OREANDA-NEWS. On July 07, 2008 Foundation "Generation", founded by the Russian State Duma Deputy Andrey Skoch has performed a charitable mission, which consisted in handing personal vehicles to the veterans of the World War II, reported the press-centre of Metalloinvest.

The presentation of 200 VAZ vehicles to the veterans was held on July, 7 - the date of the 65th anniversary of the battle that took place during the WWII at the Prokhorov field.

The head of the Foundation, Andrey Skoch has personally handed over the keys of the vehicles to the veterans. Performing this mission, the Foundation has accomplished a large scale social program which consisted in presenting more than 2,000 vehicles to the veterans of Belgorod region.

Alexander Kirilin, Head of the department of the Russian Federation Ministry of Defence, responsible for the perpetuation of the memory of the perished combatants,  awarded Andrey Skoch with an honorary medal.

Oleg Poluhin, Head of the administration of Belgorod region; Oleg Lebedev, Chairman of the "Generation" Foundation’s tutorial council as well as Ms. Maria Derkach, Chairman of the council of the Veterans of Belgorod region were present at the ceremony.

The first stage of the charity mission took part in February 2008, thus creating a model of public-private partnership in the Belgorod region. The example was followed by the city of St Petersburg as well as by Kursk region, where the program was  accomplished owing to the partnership with  Metalloinvest Holding.

Andrey Skoch’s investment foundation jointly with Alisher Usmanov and Vasiliy Anisimov are shareholders of  Metalloinvest Holding.