A City-Forming Enterprise as a Subject of Sustainable Social and Economic Development: The Magnitogorsk Metallurgical Complex

Abstract

The article concentrates on the consideration of the activity of the city-forming enterprise on the formation of conditions for the sustainable social and economic development of the mono industrial city, and also the definition of its most actual problems. The methodological basis of the research is based on the scientific statements of such scientists as O. Dinius, O. P. Ivanova, I. N. Ilyina, L. Karlson, I. D. Turgel, T. V. Uskova, K. Ehsani, etc. The results of a sociological study conducted in 2015–2019 in the city of Magnitogorsk (Chelyabinsk region), on the one hand, testifying to the significant measures of social support to the city-forming enterprise of its employees, and, on the other hand, the need, first of all, to invest in the socio-economic development of the city, to increase its attractiveness. The results of the survey correlate with the Report of the city's forward-looking enterprise in 2018—“Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works” PJSC, data from Chelyabinskstat, which allows the authors to make more accurate and balanced conclusions about the real situation in regards to this issue. The results of the study allowed to determine the critical positions that require special attention of the main subjects of urban management: self-government bodies, owners, administration of the city-forming enterprise, the urban community. These are the existence of double standards for the population of the city depending on the membership in the city-forming enterprise, the reduction of life expectancy of citizens, the dependence of all spheres of life of the city on the decisions of owners, representatives of the administrative body of the city-forming enterprise.