UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 17, 2017. Russian Copper Company gave out valuable prizes to amateur photographers for their bright and expressive pictures of a light show projected onto Yekaterinburg Council building, the company press service reports. ‘Russian Copper Company’s light show, coordinated on December 29-January 8 with support from Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Evgeny Kuivashev, was probably the most memorable event of this year’s winter break in Yekaterinburg. The multimedia show got projected onto the city council building, with pictures and videos on Yekaterinburg’s past and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 17, 2017. Sinara Group’s Ural Locomotives handed its first 2ES7 AC freight loco with a-synchronic drive over to East-Siberian Railways’ Baikal-Amur Mainline (BAM), Sinara Group’s press service reports. The two-section locomotive got successfully tried out and certified in October-December 2016. ‘The mainline is normally used for giving extreme-conditions trial runs to all new types of locomotives. BAM presents a combination of operation-complicating factors: there are quite a few difficult slopes and angles, outside temperature varies between 50 degrees centigrade

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 17, 2017. My Vmeste Charity Fund and the telecommunications provider MegaFon Ural carried out a social service campaign to collect 30m RUR for terminally ill children by mid-December. This is 9m RUR more than in the year 2015, MegaFon’s press service reports. ‘A special video created by Voskhod Advertising Agency proved the key feature in drawing the public’s attention to the kids’ problems. The video both moved the general viewers and impressed adverting community professionals, as the clip won three important awards: PORA!2016 Social Service Announcement Prize

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 17, 2017. Russian Copper Company’s Karabashmed and Karabash Council singed a social partnership agreement, the company press service reports. Karabashmed Director-General Andrei Khanzhin, Mayor of Karabash Oleg Budanov, Chair of Deputies’ Council Dmitri Shutkin, Russian Copper Company Vice President for HR & SCR Anna Shabarova, and Russian Copper Company Social Policy Director Elena Tarasova took part in the signing ceremony. The framework partnership agreement will cover both new projects (construction of the sports facility Metallurg and a shopping mall,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 17, 2017. 1,149,000 passengers traveled abroad from Regional Airports Holding’s Koltsovo Airport in Yekaterinburg last year, which was 23.5% less than one year previously, the airport’s Strategic Communications Department reports. At the same time, passenger traffic rose by 14.8% for domestic flights and reached the record-setting 3,151,000 people. 4,300,000 people went through Koltsovo Airport last year altogether, which was 53,000 people more than in the year 2015. Sixty-eight air carriers operated their flights from the airport to 135 different destinations in