UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 13, 2016. Rails made at EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK) are now used for putting up subways in Georgia’s capital. More than 350,000 kg of rails have already been delivered to Tbilisi, the company press service says. The 25-meter-long P50/NT260 rails are meant for the new station University. This is going to be the 23d station on Saburtalinskaya Line. ‘EVRAZ NTMK rails meet all the modern technical standards and got certified for compliance with the Customs Union’s requirements. Every item undergoes automated non-destructive

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 13, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (ChTZ) celebrates seventy-five years of engine-making on December 12, the company press service reports. The very first engine made completely in Chelyabinsk got assembled on December 12, 1941. This special date is now considered the start of engine-making activities at the plant. Chelyabinsk Kirov Plant, as it was then called, was making as many as ten B-2 diesel engines a day by January 1942 and had supplied over 9,000 engines to the front by the end of the year. In 1944, the plant reached a

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 13, 2016. The 5th extension to Greenwich Shopping Mall will open in Yekaterinburg on December 16. The new building is connected to the city’s Arboretum and Geologicheskaya Subway Station via two underground walking tunnels, the developer reports. The developer, Obschestvo Malysheva 73, spent more than 6bn RUR on the building, which is 69,000 m2 big. Thus the mall’s entire area (including all the parking lots and all the facilities) comes to 339,176 m2. ‘This is the last extension to the mall, and it is now that everyone can see the entire set of buildings as it

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 13, 2016. Russian Copper Company and their syndicated loan Mandated Lead Arranger Natixis completed the transaction that provides the former with a five-year, non-revolving $300m loan, the company press service reports. Six international financial groups joined the deal as Mandated Lead Arrangers: Russia’s Alfa-Bank, the UK’s UBS, Russia’s Sberbank, France’s Société Générale, Russia’s Rosbank, and Russia’s UniCreditBank. Quite a few banks proved very interested in the deal, with many more bids placed than could actually get accepted. The French international bank

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 13, 2016. Beloyarskaya Nuclear Power Plant directed over 42.2m RUR to environmental protection measures last year. For one, the plant’s treated water disinfection unit was reconstructed and switched from chlorination to ultraviolet treatment, the plant’s press service reports. The news was announced at a presentation of the plant’s environmental safety report for 2015 that Beloyarskaya representatives made at Atomic Energy Information Center in Yekaterinburg. The report was presented to members of Sverdlovsk Region and Zarecnhy Public Chambers, Zarechny council