the release of the most harmful substances that caused cancer, decreased by 7090. The construction of the workshop cost $ 200 million. On the whole, MMK's expenses for environmental protection annually amount to more than 800 million rubles. All this was not long in affecting the ecological situation in Magnitogorsk. The amount of harmful emissions in recent years has decreased by 4 times.
The social policy of OJSC MMK is based on the following principles and directions:
Creation of conditions for employees and members of their families to solve all issues of life, including the improvement of living conditions, treatment and medical care, health improvement and recreation, cultural services with celebrations, mass sports and physical culture, funeral services, providing the opportunity to purchase quality food and the entire range of consumer goods using cashless payments in trading network cities on "credit" plastic cards;
“targeted” social support for veterans, disabled people, families with many children and other low-income categories through the charitable public fund"Metallurg" and with the use of social facilities maintained at the expense of OJSC "MMK";
Provision of services by OJSC MMK's social facilities to residents of the city and nearby areas of the Chelyabinsk Region and the Republic of Bashkortostan;
Support and charitable assistance to public associations working with the disabled, children and various categories of low-income people, with other segments of the city's population;
Charitable assistance and sponsorship to various organizations of education, healthcare, culture, sports and other areas of public life in holding various cultural and sports festivals and memorials.
Social policy at OJSC MMK is implemented by the department social programs, the trade union committee, the Klyuch housing and investment fund, the Union of Young Metallurgists, the Council of Veterans, the Metallurg Fund and others public organizations and movement. Each organization has specific tasks and its field of activity. But, often carrying out different projects, associations work together, corporately. This clearly demonstrates the implementation of the youth program developed at OJSC MMK, which is carried out by the trade union committee, personnel department, public association"Union of Young Metallurgists", the Council of Young Specialists and the Council of Veterans of the plant. Financing of the program "Youth of OJSC MMK" is carried out by the trade union committee and the administration of the plant. And one more example - the department of social programs is one of the main management services of the plant, which prepares the text of the collective agreement for each year and, together with the trade union committee, develops normative documents for the implementation of the provisions of the collective agreement and control over its execution during the entire period of validity.
The Trade Union Committee sums up the results of fulfillment of the OJSC MMK's collective agreement. This document fixes the obligation of the administration of the enterprise to increase the average wage. MMK's management fulfills this obligation. If in January 2002 the average salary at OJSC MMK was 7,124 rubles, then in August it was 9,420 rubles. Wage growth is also noted at the plant's subsidiaries: from 6,640 rubles in January to 8,500 rubles in the middle of the year. At the same time, wage growth outpaces inflation, and real incomes of employees are 1.5 times higher than the average consumer budget. Wage paid on time and in full.
With the support of the trade union committee, a system of elected labor protection commissioners operates in the shops, who are regularly trained and certified. An annual review competition is held on labor safety and reduction of industrial injuries for the title of "The Best Occupational Safety Commissioner". All this leads to a reduction in industrial injuries. Since 1998, the number of injuries at the plant has almost halved.
Also priority directions in the work of the trade union committee are:
Social support for families with many children, families with disabled children, parents of soldiers who suffered in "hot spots";
Work with youth, carried out jointly with the Union of Young Metallurgists;
Improvement and recreation of metallurgists and members of their families;
Sports-mass, work;
Holding cultural events;
Support for horticultural associations.
A mutual benefit fund operates under the control of the trade union committee. Employees of the plant, its subsidiaries and institutions have the opportunity to receive repayable loans in it.
The MMK trade union organization was established on June 26, 1931. Then it numbered 5,000 people, and today it has more than 90,000 employees. The trade union committee of OJSC MMK is one of the largest trade union committees in the region.
The Department of Social Programs, which was established in 1993, coordinates the work of all services of the plant for the implementation of social programs within the framework of the social policy of OJSC MMK. It is entrusted with the functions of developing, developing and supporting social programs. Currently, it is headed by Alexander Masruev, who believes: “Magnitogorsk is famous not only for the colossal quantity and high quality of the produced metal, which, as you know, is the bread of the industry. It is no less important for today's Russia with its market changes as a model of a pronounced social orientation of the economy.
The tasks of the Department of Social Programs include:
Creation of conditions that allow mitigating, facilitating the adaptation of the workers of the plant, non-working pensioners to life in market conditions with insufficient social guarantees and support at the state level;
Gradual restructuring of the psychology of employees from recipients of benefits and allowances to earning money to meet their vital needs with the creation by the employer of conditions for choosing priorities through support measures that are socially significant for the workforce and individual worker directions of life;
Development and implementation of measures to work with the labor collective by its representatives in the person of the trade union organization on the principles of social partnership, the formation of a corporate ideology.
Since the mid-1990s, housing construction and the development of the city have practically ceased in Magnitogorsk due to a lack of funds from industrial enterprises, city administration and residents.
Anticipating the emergence of this situation, OJSC MMK created the Klyuch housing and investment fund. The reduction in the plant's ability to invest from profits in housing construction and the provision of free housing to workers forced them to look for affordable for workers and less burdensome for joint-stock company schemes for solving the housing problem. The Department of Social Programs was actively involved in the development of the housing program.
From 1996 to 2001, 215,718 square meters of housing were built, which made it possible to improve the living conditions of more than 2,500 families of workers of the plant and subsidiaries. During this period, the following scheme was applied: ZIF "Klyuch" accumulates funds from developers in the form of their cash and borrowed money, provided to them by the plant on an interest-free basis, and directs them to the construction of housing. The amount of borrowed funds and repayment terms (from 3 to 10 years) are determined depending on the degree of need of the employee to improve housing conditions and on the income level of the employee. Over this period, more than 280 million rubles were provided in loans to employees. For the plant and for workers in the transition period from free housing, such a scheme was optimal, but a major distraction working capital for the plant has become quite burdensome. Changes in legislation have led to a decrease in the profitability of using borrowed funds for preferential terms. Therefore, the search for new forms, sources and schemes for solving the housing problem continued. At present, a transition has been made to the use of bank credit resources under the guarantee of OJSC MMK. Employees purchase apartments under equity participation agreements in housing construction with payment by installments up to 9 years. In parallel, a program of mortgage lending to employees is being developed using MMK's short-term guarantee.
Currently, the development of a program to create a credit and consumer cooperative of citizens from among the workers of the plant is being completed in order to create financial resources by accumulating funds to improve housing conditions and, through this, providing targeted loans to members of the cooperative. As the cooperative develops, it is planned to create an association of such cooperatives, which will be able to build new houses and even housing complexes.
