A veterans’ meeting devoted to the upcoming Senior Citizen’s Day was held on the premises of Zinc Plant of Chelyabinsk on September 28, 2006. The Assembly Hall hosted some 300 retired people (who had been employed by the plant), and General Director Vsevolod Geihmann addressed the audience with a speech, covering the current state of events at the plant and sharing the company’s development plans.

‘The plant has always been proud of its pensioners, and it was largely due to them that the company managed to reach the production and economic levels it did. We have been supporting and will try to keep helping our veterans if the business goes well. We should all understand that this kind of help is the sign of the management’s good will, and the company is not made through any legal mechanisms to support its pensioners; we simply want to express our gratitude to and show responsibility for the older generation,’ Mr Geihmann said.

According to the Trade Union Director Sergey Buryakovskiy, all of the company’s 652 veterans received valuable gifts on Senior Citizen’s Day’s eve.

The Chair of Veterans’ Social Welfare committee Lydia Menshikova updated the veterans on how the committee operated in 2005. ‘We are planning to spend a few million RUR in 2006 on regular remunerations (once every three months), buying medicines, trips to health resorts, subscribing to magazines and journals, paying for the funerals and other things. The management of the company and the shareholders almost fully rely on us, the pensioners working within the committee, to distribute the money, since we come into daily contact with our veterans and now them all by their names and are aware of their needs,’ Ms Menshikova said.