UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 27, 2017. The second launching unit of Yekaterinburg Orbital Motorway’s southern half will get launched on August 25, 2017, Sverdlovsk Region’s Information Policy Department refers to Deputy Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Sergey Shvindt as saying. Shvindt says all the building jobs planned for this year have been completed. This cost 256m RUR to do, including 204.8m RUR allocated from the national budget; the rest was supplied from the constituency’s budget. He also made a report to Governor Evgeny Kuivashev on how the building and repairs of other roads in Sverdlovsk

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 27, 2017. Sinara Group’s Sinara Development, the general contractor for the reconstruction of Yekaterinburg Stadium in time for the World Cup 2018, fully completed the construction of the stadium roof, the company press service reports. The new roof rests on eight pylons 45.5 meters high. The structure’s total area comes to nearly 28,000 m2. The metal frame is covered with steel sheets and an elastic membrane coating made of enhanced-durability, light-absorbing polymeric tent material. This combination of roofing materials will protect visitors to the stadium both

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, July 27, 2017. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) came first in the national rating of zinc-coated and paint-coated rolled goods manufacturers. The rating of Russia’s best ferrous and non-ferrous metallurgical businesses for the first half of the year was carried in the latest issue of Metallosnabzheniye I Sbyt magazine. According to MMK’s Information & PR Administration, the plant was No.1 on this rating last year as well. ‘This company remains the leading coated rolled goods producer thanks to MMK’s ongoing efforts to increase the share of high value-added

UrBC, Moscow, July 27, 2017. People living in Ural Federal Districts only make 89.5% of their payments online, whereas in the country on the whole, the share of online payments comes to 91.5% of the entire transaction volume, Yandex.Dengi reports. Russians based in North-Western, Central, and Southern Federal Districts make more online payments than others (92%, 91.8%, and 91.8% of their entire payments, respectively).

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 27, 2017. Yekaterinburg-based customers spent 7,400 RUR on average when puirhcainsg a plane ticket online in the first half of the year; according to Yandex.Dengi, this is 23% less than one year previously. All in all, the number of online payments Yekaterinburg residents make rose by 52% against one year earlier, and the overall turnover rose by as much as 77%. Apart from paying for plane tickets, locals tend to make their loan repayments online (2,700 RUR on average) and TV subscriptions (1,800 RUR). Additionally, increasingly more payments are made to the