UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 15, 2017. EVRAZ Holding’s Kachkanar Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise (EVRAZ KGOK) won bronze in Sverdlovsk Oblast Job Safety & Production Standards Contest, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s corporate relations center reports. The contest got coordinated by Sverdlovsk Oblast’s Industry & Science Ministry. The winner’s certificate was signed by Governor Evgeny Kuivashev. KGOK keep working to reduce the number of accidents at work and to improve working conditions. The plant’s workers all have uniforms and personal protective gear and enjoy increasingly better

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 15, 2017. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) keeps expanding its branch network: a new branch for small and medium enterprises opened in Rostov-on-Don on November 9, 2017. This means the bank now operates two offices in the city, their press service reports. ‘This is a branch without a cash desk that only offers its services to SMEs. Our business customers can set up a settlement account here as well as sign an acquiring services agreement, put money into their deposit account, and order a company card. Our employees can also come to a

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, November 15, 2017. The management of Russian Copper Company met with the social activists Sergey Belogorkov and Vassily Moskovetz, who protest against the construction of Tominsky Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise in the area, the company press service reports. President of Russian Copper Company Vsevolod Levin, Vice President for Environmental & Industrial Safety Natalia Gonchar, and Vice President for Legal Issues, Corporate Relations, & Special Projects Oleg Medvedev attended the meeting on the investor company’s behalf. The two parties talked about all the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 15, 2017. Yekaterinburg’s industrial production index might decline by 5% next year, according to the city’s economic development forecast that was presented to Yekaterinburg Duma deputies on November 14. The report was made by Head of Yekaterinburg Council Economics Department Alexei Pryadeyin, who said the city’s IPI was expected to go up 7% in 2018 (compared with 11% growth between January and October 2017). Pryadeyin also admitted a number of industrial branches fared a bit worse this year than before. For one, the catering and cafe industry has been

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 15, 2017. Ural Airlines started operating flights from Zhukovsky International Airport in Moscow Oblast one year ago this month (the date was November 14, 2016), the air carrier’s press service reports. The first flight was operated from Zhukovsky to Osh, Kyrgyzstan; this was the first scheduled international flight on the airport’s timetable. Ural Airlines were the first air carrier to discover the new airport’s potential and to introduce several flights to large cities and capitals in the CIS member states; the airline kept adding more destinations to its