UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 2, 2016. Pipe Metallurgical Company’s TMK NGS-Buzuluk (Buzuluk, Orenburg Region) won a tender for engineering and technological support of run-in-hole operations for Gazprom Geologorazvedka, TMK press service reports. The company experts will be present during the RIH operations at two wells on the shelf of Sakhalin Island in the Sea of Okhotsk. TMK’s casing pipes with TMK UP CWB and TMK UP PF threaded joints will be used for the RIH operations there. The engineering supervisors are in charge of giving professional advice to the customer’s staff members, overseeing

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 2, 2016. The All-Russian NOSTROY Conference for the members of the National Builders’ Union is scheduled for the second half of March; this time, there are eight points on the agenda for the directors of self-regulatory organizations to work on, including election of NOSTROY President and membership fee-related decisions. So far, only one well-known businessperson on the Forbes Russia list, head of LSR Group (one of the largest developers in Moscow Region and Saint Petersburg) Andrei Molchanov decided to run for the union’s president. There is little time left

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 2, 2016. The canteen at Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant reopened after an overhaul and remodeling, the company press service says. The reconstruction involved all of the food-making departments (the hot- and cold-meal shops, the meat shop, and the vegetable and pastry ones) as well as the storage rooms and washrooms. The food court was also renovated. All the sinks and cookers were replaced, new, modern equipment was installed, and a new service counter was added. The food court now has panoramic windows and fits as many as eighty people at a time. The

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 2, 2016. SKB-Bank came eighth in the rating of Russia’s best banks in 2015 created by Sravni.ru, the bank’s press service reports. ‘The web portal’s analysts wanted to come up with something like an Oscar Award for the Russian banks. Their rating of the best home banks as of last year was an attempt to do so,’ the press service says. The rating is based on data from the banks’ annual reports available on the Central Bank’s website. Positive changes in the banks’ performance indicators such as net asset volume and that of their loan books, the amount of money

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 2, 2016. The telecommunications provider MegaFon now provides its data storage and backup services to UMMC Telecom, the operator’s press service reports. UMMC decided to rent 3,000 gigabytes of MegaFon’s virtual servers. According to MegaFon representatives, the rental cloud allows for great savings on infrastructure maintenance, with no need for the clients to buy their own equipment. Renting cloud space proves much more economically expedient. ‘What we offer our partners is more than communications services, we offer a set of services integrated into business