Only very few business owners actually enjoy recalling the way their companies were set up. However, when they do go through with it, some quite fascinating things are revealed. President of Penetron Group Igor Chernogolov, someone whose bodacious bearing grew proverbial among the business elite in the Urals, made quite a speech to the public recently. Chernogolov developed his waterproofing construction mix business in every way one could think of; he never resorted to understatements while extolling the virtues and competitive advantages of his product and sometimes descended to overtly

June 27, 2014. Throughout the month of July, members of the airline’s Wings Club will be granted 250 extra bonus rubles per every flight segment to their member account when flying on business to Moscow and bank, Ural Airlines’ press service reports. These extra bonuses for business trip can help the cardholders save on their holiday travel. Ural Airlines operate Chelyabinsk-Moscow and Moscow-Chelyabinsk flight every day; these are operated on the comfortable Airbus A320 liners that have both the economy and the business class sections. You can join the Wings Club by applying via the

June 27, 2014. The time it takes to get a building connected to Sverdlovsk Region electric grids dropped by 1.5 months compared with the previous years, Governor of Sverdlovsk Region’s Information Policies Department reports. According to Sverdlovsk Region’s Deputy Minister for Energy & Communal Housing Services Igor Chikrizov, the adoption of a local bill on cases that do not require a construction permit increased the availability of the power infrastructure in comparable ways. The new rules made it unnecessary to get construction permits for small but very locally popular structures

June 27, 2014. Semi-Precious Ring of the Urals, a project for the development of an automobile tourist cluster, was selected to join the national special-purpose program on the development of external and internal tourism in 2015-2018. Within the framework of this program, the project will get 1.1bn RUR for infrastructure development, Governor of Sverdlovsk Region’s Information Policies Department reports. Semi-Precious Ring of the Urals is the longest tourist route in the Urals that comprises nearly all the landmarks to be found in Sverdlovsk Region. The route is 650 km long and can actually

June 27, 2014. Experts from Bank Koltso Urala report that the number of currency exchange transactions their customers perform using their bank cards increases in the summer months as usual. Customers started using their cards more often to pay for their purchases in foreign boutiques, outlets, and restaurants as early as May, and by the end of June, the volume of such transactions doubled, the bank’s press service reports. According to Bank Koltso Urala’s Commission-Based Card Services Management Director Irina Buribayeva, the variation in the number of currency exchange transactions last

June 27, 2014. Students of Ural State Mining University who came to study in Yekaterinburg from Guinea are planning to attend the night-time live broadcast of the Russia-Algeria football match in the fan zone of V.V. Mayakovsky Central Park, the university’s information department reports. There are currently 22 Guinean citizens in Mining University at the moment. It is also possible that international students from other Yekaterinburg colleges will attend the event as well. Even though the Russia-Algeria game will only start at 2AM local time, supporters, including foreigners, will have no