UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 12, 2016. The price of a country summerhouse with a patch of land around it came to 1.101m RUR on average in Sverdlovsk Region in late April, which was 6% less than one year earlier and 20% less than in early 2015, N1.ru’s research findings indicate. Prices went down for nearly all key locations, but the drop was most noticeable in places near Revda (-25%) and Pervouralsk (-22%), while the most expensive dachas can be found around Sysert, where a dacha with a land allotment comes for 1,537,500 RUR. Prices first started going down in February 2015, with no traditional

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 12, 2016. The number of newly issued international travel passports decreased by 59.2% in the four months of 2016 compared with one year earlier, Sverdlovsk Region division of Russia’s Federal Migration Service informed UrBC. The Service provided Russian citizens with 43,735 passports in January-April 2015 and with 17,841 passports in the four months of 2016. ‘The demand dropped by 60% against last year, which has to do with the current state of the Russian economy and the international status quo,’ the Service explains.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 12, 2016. The Invincible Ones: World’s Best Soldiers and Chelyabinsk Region’s Natives premiered in Chelyabinsk on May 9. The film was created by the Ural1 Internet channel and Russian Copper Company and is dedicated to sixteen war heroes who made their priceless contribution to the Great Victory, the company press service reports. The movie is reported to be one of the most unusual and truthful war films created in recent years. Sixteen toy soldiers whose faces resemble the actual combatants were cast in the Urals specially for the purpose. Among these war heroes are

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 12, 2016. Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works/NTMK (a member enterprise of EVRAZ Holding) produced over 850,000 kg of double T-rails for RN-Snabzheniye, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s PR Center reports. The T-rails will be used in the survey operations and development of oil and gas deposits in Yamalo-Nenetsky Autonomous District, as well as for capital repairs; these will be supplied there throughout the year 2016. NTMK’s double T-rail is meant to relieve and redistribute the structure load, which is why it is a popular component of complicated industrial structures

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 12, 2016. Electromachine (a member enterprise of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation) got its new invention, an electromagnetic contactor, patented by the Federal Intellectual Property Service, the company press service reports. Electromachine is currently working on the design, development, and market launch of the new product. This contactor type is more technologically advanced than its predecessor the pneumatic contactor, which the company now makes on a serial scale. ‘Pneumatic contactors contain mechanisms that make the whole thing bulkier and more expensive, whereas