UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 14, 2016. The oxygen compressor department at EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhiy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (EVRAZ NTMK) was built seventy-five years ago this month, the company press service reports. To celebrate the occasion, a special ceremony was held at the plant’s Culture & Arts Center to award the best workers and long-service employees. More than sixty people received thank-you letters and honorary certificates. ‘The department’s function is to ensure uninterrupted supply of air, oxygen, nitrogen, argon, and industrial gases to the plant’s production

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 14, 2016. SKB-Bank is now offering its customers debt refinancing loans that will allow them to merge several loans and credit cards into a single loan, the bank’s press service reports. ‘You can apply for a loan amount that will exceed the debt amount if necessary, and spend the remaining sum at will. The interest rate is fixed for the entire loan period and comes to 22.9% a year, which actually cuts down on the monthly payments,’ the press service says. Example: a customer currently has two consumer loans (500,000 RUR altogether) and has to pay back 10,000 RUR

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 14, 2016. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) is now offering its business customers a new short-term loan, the bank’s press service reports. Borrowers who are new to the bank and have no credit history will be offered a special unsecured loan on the first day their settlement account gets opened. According to UBRD Corporates Development Director Elena Sorvina, the bank’s new offer consists in short-term express loan services (loan period ranges between thirty and ninety days) related to a company’s settlement account. The account owner can

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 14, 2016. The telecommunications provider MegaFon is now working together with the ISP Dom.Ru to save its customers up to 500 roubles a month on telecommunications services, MegaFon’s Marketing Director Leonid Syavkov said at a press lunch recently. ‘The two companies are now offering mobile connection and home Internet connection/digital TV broadcasting in a single package, with a customer provided a 20% discount on both MegaFon’s and Dom.Ru’s services,’ Syavkov is referred to as saying. It is reported the offer holds for all the subscribers who are currently

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, September 14, 2016. Miners from EVRAZ Holding’s Alardinskaya Mine started working on the new long-face 3-39 with an estimated 2,900,000,000 kg of valuable KS coal, the holding’s press service reports. Miners are now working at 325 meters below the ground. To ensure their safety, the site gets ventilated and a gas-suction unit is used to remove the methane-air mixture from the work area. Also, gases get additionally drained from the rock cavity. ‘Some highly productive stoping equipment is used in this mine face, with coal output up to 230,000,000 kg of coal a month. The