UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 11, 2017. EVRAZ Holding coordinated its usual Best Young Worker Contest this year, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Relations Center reports. ‘This year, the contestants competed at EVRAZ Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK) in nine different job categories: blast furnace keeper, furnace helper, mill roller, crane operator, maintenance technician, instrumentation and automated control systems technician, assistant locomotive operator, turner, and driver. The theoretical part of the contest included a number of questions relating to people’s

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 11, 2017. The telecommunications provider MegaFon’s bank card is now eight times more popular in the Urals than at the beginning of the year, with overall turnover at over RUR 300m a month. Locals most typically use the card to pay for their supermarket shopping and to cover restaurant checks, the company press service reports. While food items are on top of the list, gasoline, medicines, mobile devices, car parts, household/remodeling appliances, clothes, taxi rides, and entertainment are also often paid for with MegaFon cards. Taxi fares come the cheapest,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 11, 2017. Metcombank came second in the rating of Russia’s most efficient banks in the three quarters of 2017 according to Kommersant, the bank’s press service reports. The rating was based on the ratio of profits in the first three quarters of the year to the average asset volume in the same year; the rating only touched upon the banks that were among the country’s top hundred as of July 1, 2017. Metcombank actually came 11th in the rating last year. The bank also came 25th in the rating of Russia’s Top 30 most profitable banks, based on its ratio of profits in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 11, 2017. Members of Yekaterinburg Civic Chamber went on a tour of Central Stadium which is currently being reconstructed in time for the World Cup 2018 by Sinara Development, Sinara Group’s PR Center reports. Head of the stadium reconstruction project Sergey Grekhov told the visitors about their progress and the peculiar parameters of the building. Yekaterinburg Arena is now 98% complete, with workers busy finishing the rooms under the spectator stands and introducing navigation signs. All the jobs that are part of the developer’s state contract will have been

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 11, 2017. ChTPZ Group’s Future of White Metallurgy Corporate Training Program won the first prize in the National Professional Qualifications Development Agency’s Best Blue-Collar Job Training Practices 2017 Contest (category: We Are Partners). According to the company press service, the awarding ceremony took place during the 3d All-Russian National Professional Qualifications System Forum in Moscow; the forum is coordinated with support from the Presidential National Council for Professional Qualifications. ‘ChTPZ Group created the public-private cadre training