February 5, 2015. 3,000 tickets have been sold for the Russian Classic 2014-2015 Supreme Hockey League game in Nizhniy Tagil; the event will take place at Uralvagonzavod Corporation’s stadium on February 14; the stadium is big enough for 7,000 spectators, the corporation’s press service reports. ‘Sputnik Hockey Club representatives stress the game arouses a lot of interest: tickets get booked not only by residents of Nizhniy Tagil but also by people from other parts of Sverdlovsk Region. Moreover, a number of seats have already been reserved for Orsk supporters, who will come to see their

February 5, 2015. Central Yekaterinburg division of Rospotrebnadzor (the state consumer rights watchdog) detected food safety problems at two of Yekaterinburg Subway fast food outlets, the agency’s press service reports. It was determined in the course of an inspection that both cafes had been selling foods that did not meet the microbiological safety regulations. E.coli was found in the salmon sandwich on offer at the Subway at 8D Vosmoye Marta St and in the beef sandwich and the vegetable salad on offer at the one at 22 Repin St; the bacterium content was determined through lab tests. As

February 5, 2015. Yekaterinburg Chkalovsky Court officers collected over 2m RUR from Uralkhimmash, a chemical plant, to the benefit of the enterprise’s contractors, Sverdlovsk Region division of the Federal Service of Court Officers’ press service reports. ‘Two enforcement proceedings on the collection of debt from Uralkhimmash to the benefit of Technoservice and Sibirenergoengineering have been completed. The plant owed 711,170 RUR to the former (having failed to pay the royalties on suction filter sales, and 1.5m RUR to the latter (having failed to deliver the goods within the contract

February 5, 2015. Eleven promising industrial sites were placed on the industrial parks register, Governor of Sverdlovsk Region’s Information Policy Department reports. The register now comprises four Sverdlovsk Region-based banks: Tagil Chemical Park, Sinara Park, Berezovsky Park, and Pro Business Park. The parks’ management teams are working hard to attract new residents. Tagil Chemical Park and Pro Business Park are members of the Industrial Parks Association. Cooperation agreements were signed by the Mid-Urals Development Corporation and the management companies of Tagil Chemical Park,

February 5, 2015. Supply keeps going down by over 1% a week on Yekaterinburg existing homes market, Ural Chamber of Real Estate reports. The number of homes available for sale in the Chamber’s database dropped by 22.5% and comes to 7,800 at the moment (compared with nearly 10,100 in late October). The number of rooms in communal apartments plummeted by as many as 32% (from 1,800 down to 1,220). Prices kept fluctuating noticeably throughout January: the city’s average price rose by 0.6% in the last four weeks. As of February 2, the average asking price on Yekaterinburg existing homes market