UrBC, Magnitogorsk, December 28, 2017. An employee conference was held at Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) today to adopt the Collective Agreement for the years 2018-2020 between the company management and the workers, MMK press service reports. MMK Director-General Pavel Shilyayev presented his report on the plant’s production and social performance during the conference and also spoke about the company’s development strategy, environmental policy, and current CSR programs. Interestingly, Forbes magazine declared MMK Russia’s best employer in October 2017. There were actually four

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 28, 2017. A new project was embarked upon at EVRAZ Holding’s Evrazruda’s Abagurskaya Processing Plant to boost the grinding department’s productivity, the holding’s press service reports. Four grinding mills will get replaced with the more efficient ones, and a new, fifth mill will be added. The assembly and startup jobs will all be finished in the summer of 2018. The project’s overall cost is estimated at RUR 140m. These upgrades are expected to increase primary concentrate output by 200,000,000 kg a year (up to 6,500,000,000 kg altogether). Abagurskaya

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 28, 2017. Krasnodar Territory-based Bazel Aero airports named their best partners throughout the summer 2017. Ural Airlines won awards in two different categories, the air carrier’s press service reports. Ural Airlines won as the Company with Best Domestic Passenger Traffic Dynamics in Krasnodar Airport and also was awarded for Contributing to International Flights Development in Sochi Airport. Bazel Aero’s punctuality and service quality ratings have been carried on a a yearly basis since 2015; the goal is to distinguish the most punctual and the most

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, December 28, 2017. ChTPZ Group shareholder Andrei Komarov is now a member of Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory’s board of trustees and recently attended the board meeting for the first time, the Group’s press service reports. ‘ChTPZ Group and Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory have been collaborating for a few years now. The company supports the conservatory’s Opera House. Last year, its musicians opened the Group’s annual Snezhnost Children’s Charity Festival and performed Classics for Children, a special musical program for younger spectators. By joining the board,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 28, 2017. The exhibition’s coordinating committee received its first application/proposal to design EXPO Park in Yekaterinburg, Sverdlovsk Oblast’s Information Policy Department reports. The names of the applicants haven’t been disclosed yet. They have until February 21, 2018 to complete the project proposal itself. The selection procedure for EXPO Park concept proposals opened on December 22, 2017. Local architects, designers, and builders were all invited to take part. The coordinating committee will consider all proposals submitted before January 21, 2018. The