UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 23, 2017. Sinara Group’s Sinara Development, the general contractor for the reconstruction of Yekaterinburg Stadium in time for the World Cup 2018, is now working to get spectator seats installed in the arena, Sinara Group’s PR Center reports. ‘The stadium will be fitted with vandalism-proof ergonomic plastic seats made from ultraviolet-resistant, corrosion-resistant, cold- and heat-resistant, fireproof materials. All seats got certified for compliance with fire safety, sanitary safety, and overall security requirements. There will be various seat types in the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 23, 2017. The final round of the 6th Corporate International EVRAZ Cup Football Championship took place in Kachkanar last week. The annual event was held on August 13-20. EVRAZ Kachkanar Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise (KGOK) team won the cup for the first time in history. The company press service reports nine teams from the Urals, Siberia, Nakhodka, Moscow, and Ukraine competed for the cup. EVRAZ NTMK beat EVRAZ ZSMK 2:1 to win the third prize, and EVRAZ Ukraine and EVRAZ KGOK competed in the finals (1:1 during the game and 5:4 during penalty kicks). EVRAZ

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 23, 2017. Russian Copper Company’s Novgorod Metallurgical Plant in Velikiy Novgorod completed repairs of its Maerz furnace, the company press service reports. ‘The furnace had to be shut down for scheduled repairs at the end of July. Everything was completed by our own staff ahead of schedule; no outsource contractors were used. We took care of power and mechanical equipment maintenance and checked all the measuring devices and automated appliances. The furnace was fitted with new water jackets and slag valves; additionally, the slag chamber, the exhaust heat

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 23, 2017. SKB-Bank’s representative is going to be on the judges’ panel at Finopolis 2017, a financial startups contest and an important event in the national finance sector, in Sochi this fall, the bank’s press service reports. The startup contest is held during Finopolis Innovative Finance Technologies Forum every year; the event gets coordinated by Russia’s Central Bank. The contesting startups get selected by a judges’ panel comprising representatives of the FinTech Association member banks. Startups can present projects ranging from scoring, biometric, and

UrBC, Moscow, August 23, 2017. The average asking price of a used car came to 535,000 RUR on the Russian market this August, Avtostat reports. This is 5.8% less than in December 2016. It is reported that used car prices kept rising since December 2014, when the average asking price stood at 430,000 RUR and thus increased by a whopping 32% two years later (up to 568,000 RUR). This year, the prices have been gradually going down. Whereas the new car market expanded by 8.5% in the seven months of 2017, the used car market has been stagnating and only grew by 0.8% compared with the start of the