UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 30, 2016. Yekaterinburg is currently Russia’s fifth most expensive housing rental market, according to the website Mir Kvartir. At the moment, renting a studio apartment in Yekaterinburg costs 15,848 RUR a month (down 4.4% on the previous quarter); a one-bedroom home can get rented for 21,130 RUR a month (up 7.6% on the previous quarter), and a two-bedroom one for 34,982 RUR a month (up 3.1%). The average rental prices rose by 7.8% altogether in the course of the last twelve months. Moscow is predictably the priciest rental location, where a month’s rent for a

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 30, 2016. Ural Airlines offered its services to 6.4m passengers this year, which exceeds the figures for a year earlier by 18%, the air carrier’s press office reports. ‘Interestingly, the Russian air carriers’ overall passenger traffic actually declined by 5% against last year,’ the press service says. In addition to an increase in passenger traffic, the number of flights Ural Airlines operated this year also went up by 10%, while the air carrier’s fleet of vehicles got complemented by three new aircraft. ‘We also introduced new flight destinations and expanded

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 30, 2016. Every one in six MegaFon subscribers owns a 4G mobile device, the telecommunications provider’s press service states. The 1,000,000th gadget registered with MegaFon network happened to be a smartphone; these actually make up 82% of all 4G devices within the company network. The company’s 4G Internet traffic rose by 78% in the second half of the year and now comes to over 2m Gb a month, which is comparable to downloading some 300,000,000 songs. November proved a peak LTE traffic month for MegaFon, in many ways due to extremely cold weather: smartphone

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 30, 2016. EVRAZ Holding is going to present over 24,000 children in Nizhniy Tagil and Kachkanar with New Year’s gifts, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s press office reports. Toys and sweets are meant for the children of the company employees as well as those living in foster homes and children with disabilities. ‘Our employees’ children will also be able to enjoy a number of theater shows during the New Year’s break. A fairly tale called Two Princesses and A Firebird and a New Year’s quest Morozko will be staged at Culture Palaces in Nizhniy Tagil, and a number of

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 30, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation rounds the year up with impressive production and financial performance results, the company press service reports. Year’s revenues come to 141.9bn RUR, which is 30% better than one year earlier and 11% better than the all-time high of the year 2012. This was possible due to increased export of military goods and restoration of the company’s railcar-making branch. The company’s military goods exports and railcar output rose by 2.2 times and 2.4 times, respectively, against last year. Not only does the plant sell more goods