UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 9, 2017. According to Roskomnxdzor’s recent report, the country’s Big4 telecommunications providers put up 39,682 LTE stations throughout Russia in the nine months of 2017, of which MegaFon put up every one in four 4G base stations, the company press service reports. ‘MegaFon is behind the largest fourth-generation network construction project in the country. The carrier has more LTE base stations than any other company, with the overall number up by 39% in the nine months of this year (60,000 all in all). LTE base stations make up 44% of all newly built

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 9, 2017. SKB-Bank was featured among the top three Russian banks with the best m-banking and e-banking services for private customers; the rating was created by Expert RA’s analysts, the bank’s press service reports. SKB-Bank’s mobile banking app came second in the usability rating, while its Internet banking system came third. Both its m-banking and e-banking services proved to have outstanding payment options, internal transaction options, and service functions; they also featured high in the IT & Finance Security Rating. Expert RA tested the banks’

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 9, 2017. Ural Airlines are now the official air carrier for the crew of the Krusenshtern, the four-masted barque and the last active sailing vessel in the legendary Flying P-Liners, the company press service reports. The ship’s crew will arrive in Moscow from a barque moored in one of Kaliningrad’s ports. The crew’s story was adapted for stage in Sea Moments, a documentary play starring Sergey Garmash. The play was created by Mikhail Kozhukhov’s Travel Club. The club has been coordinating tours aboard the barque for the three years now, and the play is an attempt

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 9, 2017. Rosatom TVEL’s Glazov-based asset, Chepetsk Mechanical Plant (ChMZ) introduced a scholarship program for the talented students of Ural Federal University with some support from Rosatom State Corporation, the company press service reports. The cooperation agreement was signed by the plant and the university during Rosatom Career Day in Yekaterinburg on November 7, 2017. The paper was signed by Chepetsk Mechanical Plant’s Director-General Denis Anischuk and Executive Director of Ural Federal University Development Fund Daniil Sandler. The ceremony was also

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 9, 2017. Yekaterinburg-based home owners owned the state RUR 525m in unpaid property tax as of October 1, 2017, Deputy Head of Yekaterinburg Council for Strategic Planning, Economics, & Finances Andrei Koryukov announced at a press conference today. ‘This is a very tidy bit of money. Added to this are RUR 204m of unpaid land tax, which is RUR 69m less than at the start of the year. This decrease looks like a positive trend, but the problem remains. RUR 200m is enough to put up one new kindergarten or rebuild two existing ones,’ Koryukov said. According to