UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 29, 2016. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) made more profit in commissions the bank charged small and medium enterprises in the third quarter of the year compared with one year earlier, the bank’s press service reports. The figure rose by 66% in the course of one year and came to 296.4m RUR. This was mainly brought about by the increase in the amount of settlement and cash payment services offered to businesses. The number of customers who applied for banking services with the UBRD went up by 11.8% in QIII’16 compared with QIII’15.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 29, 2016. The developer RSG-Akademicheskoye put up some 100,000 m2 of new housing in Yekaterinburg’s Akademicheskiy District, the company Director-General Viktor Kisselev said at a press conference. ‘We reached this year’s target output figures as early as November and sold 105,000 m2 worth of new housing since the start of the year. This year proved a little better than last one, so the target figures for the year 2017 will go up from 100,000 m2 to 105,000 m2. Sales are also expected to increase,’ Kisselev said. According to Kisselev, the per-square-meter price

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 29, 2016. Ural Airlines now operates direct flights from Saint Petersburg and Moscow’s Zhukovsky Airport to Tel Aviv, Israel, the air carrier’s press service reports. Flights will be operated every Thursday and Sunday starting from March 19. Prices start from 8,000 RUR (one piece of luggage under 10kg included) for Saint Petersburg-Tel Aviv flights and from 8,350 RUR (one piece of luggage under 10kg included) for Moscow-Tel Aviv ones. ‘The departure and arrival times are scheduled conveniently for those wishing to plan their trips by the minute. For one, you can

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 29, 2016. Twenty-six New Year’s Eve parties will be coordinated for children of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s employees and everyone else in Nizhniy Tagil during this holiday season. 17,656 children will be given candy and chocolate as presents, the company press service reports. ‘An ice sculpture park was put up next to I.V. Okunev Culture Palace by order of Ural Vagon Zavod. This year’s theme is reminiscent of a special date for the Soviet film-making company Soyuzmultfilm (which was founded eighty years ago this year), so the thirteen ice sculptures represent

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 29, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant (ChTZ) supplied four B10M.600 bulldozers to Chukotka by order of the company Iceberg, the corporation’s press service reports. According to the company’s Far East Sales Director Anton Sokolov, the bulldozers were first sent to Vladivostok by rail and then to a place called Lavrentia by sea. From there, the vehicles traveled to smaller settlements; the bulldozer meant for the remote location Neshkan, inhabited by hunters and reindeer breeders, had to be taken there by helicopter. Neshkan is located