UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 30, 2017. Ural Airlines re-launch their direct Moscow-Munich-Moscow flight starting December 30. The flight will be available every Tuesday and Saturday, the air carrier’s press service reports. Flights will be operated from Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport through the end of winter 2017/2018. Prices start from 7,200 RUR for Promo tickets (one way) and from 9,000 RUR for Economy tickets (one way, one piece of luggage and a set of sports equipment included). The price covers all fees and charges. ‘Munich is one of Germany’s most beautiful cities with plenty of museums,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 30, 2017. A modern diffuse unit was recently launched at EVRAZ Holding’s Sheregeshskiy Mine as part of the company’s rock refuse recycling program. According to the company press service, the unit cost over 5m RUR to install. The launch of the diffuse unit has meant the mine reduced its stored waste and refuse by more than 200,000,000 kg a year and cut down impressively on transportation expenses. Savings are estimated at some 8m RUR a year. ‘The rock refuse goes through our diffuse unit and results in a new product, macadam (diameter: 0-5 mm and 5-20 mm).

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 30, 2017. SKB-Bank is currently integrationg VisionLabs’ LUNA, a biometric face recognition platform, into its IT infrastructure, the bank’s press service reports. The two companies signed an open-end licensing agreement in August 2017. One reason the bank decided to launch the platform was switching to digital banking channels. The contract with VisionLabs is a logical component of SKB-Bank’s development strategy: the face recognition platform can offer the most up-to-date and advanced solutions to a number of important problems. Analyzing the bank’s customer base

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 30, 2017. Sverdlovsk Region residents’ accumulated income amounted to 160.1bn RUR in June 2017, which was 3.4% less than one year earlier, Sverdlovskstat reports. At the same time, their spending came to 160.7bn RUR, which was 3.3% less than in June 2016. The preliminary figures for the first half of 2017 reached 870.6bn RUR for income (up 0.1% on one year previously) and 876.6bn RUR for expenses (down 0.6% on a year earlier). Locals spent 714.4bn RUR to pay for goods and services in January-June 2017, which was 1.2% more than one year earlier.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 30, 2017. Sinara Group’s Sinara Development started assembling the framework of Yekaterinburg EXPO Congress Center, the Group’s PR Center reports. According to Sinara Development’s Director-General Timur Ufimtsev, the assembly can get done quickly and efficiently thanks to using a metal frame and reinforced concrete plates. This will also ensure the building’s excellent operational properties. ‘The framework is expected to be finished in early spring of 2018. The entire structure will weigh around 5,000,000 kg,’ Ufimtsev said. The workers are currently busy