UrBC, Magnitogorsk, November 16, 2018. Chair of Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Board of Directors Viktor Rashnikov was awarded the Order of Alexander Nevsky by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decree dated November 13, 2018, MMK’s Information & PR Department reports.

The order was given ‘for work achievements and many years of conscientious performance,’ the Kremlin’s website states.

A native of Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Region, Viktor Rashnikov turned seventy on October 13, 2018. He has been working at MMK for over half a century now, as he first came to the plant in 1967.

Viktor Rashinkov, Eng.Sc.D., is on the Supervisory Board of the Russian Union of Industrialists & Entrepreneurs (and head of the union’s Chelyabinsk Region division), an honorary citizen of both Chelyabinsk Region and Magnitogorsk, Chair of Metallurg Charity Fund’s Board of Trustees, and President of Metallurg Hockey Club.