One of the key priorities of Kursk NPP is the social security of its employees: so they earn enough for living well and feeling secure.

The plant’s Orbita sanatorium and Energetik sports complex offers excellent recreation and rehabilitation opportunities to the plant’s employees and their families.

Orbita sanatorium is located in a picturesque area – in the pine woods on the bank of Seim River 15 km from Kurchatov. It is a rehabilitation complex with health care facilities, canteen, cinema, library, gymnasium, fitness center, juice and billiards bars, solarium. The sanatorium was opened in 1987 and has all necessary equipment for full rehabilitation. Today it is one of the best sanatoriums of Kursk region and the Russian NPPs.

On June 1 1995 Orbita merged with children’s recreation camp Timur into an Orbita sanatorium-preventorium.

393 employees enjoyed rehabilitation in federal sanatoriums in 2005.

Each year Kursk NPP makes contracts with sanatoriums of Mineralnye Vodi, Lipetsk and the Black Sea.

Former employees, pensioners and children of employees are provided with voluntary health insurance by Atommed OJSC under programs of free or partly paid treatment in hospitals of Kursk, Moscow, St.Petersburg and federal sanatoriums. 465 employees received insurance compensation in 2005.

ESKO company ensures the plant’s employees against industrial and home accidents.

The social policy of the plant is based on the annual and long-term plans of “Rosenergoatom” Concern, which are common for all the concern’s NPPs.

But there are also a number of peculiar benefits. In case of treatment Insured employees are sent on holiday with their wages paid for the whole period of treatment.

Employees on maternity leave get monthly benefit equivalent to1.5-time minimum salary. For each birth an employee gets 8,000 RUR.

Pregnant employees enjoy reduced work day and benefit equivalent to average monthly salary. Temporarily unemployed get a dole equivalent to average salary.

Kursk NPP supports “Rosenergoatom” Concern’s policy of material support of veterans of the nuclear power industry and pays them one-time benefit worth 15,000-100,000 RUR depending on the length of service and the amount of salary. Veterans also receive 4,000 RUR non-government pension from the Energoatomgarant pension fund.

Kursk NPP helps not only veterans. For over 20 years already the plant has been actively supported pensioners, disabled people, big families, orphans.

Special attention is given to the veterans of the WWII, widows, people who survived the Leningrad blockade. On the Victory Day the plant provides them with material assistance, food, presents.

Youth is one more priority of Kursk NPP.

Orphans whose one parent died while being employee of the plant get 600 RUR each quarter till 18, orphans with both parents dead get twice as much. Orphan-students get special scholarship: from 450 RUR to 1,500 RUR a month depending on the marks they get.

One of the key directions of the plant’s youth policy is cultural and physical development, worth work conditions, social guarantees and active recruitment. The plant has opened a physics and engineering schools at Obninks State University of Nuclear Power Engineering with a view to stimulate the youth’s interest in the sector and to train worthy substitution to the existing personnel.

In 2003 Kursk NPP set up a fund of corporate crediting with a view to improve the housing conditions of the plant’s employees. This is part of the general program carried out by “Rosenergoatom” Concern.

The repayment for a house is 30% of the cost. Mortgage credits are issued for 15 years and are repaid in monthly installments. Each buyer should pay 7% administrative fee. In May 2005 the fund provided 51 flats in a new apartment house. In late Sept 2005 it unveiled one more apartment house with 120 flats.

The plant’s charitable activities are aimed at helping orphans and socially disadvantaged people.

Each year, on the eve of the New Year and on the International Children’s Day, a delegation of Kursk NPP visits the orphanage and the boarding school in the village of Tetkino and provides the children with clothes, food, toys and other presents.

The plant also helps WWII veterans and Chernobyl liquidators.