UrBC, Saint Petersburg, July 25, 2016. United Shipbuilding Corporation’s Baltic Shipyard in Saint Petersburg started working on the Ural, Russia’s second serial Project 22220 nuclear-powered icebreaker. The body of the vessel will be made entirely out of Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) ship steel. MMK is going to supply some 15,000,000 kg of ship steel for the Ural altogether, their press service explains. As it happens, MMK steel was also used for the first icebreaker Arktika and the first serial ship Sibir. In fact, the plant is responsible for over 50% of all the metal goods sold

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 25, 2016. 685,660 people flew with Ural Airlines this June, which exceeds the figures for one year earlier by 20%, the company press service says. The air carrier operated 4,887 flights all in all, including 3,122 domestic flights, 1,042 international flights, and 723 flights around the CIS member states. This is 14% more than one year earlier. The company’s passenger turnover came to 1,661,397,000 passenger-kilometers in June 2016 (up 21% one June 2015). As for the entire year so far, Ural Airlines have offered their services to 2,659,801,000 passengers in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 25, 2016. Small and medium enterprises are switching to cloud telephony increasingly more often these days; the number of MegaFon subscribers using this service has tripled since the start of the year, the telecommunications provider reports. The company is confident that the demand has been rising due to obvious economic benefits and the possibility of easily setting up a contact number with a smart call-distributing system. In response to this new trend, MegaFon is offering its business customers a new option: a company can now subscribe to Hosted Telephony, get an

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 25, 2016. SKB-Bank recently came up with a new version of an m-banking app, the bank’s press service reports. The application is now available to iOS and Android smartphone users at App Store or Google Play. ‘The app offers users detailed account/deposit/loan information, allows them to make a money order or pay their bills. An m-bank user can also apply for a loan or a deposit online as well as contact our loan officers via a mobile chat. There is also card2card, a service that ensures instantaneous card-to-card cash transfer; all you need is the receiver’s card

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 25, 2016. ChTPZ Group shareholder and co-chair of Foundation for Development of Tube Industry Andrei Komarov was recently awarded the title of Russia’s Honored Metallurgist, the company press service reports. This was a way to acknowledge Komarov’s immense contribution to metallurgical industry’s development and many years of tireless work. The awarding decree was signed by Russia’s Industry & Trade Minister, while the honorary badge and the certificate were presented to Komarov by ChTPZ Chair of the BOD Alexander Fedorov. ‘Andrei Komarov is the primary

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 25, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation coordinated the company stage of the blue-collar jobs championship WorldSkills in Welding Technologies, the company press service reports. The first prize went to welder from the corporation’s head plant in Nizhniy Tagil Ilya Repin. Silver went to Dmitri Velikiy, also a head plant employee, and welder Ivan Osipovitch from the corporation’s member enterprise Uraltransmash won bronze. The winners are going to represent Ural Vagon Zavod at WorldSkills Hi Tech in Yekaterinburg this November. The corporation’s Deputy Director-General