UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 4, 2016. Past-due mortgage payments reached 4.633,5bn RUR in Sverdlovsk Region in June 2016, which was 53% more than one year earlier, United Credit Bureau informs UrBC. According to the Bureau, past-due mortgage payments used to come to 1.8% of all mortgage debts one year ago; now they come to 2.5%. The number of past-due mortgages rose by 600, from 3,039 up to 3,639. The overall number of mortgages rose by 14% in the course of one year, up to 107,425, while the overall amount of repayments thus came to 185,358.8bn RUR (up 16% on June 2015).

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 4, 2016. Sverdlovsk Region Public Property Management Ministry and Yekaterinburg Council came up with outdoor advertising regulations for the city. Under these regulations, there will remain 1,665 outdoor ad locations in the city all in all, whereas the current number comes to 7,990 (only 1,500 of which are legitimately there). This means 80% of existing outdoor ads will have to be pulled down by their owners. The Ministry also reports they are currently working on regulations for placing billboards along Serovsky Tract. This highway will host over a hundred of

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 4, 2016. EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK) supported Street Workout Championship in Nihzniy Tagil as the event’s partner, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s press office reports. The championship contestants competed on horizontal bars, climbing frames, and parallel bars. The equipment purchase was funded by EVRAZ Holding, since the company decided to support Workout for Crowds, the project aimed at promoting a healthier lifestyle and sports workouts among the younger people and providing the necessary training and contest conditions. ‘The

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 4, 2016. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development’s savings certificates amounted to over 2bn RUR in total on July 1, 2016, which is Russia’s third largest amount on the savings certificates market, the bank’s press service reports. The overall savings certificate amount rose by more than 2.5 times in the first half of the year, even though the market’s average only stood at 4.1% at the time. This means the UBRD is far ahead of other banking market players. ‘The increasingly growing interest in savings certificates has to do with the ongoing downward

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 4, 2016. Miners of Raspadsky Mine made their 2,000,000th ton of coal this year in just six months. The mine’s overall coal output is thus 35% larger than one year earlier, EVRAZ Holding’s PR Department reports. 2,950,000 m3 of stone got uncovered for the first time in the company’s history, at the speed of 2.5m m3 a month. Thus the miners both reached their target coal production figures and made reserves for the future. ‘This increase in the mine’s production output stems primarily from the miners’ efforts to cut down on emergency shutdowns and work more