UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 23, 2017. Managers of Russian Copper Company won Sverdlovsk Oblast Awards for their contribution to the area’s socioeconomic development, the company press service reports. The solemn awarding ceremony for Russian Federation Awards, Russia’s President Awards, and Sverdlovsk Oblast Awards took place in Yekaterinburg on November 21, 2017. Thirty-nine representatives of the Urals’ business community, medical and educational establishments, charity organizations, culture organizations, and financial entities were on the list of awardees. Russian Copper Company

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, November 23, 2017. The telecommunications provider MegaFon’s engineers launched second- and third-generation HD Voice technology in Sverdlovsk Oblast. HD Voice allows for better transfer of a particular speaker’s voice, their tone and intonation, as the available frequency range now comes to as much as 7,000 Herz. Thanks to this expanded audio transfer channel, the sound comes out more realistic and ‘live’, MegaFon’s press service reports. HD Voice is supported by most smartphones and turns on automatically. You can enjoy better conversation quality with both MegaFon

UrBC, Orsk, November 23, 2017. Russian Copper Company’s Orenburg Oblast-based asset ORMET completed the construction of Dzhusinsky underground mine by 90% so far. According to Russian Copper Company’s press service, the only jobs left to do before the commissioning are assembling the outer electric grids and doing the startup routines for all the facilities. These are the tasks the workers will concentrate on in the next one and a half months. Dzhusinsky is being put up in place of Dzhusinsky sulphide poly-metallic ore deposit in Adamovsky District, Orenburg Oblast. The deposit was an

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, November 23, 2017. Director of First Freight Company’s Chelyabinsk subsidiary Vladimir Terekhov came up with a performance report for the ten months of 2017, the company press service reports. Terekhov pointed out that they managed to cut down the idle time of their railcars by 73% (down to 243 units) this year thanks to more efficient collaboration with other players in the freight forwarding business. ‘A railcar turnover is the primary indicator of how efficiently a company’s rolling stock gets used, so increasing these turnover figures is key to obtaining some extra

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, November 23, 2017. ChTPZ Group is going to hold its 15th Snezhnost Theater Festival on December 8-19, the company press service reports. This year, plays will be performed in Chelyabinsk, Pervouralsk, Almetyevsk, and — for the first time — Ozersk, Chelyabinsk Oblast. This charity project takes off at M.I. Glinka Chelyabinsk State Academic Opera & Ballet Theater with a family musical called Look At Me Flying! Young performers from the children’s musical school, directed by Russia’s Honored Performer Boris Kaplun and assisted by professional actors, will act out a musical