OREANDA-NEWS. On July 04, 2008 The chairman of the Accounting Chamber of the Russian Federation, Sergey Stepashin highly estimated the cooperation of the municipal authorities of the city of Gubkin, its main employer and taxpayer – Lebedinsky GOK and Metalloinvest Holding, reported the press-centre of Metalloinvest.

Russia’s main auditor visited Lebedinsky GOK with a delegation of Russia’s Accounting Chamber in the frames of the VII conference of municipal audit bodies held on July, 2 in Belgorod.

Mr. Stepashin visited the observation platform of Lebedinsky GOK’s open pit and the city of Gubkin. He has noted the high level of the city’s infrastructure development and has underlined a crucial role played by public-private partnership programs. He expressed certainty that Lebedinsky GOK, Metalloinvest and municipal authorities of the city of Gubkin are equally interested in delivering high class social conditions to the citizens of the region.

"This can be considered as a model of the corporate social responsibility, which proves that the owners of  Lebedinsky GOK have a strategic vision of the enterprise’s sustainable development",  concluded Mr. Stepashin. He promised to report the conclusions of the visit to Russia’s federal government.