UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 26, 2019. EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Plant (EVRAZ NTMK) automobile department completed its stage of the company’s charity relay race by supporting Kolosok Kindergarten in Novopanshino; the adjustage department is now taking over, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Communications Center reports.

It took NTMK workers six months to complete their project at the kindergarten in Novopanshino: they removed the fire-prone flooring on the ground floor of the building, installed six new exit doors, and put up three new gazebos and two sandboxes.

The kindergarten is located within 85 km of Nizhniy Tagil, so getting there was no easy matter. However, every single employee responded to the call for help. We did all the jobs outside of working hours and built everything ourselves. I am truly grateful to my team, says head of the automobile department at NTMK Dmitri Matyushev.

The department workers came to help nearly every weekend and worked hard on very sophisticated tasks. Thanks a lot, says the kindergarten’s director Nadezhda Shalamova.

The charity relay race is something NTMK’s blast furnace department employees proposed two years ago. Ten of the plant’s departments joined in, helping Kindergarten 105 for special-needs children, Raduga Minors’ Rehabilitation Center, two orphanages, School 1 for special needs-children, Ulybka Rehabilitation Center, and kindergartens in Kaygorodskoye, Bashkarka, Pervomaysky, Novoasbest, and Novopanshino.

Head of the automobile department at NTMK Dmitri Matyushev handed the symbolic relay baton over to head of the adjustage department Dmitri Betsgold at the Managing Director’s office meeting.