Nornickel invests in social infrastructure and human capital, prioritising continuous improvements to quality of life for employees and their families as a core pillar of its strategy.
The Company is committed to ensuring the well-being of its people by offering them healthcare and health resort treatment programmes, as well as by improving living conditions and the social environment. Under the Corporate Healthcare project, both private healthcare services and the public healthcare system are developed in the Company’s key regions of operation: the Norilsk Region and the Kola Peninsula. The RUB 10 billion project, spanning until 2025, aims at providing quality and affordable medical care to Nornickel employees and their families. The project includes refurbishment of existing corporate medical aid posts and medical checkup facilities, additionally six new healthcare centres will be built in the cities hosting the Company’s operations. As at the end of 2023, three healthcare centres, more than 30 medical aid posts, examination rooms, and workshop medical sections were commissioned to provide healthcare services to employees directly at work and prevent diseases.
With the Company’s focus on improving the living standards in Norilsk and the wider region, this is one of the most important tools to attract and retain skilled talent. In 2021, a four-party agreement was signed with federal and regional authorities to renovate housing and social infrastructure in Norilsk up to 2035, with Nornickel to contribute RUB 81 billion to the total budget of RUB 120 billion. Under the initiative, a master plan for developing Norilsk was greenlit, a social and economic development programme for the city up to 2035 was developed, and a major housing renovation programme was rolled out. The programme also includes the construction and overhaul of social infrastructure (polyclinics, kindergartens, sports centres, the Arctic Museum of Modern Art, tourist attractions and infrastructure, etc.), landscaping (greening the city, landscaping areas adjacent to city parks and recreation camps), the upgrade of local utilities, and the overhaul of local transport infrastructure.
Nornickel runs the World of New Opportunities charity programme to provide sustainable development capabilities and opportunities to communities across its regions of operation. The programme aims at developing social skills in local communities, demonstrating and introducing new social technologies, supporting and encouraging community initiatives, and creating a favourable environment for cross-sector partnerships.
Nornickel’s corporate volunteering programme comprises a vast array of volunteer and charitable projects across all of Nornickel’s regions of operation: the Norilsk industrial District, the Kola Peninsula, Chita, and Moscow. The programme supports employee volunteers’ own social initiatives, aimed at contributing to the social development of our operating regions and a better quality of life for local communities. Since its inception in December 2015, the programme has expanded significantly. Over the eight years, it has expanded its outreach to more than 4,000 people from several hundred participants; the number of annual events has grown sevenfold, from 60 events in 2016 to 410 in 2023.