January 14, 2015. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Mill 2000 has made 5,000,000,000 kg of goods since the moment it was launched, MMK reports. Mill 2000 is located at the company’s Sheet-Rolling Department 11 and is primarily meant for making good quality cold-rolled and zinc-coated rolled sheets for internal and external parts of automobiles, for household appliances, and for building structures. The facility comprises a continuous etching and chlorohydric acid pickling line, a five-stand cold mill with the capacity of 2,100,000,000 kg a year, a continuous hot-dip galvanizing unit

January 14, 2015. The Park Inn by Radisson Ekaterinburg Hotel now has a new manager, Andreea Cheratoiu from Rumania, the hotel’s Marketing & PR Department reports. The new manager’s task will be to find a new niche at the time of an economic crisis and under ever-fiercer competition among the arriving international hotel chains on Yekaterinburg market. Throughout 2012, 2013, and until November 2014 Andreea Cheratoiu was Director of Operations at Radisson Blu Hotel Bucharest.

January 14, 2015. Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (ChTZ Uraltrac, a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) shipped a set of bulldozers to Krasnodar Territory, the corporation’s press service reports. ‘A major road maintenance company added a B14 to its fleet of vehicles. The customer received the bulldozer shortly after the deal was signed, and put it to work at once. Other customers in the area are already using three B10M bulldozers: one of the vehicles was bought by Kuban Steamship Company for sand production, another one is now used at a brick plant, and yet another one was shipped to

January 14, 2015. Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ, a member enterprise of ChTPZ Group) was declared Appealing Employer 2014 by SuperJob.ru, a recruitment web service. The plant was nominated based on the results of an annual research focused on businesses’ recruitment activity, pay rates, and the candidates’ interest in the job, the enterprise’s press service reports. ‘People are the main driving force behind the quest for perfection: this is how the Group’s White Metallurgy principle goes, which is why we make efforts to retain staff, pay their wages with no delays, and offer them benefits

January 14, 2015. Ural Airlines makes buying bonuses easier for its Wings Club members: they can now purchase the extra bonuses using their online membership account and their bank card, the airline’s press service says. The option will be particularly useful for the Wings Club members who are trying to get a free flight using their bonus miles: in case they fall short of a certain number of miles, they can opt for a 1,000-, 3,000-, or 5,000-bonus package and add these to their total bonus mileage. 1 bonus comes at a price of 1 ruble. These bonuses used to be only available for purchase at

January 14, 2015. Head of Yekaterinburg Council Architecture, Urban Planning, & Land Use Department Alexei Belyshev appointed Timur Abdullayev the city’s chief architect, the city council’s press service reports. Timur N. Abdullayev was born in Yekaterinburg on July 20, 1978. He graduated from Ural State Architecture & Arts Academy with a degree in Architecture and did some postgraduate studies as well. Abdullayev embarked on his career as a designer and an architect in October 1998. Prior to this new appointment, he was employed with In.Form Architectural Group.