April 16, 2015. Ural Airlines launches additional Yekaterinburg-Baku and Yekaterinburg-Yerevan flights. Yekaterinburg-Baku flights are now operated on Saturdays as well as Thursdays, Yekaterinburg-Yerevan ones are operated on Thursdays and Sundays. Besides, the airline’s customers can also fly to Georgia: a direct flight from Yekaterinburg to Tbilisi is available every Monday. Tickets are already on offer. Additionally, a new scheduled flight from Yekaterinburg to Chisinau will be launched on May 15, 2015. The flight will be operated every Tuesday. ‘A convenient timetable will allow

April 16, 2015. Supply on Yekaterinburg existing homes market keeps rising: the number of apartments added to Ural Chamber of Real Estate’s database has been growing by 3% a week for the last one and a half months, the Chamber’s Analytical Department states. The number of apartments available for purchase went up to 9,850 (+26%) since February; that of rooms in communal apartments went up to 1,440 (+20%). ‘In contrast to sellers, buyers haven’t been very active so far this year. The demand dropped noticeably after the end-of-year frenzy. This couldn’t help affecting the prices, which have

April 16, 2015. Lepse (a member enterprise of Uralvagonzavod Corporation) reopened its reconstructed foundry facility. Repairs took about three months, the corporation’s press service reports. An overhaul was given to all the pressing, polishing, etching, and galvanizing facilities as well as to all the storage facilities for poisonous chemicals, fittings, and precious metals. Besides, a polishing unit was bought to increase the precision and improve the quality of silver-coating operations. The modern unit traps all the silver dust particles and thus allows for zero loss of the precious

April 16, 2015. MMK and ChTPZ Group’s Coordination Council started working at Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK). The council meeting was attended by ChTPZ Deputy Director-General for Strategic Cooperation Alexander Golodyagin, ChTPZ Head of Purchases Alexander Kolchin, MMK Deputy Director-General for Sales Nicolai Lyadov, and representatives of ChTPZ and MMK commercial, production, and technical divisions. According to ChTPZ press service, MMK and Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant/ChTPZ are working together on their strategic cooperation program targeted at providing Russian oil and gas

April 16, 2015. ChTPZ Engineering (a member enterprise of ChTPZ Group) presented its innovative pipe products at the 9th O&G OILTECH Conference in Atyrau, Kazakhstan, on April 14-15. The Group made a presentation on its casing and compression pipes with Premium threaded joints, heavy-duty OCTGs meant for transportation of fluids with corrosive ingredients, corrosion-resistant casing and compression pipes meant for environments with increased sulfur and carbon dioxide content, and cold-resistant casing and compression pipes suitable for extremely low temperatures (-60 degrees centigrade).