UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 3, 2016. EVRAZ Holding Ural’s EVRAZ Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK) and EVRAZ Kachkanar Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise (KGOK) recently held a professional skills contest among its managerial staff, the company press service reports. The contest was coordinated in several stages in the course of three months. The competition rounds aimed to reveal the contestants’ team leadership qualities, purposefulness, and systemic thinking. This was the first time that the two finalist teams - the ones from NTMK and KGOK - were both from EVRAZ

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 3, 2016. Workers of Russian Copper Company’s Kyshtym Copper Electrolysis Plant received state awards at the Governor of Chelyabinsk Region’s office on September 26, the company press service reports. Based on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decree, Governor of Chelyabinsk Region Boris Dubrovsky presented the For Merit to the Fatherland Medals (Class II) to smelter from the plant’s Copper-Smelting Department Alexander Kuklev and a long-service employee and former electrolysis operator at the Electrolysis Department Ivan Masyo for their work achievements,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 3, 2016. Russian Copper Company’s charity fund coordinated a special event for children and employees at Alenushka, a kindergarten for visually impaired children in Kyshtym, the company press service reports. The company helped coordinate two performances of a play called Khnyka & Gyka at the kindergarten. ‘This is a spectacular and unusual piece by Live Theater, a traveling musical theater run by the composer, playwright, and legendary ‘Grandfather of Ural Rock’ Alexander Pantykin. The play is special in that it presents live sound, live musical instruments,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 3, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Kamensk-Uralsky Foundry Plant (KULZ) started putting up a new boiler plant, the corporation’s press service reports. Just like the one currently in use, the future boiler plant will provide electric power for KULZ facilities, at a new level of technological excellence. ‘The new boiler plant only uses hot water rather than hot water and steam, which is much more energy efficient. This will result in considerable natural gas and electric power savings for the plant,’ says KULZ Senior Power Engineer Sergey Selishchev. According

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 3, 2016. Metcombank’s Akademichesky branch in Yekaterinburg turns six on September 30, the bank’s press service reports. ‘Metcombank is working closely with the locals and was the first bank to open a branch in this new district. Also, the bank has been offering a special loyalty card for Akademichesky residents for four years now,’ the press service says. Akademichesky Loyalty Card is a bank card that allows its holder to receive bonuses when paying their housing and phone bills, pay kindergarten fees and for school lunches commission-free, and get quite a few