UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 19, 2017. Russian Copper Company’s Kyshtym Copper Electrolysis Plant celebrated its 260th anniversary on Metallurgist’s Day, the company press service reports. ‘The festivities began with a special program for the plant’s long-service employees. Around a hundred former workers were invited to a special reception at the company club. The plant’s Deputy DG Vladimir Semin and Chair of the Long-Service Employees’ Council Valeriy Klepcha congratulated their guests on the special date and talked about how the plant is operating these days. The former employees also went on

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 19, 2017. EVRAZ came with a performance report on the results achieved at Innoprom 2017 International Industrial Exhibition on July 10-13 in Yekaterinburg, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Relations Center reports. ‘EVRAZ, which turns 25 this year, signed four agreements with companies based in Japan, Belarus, and Russia. Russia’s Industry and Trade Minister Denis Manturov paid a visit to the company stand. EVRAZ Vice President and head of EVRAZ Holding Ural Maxim Andriasov presented the company produce, including our new high-speed railway wheels, to the minister,’

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 19, 2017. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) and ATOL are now offering their cashless payment services in all the parts of the country where the bank runs its outlets. Businesses all over the country can also benefit from the special welcome bonuses the bank offers to companies switching to its acquiring services, the bank’s press service reports. The UBRD will only charge its partner companies 1.6% of the card transaction amount, which is much less than the market’s average. Setting up a POS terminal takes under three days, and the bank’s

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 19, 2017. MegaFon subscribers spent more than 5,500 hours on their phones during the four days of the Innoprom 2017 International Industrial Exhibition, which was twice as long as one year earlier, MegaFon’s press service reports. According to the telecommunications provider’s analysts, the second day of the exhibition proved the most popular one: visitors to Yekaterinburg EXPO site spent more time calling others and surfing the Internet from their smartphones on July 11 than on any other day, with call duration up by 38% and Internet traffic up by 91% compared with

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 19, 2017. Sverdlovsk Region Public Property Management Ministry and Sverdlovsk Region Property Fund had over 440 unauthorized billboards, 651 light-box advertisements, and 136 street banners removed in the first half of the year, the ministry’s press service reports. ‘In addition to steps taken to handle the offenses (that is, dismantling of unauthorized advertising fixtures), the ministry also sent some 750 reports and orders to stop violating the existing advertising legislation to billboard and light-box owners and to owners of the buildings where the