August 5, 2014. The Central Bank of Russia’s Ural division will start operating in Yekaterinburg on September 17, the new division’s head Irina Petrova said during her meeting with Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Evgeniy Kuivashev.

The Governor’s Information Policies Department reports the division will comprise respective departments of Tyumen Region, Chelyabinsk Region, Orenburg Region, Sverdlovsk Region, Perm Territory, and the Republic of Bashkortostan.

‘We are now shaping our team and taking on people,’ Irina Petrova said.

Ms Petrova actually used to work as the head of the Central Bank’s Kaliningrad Region department and Leningrad Region department. She was appointed head of the Central Bank of Russia’s Ural division in Yekaterinburg by order of the Chairman of the Bank of Russia on June 30, 2014.