UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 17, 2017. Three hundred employees of EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK) and Kachkanar Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise (KGOK) took part in the young manager contest recently, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s corporate relations center reports. ‘Mikhail Kazakovtsev proved the best young manager at NTMK. He works at the plant’s technical administration and is in charge of rolling production technologies and the construction of a new ball-rolling mill. Yuri Syumkin won the first prize at KGOK. He has worked at the plant for three years,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 17, 2017. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) looked into its credit card holders’ spending behavior in July through October 2017, the bank’s press service reports. According to their findings, customers mostly use their credit cards to pay for food items (20%), clothes and footwear (14%), and building materials (9%), as well as to pay their housing bills or pay at beauty parlors and to taxi drivers and haulers. ‘This kind of spending seems in full harmony with the purpose people applying for credit cards state in their applications: an

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 17, 2017. Ural Airlines are now selling a number of tickets at reduced prices, the air carrier’s press service reports. According to the airline representatives, passengers can now book their flights at a price comparable with the cost of traveling by rail. ‘Just a few hours on board and a flexible timetable save your time and allow for very convenient planning,’ the press service says. On sale are tickets for flights from Yekaterinburg to Krasnoyarsk (prices start from RUR1,500), from Yekaterinburg to Saint Petersburg (prices start from RUR 3,500), from

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, November 17, 2017. A new Continuous Hot-Dip Galvanizing Unit 3 got launched at Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) in the summer, which meant the company could now supply more metal to carmakers, MMK Information, PR & Advertising Department refers to Anton Antonov from the plant’s Science & Technology Center as saying. According to Antonov, MMK is currently one of Russia’s leading automobile body sheet makers. The plant remains the market leader thanks to meeting its customers’ increasingly challenging sheet quality requirements. MMK metal enjoys demand with

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, November 17, 2017. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works’ MMK Trading House and its subsidiaries all won prizes in the all-Russian contests coordinated by the Russian Union of Metal and Steel Suppliers, MMK Information, PR & Advertising Department reports. The awarding ceremony took place during the fall Metal Week in Moscow. The Union holds three nationwide contests every year in July-October: Russia’s Best Metal Base, Russia’s Best Metal Center, and Russia’s Best Sales Network. 130 companies competed in the contests this year. ‘Russia’s Best Metal Base Contest got the