UrBC, Moscow, October 12, 2016. The cost of an average shopping basket went up by 12% in Ural Federal District in September 2016 and came to 429 RUR, Romir Research Holding reports. According to Romir’s research findings, a Russian shopper spent 528 RUR per supermarket visit on average last month, which was 30 RUR, or 6% more than in August. Prices rose most noticeably in Central Federal District, where the average spend went up by as much as 10.5% in the course of one month and reached 600 RUR. Prices also increased in the country’s north-west, where the figure came to 614 RUR (up 7% on

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 12, 2016. Yekaterinburg’s Koltsovo International Airport offered its services to 3,258,557 people in the nine months of 2016, which was 2.8% less than one year earlier, the airport press service reports. 2,397,712 people were passengers on domestic flights (up 14% on a year earlier), 860,845 people were passengers on international flights (up 31% on a year earlier). Only Russian cities, namely, Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Sochi, Simferopol, and Novosibirsk, were among the the five most popular travel destinations. Over ten new flights were made available at Koltsovo

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 12, 2016. Sverdlovsk Railways forwarded less cargo in the last three months than the company did in the previous quarter; this holds for all the eight main cargo categories, the company press service reports. The freight forwarder handled 9.8m tons of chemical and mineral fertilizers in the third quarter of 2016 (-8.3% on the previous quarter), 105.4 tons of grains (-7.4%), 7.3m tons of ferrous metals (-6.8%), 1.6m tons of timber (-5.1%), 1.9m tons of cement (-2.7%), 1.8m tons of scrap ferrous metals (-1.4%), 2.8m tons of chemicals and sodium carbonate (-0.4%),

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 12, 2016. The asking price on Yekaterinburg new home market came to 69,891 RUR per m2 on average in the third quarter of the year, which was 0.2% more than in the previous quarter, Novosel reports. Centrally located new apartments grew 10.1% less expensive (down to 118,226 RUR per m2), those next to the centrally located ones (in the city’s second costliest districts) grew 1% less expensive (down to 72,577 RUR per m2). Housing prices in Yekaterinburg’s third, fourth, and fifth (the remotest and the least expensive) districts went down by 0.3% (down to 61,566 RUR

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 12, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant was founded eighty years ago today. The plant’s very first railcars came off the assembly lines on October 11, 1936, the company press service reports. Russia’s Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy Vladimir Putin signed a decree a few days earlier to award Ural Vagon Zavod with an honorary certificate ‘for helping to strengthen the country’s defense capacity and the development of up-to-date military vehicles and weaponry’. ‘Ural Vagon Zavod is the leading rolling stock manufacturer in the 1,520-mm zone and