UrBC, Moscow, October 13, 2016. Only 20% of Sverdlovsk Region-based families can afford to buy a car that costs 470,000 RUR on credit, RIA Rating reports. Also, only 5.6% of the agency’s research subjects can afford to buy a car that costs 1.2m RUR on credit. A car that costs 5m RUR is only affordable for 0.5% of Ural families. As for the country on the whole, over a third of households based in seven different constituencies can afford to buy and operate a new car that costs 470,000 RUR, while an average family can afford to buy a used car, at least. The share of such families is as high as

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 13, 2016. Prices on Yekaterinburg existing home market dropped by 0.5% (down to 68,243 RUR per m2 on average) in the last four weeks, Ural Real Estate Chamber reports. It is reported that the price decrease stopped for a while in July and August, but the downward trend was there again in mid-September. Average asking price dropped by 0.4% for centrally located apartments in September and thus came to 96,618 RUR per m2. The next priciest apartments near the centrally located ones grew 0.2% less expensive (down to 73,081 RUR per m2). Prices in the city’s third and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 13, 2016. Pipe Metallurgical Company’s Sinara Pipe Plant made and delivered to Surgutneftegaz 788,700 kg of GOST R 53366-2009 Type Q cold-proof casing pipes (diameter: 146.1mm, strength grade: N80) with TMK UP FMC threaded joints, Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK) reports. The casing pipes with TMK UP FMC threaded joints are meant to be used at oil and natural gas deposits and gas condensate fields in the Polar North (operation temperature down to sixty degrees centigrade below zero). The pipes get installed at vertical and inclined wells (drift angle build-up 3.3

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 13, 2016. EVRAZ Holding’s 4th Youth Conference closed in Nizhniy Tagil, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s press office reports. Scientifically-minded representatives of the holding’s eight member enterprises based in the Urals, Siberia, and Ukraine took part in the event. The four days of the conference were spent handling the contest challenges and drafting improvement proposals for the holding’s technological and repair divisions. ‘It makes me happy to see that our younger workers come up with bold ideas and have the confidence to defend their point. EVRAZ keeps introducing

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 13, 2016. Over sixty employees of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s machine-building member enterprise Vityaz in Bashkortostan received honorary certificates for their outstanding performance, the company press service reports. NC machine operator Nikolai Skornyakov, who has worked at Vityaz for thirty-four years now, and electric welder Radik Nabiullin, who has been with the plant for three decades, received Russia’s Industry & Trade Ministry’s certificates. Turner from the company’s Assembly Department Iskandar Sitdikov was given the Republic of Bashkortostan’s