OREANDA-NEWS. September 10, 2008. By recommendation of the Commonwealth of New Era Managers and the Peter the Great International Club of Managers, Andrey Petrovich Dobrov, the Director General of OAO Belon, and Stanislav Stanislavovich Zolotykh, the Manager of the Kostromovskaya Mine Construction Project, received social awards—the Order of Peter the Great, and the Peter the Great Medal for Labour Merit.

The decision to judge the awards was taken on the meeting of the Russian Public Committee for Judging Peter the Great Social Awards on May 29, 2008. The awards were presented to the top managers of Belon at the ceremony of formal opening of the Kostromovskaya mine on August 28, 2008.
 
Andrey P. Dobrov was awarded the Order of Peter the Great for outstanding personal contribution to the development of coal industry of Russia and Kuzbass.

Stanislav S. Zolotykh was awarded the Peter the Great Gold Medal for Labour Merit for exceptional personal contribution to the construction of the Kostromovskaya mine.