UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 23, 2017. 567 companies with HQs in Sverdlovsk Region left the constituency and went elsewhere; twenty-one businesses were on government contracts, kartoteka.ru’s research findings indicate. The Mid-Urals are currently Russia’s No.7 in terms of business migration; Moscow (6,159 companies), Moscow Region (1,050), and Saint Petersburg (833) are the top three.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 23, 2017. Based on their cell phone use data, 54% of small and medium enterprises prefer to settle all the important issues in the afternoon, whereas 46% tend to do it in the morning, MegaFon’s press service reports. Now the Public Opinion Fund reports 37% of Russians describe themselves as ‘early birds’ and 45% as ‘owls’. Also, research has shown ‘owls’ are actually 18% more efficient at work than ‘early birds.’ MegaFon’s research findings indicate the number of outgoing calls made by business representatives in the Urals doubles after 2PM compared with the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 23, 2017. Russia’s leading pipe manufacturer and integrated solutions supplier for O&G companies Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant (ChTPZ) reports its 2012 syndicated loans (80bn RUR all in all) were recently redeemed ahead of schedule, the plant’s press service says. The loans got refinanced through funds obtained from Bank VTB, Gazprombank, and Sberbank in December 2016. The new loans were issued to the plant on better terms, which meant ChTPZ was able to ease its financial burden and come up with a more convenient principal debt payout schedule. The guarantee

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 23, 2017. The popular science show Notafact filmed one of its episodes on the premises of EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK); the episode dwells on the Russian metallurgical industry’s history and development and on the life of Efim and Miron Cherepanov, engineers and inventors, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s press office reports. The show host, actor Andrei Burkovsky, went to NTMK production site to look at how pig iron is made at the blast furnace department and to ask workers some questions about their job. He also got acquainted with the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 23, 2017. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation is holding Innovative Idea Contest for the first time this year, the company press service reports. Eligible to compete are workers who come up with a proposal that is innovative in technical, technological, process, or organizational terms. The first prize amounts to 300,000 RUR. ‘The goal is to stimulate and support our employees’ innovative activity in order to get new, greatly improved products and production technologies; to improve working conditions and management system; to make the company more competitive on the