Governor of Chelyabinsk Region Petr Sumin met Chairman of Russian Copper Company Igor Altushkin to discuss the company’s investment projects in Chelyabinsk Region. Russian Copper Company has already managed to fully restore a number of industrial sites and put up some ore mining enterprises in the region. Mr. Altushkin spoke on the company’s prospective development in 2007-2010; the plan presupposes further expansion of business through setting up new enterprises, renovating and upgrading the existing ones, and introducing advanced industrial technologies.

‘Russian Copper Company will have created about 3,000 jobs in Chelyabinsk Region by 2010,’ Mr. Altushkin said.