Ural Airlines offers every visitor to InnoProm 2010 (the Ural International Industry & Innovations Fair) an opportunity to book and buy an airplane ticket for any of the carrier’s scheduled flights as well as to check in right at the company’s stand in Chkalovskiy terminal. The self-service check-in kiosks operate in real time mode; in addition, a test trial is available at the same time, so all the ‘passengers’ can ‘check in’ for a virtual flight. What is more, the airline’s stand provides all the information about the company its customers might be interested in. InnoProm 2010 will be

A fire broke out in Denezhkin Kamen nature reserve, Ural Federal District’s division of Rosprirodnadzor reports. ‘Denezhkin Kamen informed our department of the fire in Quarter 202 at 4: 00 PM on July 15, 2010. According to the preliminary data available, the fire covered the area of some 1.5 hectares. It is, in fact, about three kilometers from the fire area to the nearest body of water. Six nature reserve workers and two automobiles were sent in to fight the fire,’ Rosprirodnadzor (the state environmental watchdog) says. The causes of the emergency are now being investigated; experts are

The Times of India announced recently that the Indian authorities adopted the symbol for the rupee, the national currency, on July 15, 2010. ‘This currency symbol looks somewhat like an R without the vertical line and somewhat like र (ra), the letter of the Devanagari alphabet,’ the newspaper says. The rupee symbol will probably come in use in India within six months’ time and is expected to hit the global market in eighteen to twenty-four months. OOO Koltso Urala Commercial Bank’s Currency Transactions Director Igor Nesterovitch says the graphic currency symbols don’t really have an economic

Deputy Minister for Regional Development Yuri Osintsev visited Academic, Yekaterinburg’s newest district currently still under construction. The official came to the area to see the opening of the Energy Efficiency Center that is created for the exchange of energy-saving experience with the construction companies. Yuri Osintsev spoke very favorably of the local developer’s energy-saving achievements and suggested that they should be introduced in the existing homes as well. ‘We’ll direct some extra money to the housing overhauls in Nizhniy Tagil, Asbest, and Pervouralsk to make sure these