UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 23, 2016. Prices dropped by 9.2% on Yekaterinburg existing home market compared with February 2015, Ural Real Estate Chamber reports. As of March 21, 2106, the average price of a square meter came to 69,633 RUR, and the customers currently have plenty of options to choose from. Even though the market supply declined somewhat in January and February, it is still 28.6% larger than one year earlier: there are 10,360 apartments and 1,850 rooms in communal apartments for sale in the Chamber’s database (compared with 8,000 apartments and 1,200 rooms in February 2015). The

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 23, 2016. Sverdlovsk Region residents’ accumulated income amounted to 1,809.5 trillion RUR last year (up 8.4% on a year earlier), while their spending was estimated at 1.867.6 trillion RUR (up 11.4% on a year earlier), Sverdlovskstat reports. Their paying capacity (calculated against the minimum shopping basket) dropped by 7.3%. For example, Sverdlovsk Region resident’s average monthly pay could get you 121.7 kg of beef in 2014 against 109.4 kg in 2015, or 650.3 against 641.6 liters of milk, or 6,414 against 6,103 eggs, or 857.7 against 650.1 kg of sugar,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 23, 2016. Ural Airlines are now offering new flight-planning options for online customers, the air carrier’s press service reports. For example, when booking online you can select and pay for any seat of your choice and get a boarding pass printout immediately. If you do not have access to the web at a given moment, you can also check in by contacting the company call center (the 300 RUR that this service costs get paid by credit card). You can buy an insurance policy for your flight alongside with your ticket online or through the call center (8-800-7700-262) and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 23, 2016. Omsktransmash (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) manufactured and delivered to customer its first two special fire trucks that are expected to be produced on a serial scale in the future. According to the company press service, the trucks withstood all the tests and trials and were approved all around. Under the terms of the contract, the customer is to receive the vehicles at the end of March. The special-purpose fire truck was designed at Omsktransmash in 2012 and presented at Russia Arms Expo in Nizhniy Tagil in September 2013. The

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 23, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s company television recently aired the 100th broadcast of its UVZ Segodnya, newly themed for the purpose, the company press service reports. The program was first broadcast on March 28, 2014 and still retains its general concept today. The idea is to inform the teams of the corporation’s member enterprises located in different parts of Russia about the company news and the Russian machine-building and defense industry trends which influence the company’s current performance and its future prospects. UVZ company television is