The Profile magazine carried a rating of the largest banks in terms of net asset volume. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction and Development was given the 46th position on the list: its assets amounted to 93.13bn RUR on November 1, 2011. Last year, the bank scored the 47th position in the rating. As a matter of fact, the UBRD was also given good ratings among Russia’s most profitable banks at the end of November. According to RBC.Rating, the Ural Bank for Reconstruction and Development was the country’s 28th largest bank in terms of profit volume (this reached 1.8bn RUR on October 1, 2011, which

A large sum of a customer’s money went missing from Ural, Alfa-Bank’s Yekaterinburg office, the victim himself informed UrBC. ‘I decided to place 25,000 RUR into my Alfa-Bank card account on December 23. I used the cash-in ATM located in their Ural office right in the center of the city. Unfortunately, the money was not transferred into my account; nor did the ATM give me my money back,’ the bank’s customer told UrBC. According to the customer, the office clerks did admit that the trouble had most likely been caused by an ATM glitch and suggested that he should submit an official complaint.

The firefighters are now pouring water onto the scene of the fire at Tagansky Ryad market place and dismantling the burned-down structures there. Six firefighting vehicles and twenty-four people are involved in the proceedings. The causes of the fire are being investigated by the firefighting experts and inquest authorities, Sverdlovsk Region division of Russia’s Ministry of Emergencies reports. The fire at a warehouse at 1 Minometchikov St. was reported at 2:24 PM on December 25, 2011. Plenty of combustible material at the warehouse and a strong wind caused the fire to spread quickly. The

Ural Airlines’ fleet of vehicles now numbers as many as twenty-two Airbus planes. The company’s ninth Airbus A321 arrived at Koltsovo Airport of Yekaterinburg yesterday. This was yet another stage in the airline’s fleet upgrade program. The new plane was bought on operational lease terms in Dublin, Ireland. Like the previous A321 planes, this one has 220 economy class seats. The air carrier intends to use it mostly for chartered flights. Ural Airlines also intends to upgrade its fleet of vehicles further by buying four more airplanes in 2012 and to operate thirty Airbus planes by 2015. The

929 flights will be operated from Yekaterinburg’s Koltsovo Airport during the holiday season, between December 25, 2011 and January 15, 2012. This includes 635 domestic flights, 294 international flights, 903 scheduled flights, and 27 chartered flights. The greatest portion of the international flights will be operated to Egypt (26 flights to Hurghada and 20 flights to Sharm El Sheikh), the Czech Republic (32 flights to Prague and 6 flights to Carlsbad), the United Arab Emirates (22 flights to Dubai and 8 flights to Sharjah), Thailand (21 flights to Bangkok and 5 flights to Phuket), and China