UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 5, 2017. Two-thirds of mobile Internet connection users search for info on goods they would like to buy using their smartphones, the telecommunications provider MegaFon’s press service says. MegaFon Ural’s subscribers mostly use their smartphones to look up information on clothes, footwear, and household appliances. Online cosmetics shops are particularly popular in Tyumen and Kurgan, furniture stores have the greatest number of online customers in Yekaterinburg and Syktyvkar, while the most popular items bought online in Chelyabinsk/Izhevsk and Surgut are sports

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 5, 2017. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development’s Saint Petersburg subsidiary signed a 350-million-ruble credit line agreement with Nevsky Mazut. According to the bank’s press service, the CL will be there for two years. The borrowed funds will be used to back up the company’s pre-export financing needs. Head of the UBRD Saint Petersburg subsidiary Alexander Kazanskiy says Nevsky Mazut is one of Saint Petersburg’s largest businesses in the fuel supply sector. ‘Supplying fuel, including furnace oil, is a big part of the national exports. Our exporters

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, December 5, 2017. Several groups of industrial workers from different countries underwent training courses at MMK Group’s Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works Personnel Training Center, the company press service reports. Two groups of Chinese metallurgists from SHANDONG IRON & Steel GROUP RIZHAO Co.,Ltd. went through their respective workshops. Their additional professional development program on MMK Automobile Body Sheet Manufacturing aims to educate the students about the plant’s hot-dip galvanizing facility and its continuous annealing aggregate. ‘When covering

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 5, 2017. Yekaterinburg proved to be among five least expensive locations to stay in for visitors coming for the World Football Championship of 2018, the Russian accommodation renting service tvil.ru refers to its research findings as indicating. The rating was based on an analysis of rental prices for tourists in 2017. Saransk will be the cheapest place to stay (RUR 1,540 a night on average), followed by Volgograd (RUR 1,718), and Rostov-on-Don (RUR 1,954). Yekaterinburg comes fourth, with the average price of a hotel/hostel stay at RUR 2,396 a night. Nizhniy

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 5, 2017. The international Topstewardess 2017 Contest was held in Moscow on December 1, 2017; Ural Airlines’ flight attendant Ekaterina Stolyarova got crowned as one of the top three finalists, the air carrier’s press service reports. Stolyarova made it through several rounds and two months’ preparation and got selected along eighteen other finalists from among nearly a thousand contestants. She coped with all the competition challenges and made a presentation about her life story, closely connected to that of Ural Airlines. ‘I am proud to be representing my