UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 29, 2017. Workers of ChTPZ Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ) met with Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Evgeny Kuivashev on the plant’s premises. More than two hundred employees and students on the Future of White Metallurgy Corporate Training Program attended the event, the Group’s press service reports. ‘Governor Kuivashev has been here many times and knows both our production process and our corporate philosophy (aka White Metallurgy) quite well. The company’s cooperation with Sverdlovsk Region’s authorities proved very fruitful in the last few years. We

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, August 29, 2017. MMK Group’s MMK METIZ proved one of United Wagon Company’s Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant’s preferred metal goods suppliers in the course of a special assessment procedure in the second quarter of the year, the company press service reports. The assessment procedure is part of Russian Railways’ requirements, the plant’s own standards, and the international IRIS standard. The goal is to control supply quality and reliability and to avoid and eliminate any logistics problems. Tikhvin Freight Car Building Plant also sees this evaluation as a

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 29, 2017. The average asking price went up by 2.8% (up to 46,302 RUR per m2) on Sverdlovsk Region’s new home market between February and August 2017, Novosel Group’s research findings indicate. Prices rose for all types of new homes, including studio apartments (+2.9%), one-bedroom ones (+2.6%), and two-bedroom ones (+2.7%). As of August 2017, studios can be had for 46,302 RUR per m2, one-bedroom homes for 45,651 RUR per 2, and two-bedroom ones for 46,653 RUR on average. ‘The price increase mostly has to do with the fact that putting up an apartment building now

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 29, 2017. Power suppliers report Sverdlovsk Region’s buildings are poorly prepared for the upcoming heating season, EnergosbyT Plus’s local division reports. Local management company only managed to prepare 15% of Sverdlovsk Region’s housing fund for winter by the end of summer. 2,246 apartment buildings were issued technical compliance certificates by EnergosbyT Plus. ‘The buildings with the certificates carried out all the necessary technological procedures such as pneumatic rinsing and hydraulic pressure tests of the building’s internal heating system and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 29, 2017. Acting Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Evgeny Kuivashev set up an ad hoc committee to look into local authorities’ proposals on how to handle inter-budgetary transfers from the constituency’s budget funds, Governor of Sverdlovsk Region’s Information Policy Department reports. Local town councils must submit their inter-budgetary transfer data to the committee by September 5, 2017; Sverdlovsk Region’s Finance Ministry will then coordinate a number budget drafting sessions (to be attended by town council and Sverdlovsk Region Government officials and local