UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 31, 2017. EVRAZ NTMK keeps working on its new ball-rolling mill, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Relations Center reports. The mill will be eventually launched at the rail and beam department; the workers are currently busy assembling the basic mill equipment. ‘We need to get the pre-heating furnace, the rolling mill stand, the ball thermal treatment section, and the unloading section assembled. The production line is going to be 300 meters long. Once launched, it will create quite a few new jobs,’ the Center says. The use of a new two-stage hardening technology and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 31, 2017. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) launched a pilot project this August to find new workers with the help of an automated system, the bank’s press service reports. A voice bot, a recruiter named Vera, processes all the applications candidates submit on job-hunting sites, and contacts the ones whose qualifications match those of a particular job opening the bank has. UBRD Corporate Development & Personnel Management Director Yuri Voronin says relying on a robot will result in more efficient handling of recruitment-related tasks.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 31, 2017. Rosset’s Federal Grid Company United Energy System carried its usual scheduled heat monitoring of electric units at its power substations in Western Siberia and eliminated problems that were detected during the checks, the company press service reports. This is meant to prevent emergencies and to ensure a more reliable power supply to the area’s 3.5m-plus end users. ‘We use a thermal imager to do our heat monitoring routines: the imager traces even the smallest temperature fluctuations, which allows to detect problems at a very early stage and fix them

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 31, 2017. The telecommunications provider MegaFon celebrated its 15th anniversary by launching 4G Internet connection in the village of Kharp in Yamal Peninsula, the company press service reports. ‘The fourth-generation network is now available in the remotest part of the peninsula. We introduced 4G connection in Kharp, where the Ural Mountains begin, in the year MegaFon turned fifteen. Locals can now enjoy really speedy data transfer,’ says MegaFon Ural’s Director Valeriy Velichko. MegaFon expanded its 4G network by 33% since the start of the year (covering 150

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 31, 2017. Ural Airlines will be operating direct and scheduled flights from Saint Petersburg’s Pulkovo Airport to Namangan, Uzbekistan, the air carrier’s press service reports. The flights will be operated on comfortable Airbus A320 planes every Wednesday; the return flight to Saint Petersburg will be operated on Thursdays. ‘One of Uzbekistan’s largest cities, Namangan in located in Fergana Valley. The city is famous for its history (dating back hundreds of years): this is where you can see the ruins of the ancient settlement of Ahsikent, for example. Namangan is