UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 18, 2016. Head of Yekaterinburg Council Alexander Yakob and VTB Bank’s Deputy President Mikhail Oseyevsky signed a cooperation agreement on August 17, the city council’s website states. ‘The document is an important stage in the development of this partnership between the city of Yekaterinburg and one of Russia’s largest banks. Given the upcoming world football championship of 2018 and the games that will be hosted by Yekaterinburg, infrastructure development and finding investment are the two priorities the bank is willing to help us with,’ Yakob said. The

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 18, 2016. Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Evgeny Kuivashev asked the constituency’s Health Ministry to work on the documentation needed to set up an emergency room in Yekaterinburg’s Akademichesky District, UrBC reporter says. ‘This is something that needs to be done immediately,’ the Governor said at Sverdlovsk Region Government meeting on August 17. Kuivashev also pointed to the need to purchase the buildings needed for children’s and adults’ clinics in the area. Head of Yekaterinburg Council Alexander Yakob said the emergency room would require 50 to 60m RUR to

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 18, 2016. Pervouralsk Metallurgical School enrolled new students on ChTPZ Group’s Future of White Metallurgy corporate training program for the sixth time this year. According to the Group’s press service, two hundred fifteen year-olds got full scholarships to study on the program this year. The vocational training program provides students with qualifications in six different blue-collar jobs that the Group’s member enterprises need most. Metal treatment under pressure and operation and maintenance of electric equipment proved the two most popular fields of study

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 18, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (ChTZ) presented its new B11.8000 bulldozer at a recent vehicle exhibition in Taman; the exhibition was part of the 2nd Best in Profession 2016 Contest, a professional skills championship for workers in the Russian road-building businesses, the corporation’s press service reports. ‘Our bulldozer drew some attention from the exhibition’s guests of honor, official visitors, heads of Russia’s transport ministries and departments, representatives of the state authorities in charge of supervising road

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 18, 2016. ChTPZ Group’s META sold 667,000,000 kg of scrap ferrous metals in the first half of 2016, which exceeded the figures for one year earlier (624,000,000 kg) by 7%, the company press service reports. This figure included 342,000,000 kg of scrap metal from the Group’s own supplies and 325,000,000 kg from outside suppliers. The increase in scrap metal sales had to do with both the market expansion (+3% compared with the first half of 2015) and ChTPZ Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant’s increased demand (+5%). ‘Domestic demand for scrap metal dropped a bit at