UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 4, 2017. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) Group made more than RUR 1bn in profits (calculated in accordance with the International Accounting Standards) in the nine months of 2017, the Group’s press service reports. ‘The Group’s consolidated profit amounted to RUR 1.051bn in the three quarters of the year, including a one-time RUR 553 transaction (excluding which, the bank’s profits rose by 18.9% compared with one year previously). All factors considered, the bank’s profit increased nearly five times by the end of the third quarter

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, December 4, 2017. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Metallurg Charity Fund coordinated Talantika, a special event for children with disabilities, the company Information, PR & Advertising Department reports. Over thirty families with special-needs children were invited to come to Talantika Jobs Town. ‘Talantika is a leisure club and a play area that looks like a stylized urban space with its own bank, an employment agency, a fire brigade, and an art school. The town has spaces dedicated to jobs in the creative, technical, sports, and service sectors. The

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, December 4, 2017. Children are learning to play chess at Magnitogorsk schools and kindergartens thanks to support from Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK), the company PR, Information & Advertising Department reports. ‘An agreement between MMK and the town council resulted in a three-year plan to include local schools and kindergartens in this education project. Forty-five kindergartens and twenty schools are already participating in the program,’ says Head of Magnitogorsk Education Department Natalya Safonova. MMK helped the schools buy chess boards and pieces

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 4, 2017. Yekaterinburg’s largest skating rink located on an open-air pond opens in Akademicheskiy District on December 1, 2017, RSG-Akademicheskoye’s press service reports. The skating rink can be found on Preobrazhensky Pond next to a church. This year, there will be an adults’ area with a 500-meter rink and a children’s skating area with a 100-meter rink. Skaters’ clubs will practice on the rink in daytime, whereas evenings are reserved for all the local public and visitors from other parts of the city. For one, world skating champion Andrei Bobrov will offer

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 4, 2017. Korkino Employment Service, Korkino Council, and Russian Copper Company Group are holding a large-scale job fair on December 2, 2017, the company’s press service reports. The job fair will be held at Korkino’s Gornyak Culture Palace from 11 AM to 4 PM. Several stands will feature over 1,700 job openings presented by the Group and its contractors. The Group’s Tominsky Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise and Promrekultivatsia will also offer their vacancys there. The fair will interest blue-collar workers, engineers, cost control experts, managers, and