UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 24, 2017. EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK) bought four new comfortable buses for employee home-to-work transfers, the holding’s Ural division reports. The new buses will be used on both the inner city and commuter routes. The vehicles are currently being tested and will start doing the transfers in the nearest future. ‘One of the company’s CSR programs is about ensuring employee transfer to work and back. NTMK gets its bus pool renovated and upgraded on a regular basis to make sure our workers can commute comfortably,’ says EVRAZ

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 24, 2017. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) has issued over 33,000 national Mir cards so far and intends to get another 25,000 cards issued by the end of the month, the bank’s press service reports. According to the bank’s Banking Services Sales Director Sergey Zinoviev, the bank is now issuing more Mir cards in order to meet its customers’ needs. ‘These are first and foremost the customers who use these card accounts as their salary ones, which is the case with everyone who works in the civil service sector. This means some 120,000 cards will

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 24, 2017. Maxim Populov, who is currently on ChTPZ Group’s Future of White Metallurgy Corporate Training Program, took part in the international Global Skills Challenge 2017 in Newcastle, Australia, the Group’s press service reports. The corporate program student competed in Industrial Mechanics & Assembly as part of the WorldSkills Russia team; he won the fourth prize. Representatives of seventeen different countries competed in twenty-one categories in this contest altogether. ‘This is the first time ChTPZ Group is competing in Industrial Mechanics &

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, July 24, 2017. The national DH and 4X mountain bike championship begins at Metallurg Magnitogorsk Ski Center in Banny, Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Information & PR Administration reports. Contestants kept signing in for the last two days; also, an admissions council’s meeting and that of the teams’ representatives were held prior to the start of the championship. ‘Juniors in the 13-18 age group will do their qualification and final challenges in DH today and tomorrow. Women over 17 and men in the Elite group will also compete for the national DH

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 24, 2017. A new football pitch was built in Yekaterinburg’s Yugo-Zapadny District with support from Obschestvo Malysheva 73 Charity Foundation, the organization’s press service reports. Children and adults can now do No.1 Sport in a large pitch with man-made green lawn at 73 Amundsen St. ‘This football pitch is part of our Sports Victories Program that is coordinated by Obschestvo Malysheva 73 Charity Foundation, Dobrye Dela Foundation, and the Anton Shipulin Foundation. Boys and girls started kicking the ball in the pitch even before the official opening ceremony