Karaganda. March 18. Kazakhstan Today - Akim of Karaganda oblast Nurlan Nigmatulin and the chairman of the board of Corporation Kazahmys Edward Ogay signed the memorandum of mutual cooperation on Monday, the agency reports. "Corporation Kazahmys is one of the largest socially focused enterprises of our country. Its management pays much attention to social well-being of the employees of the enterprise and development of the regions where all its divisions are located," N. Nigmatulin informed. "This memorandum will be of great importance for our region and will allow solving important problems concerning various spheres of the society." "The corporation will continue financing hockey club Sary-Arka and football club Shahter as well as education of 10 best graduates of schools and colleges of the oblast in the leading foreign high schools. The corporation will purchase automobile ambulances, the laboratory equipment for sanitary-and-epidemiologic service," N. Nigmatulin explained. The memorandum stipulates that the enterprise will bring contribution to social development of such cities, as Karaganda, Balkhash, Zhezkazgan, Satpayev, Aktogay and Buhar-Zhyrau regions of the oblast. 1.8 billion KZT will be allocated for these purposes.