CHEREPOVETS, Russia — Burly steel workers in this gritty industrial town have their choice of free services at the company spa in a leafy park down the road from the factory.

Thirty masseuses are on hand to treat aching backs and sore muscles. The spa menu at Rudnik, or the Spring, also includes hot mineral baths, mud wraps, acupuncture and a sauna — all served with organic, stress-reducing teas made with local honey.

Life is good for workers at the steel company, Severstal.

Along with the spa perks, Severstal covers the cost of vacations to Sochi on the Black Sea. A company dental office offers two free fillings annually. Workers also got 8 percent pay raises this year, along with bonuses.

“A crisis has supposedly occurred,” Andrei G. Meledin, who works on a production line, said. “But we don’t feel it here.”