UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 19, 2018. Ural Airlines are offering a new Moscow-Tyumen-Moscow flight starting February 18, 2018, the air carrier’s press service reports. The Moscow flights will be operated at 8AM every day (arrival in Moscow: 9 AM), which means business travelers can enjoy a full working day ahead of them. ‘Besides, you can always combine business and pleasure and take a tour of Moscow’s landmarks after your business meetings as well as see a theater performance, go to a restaurant or a cafe, or take a walk along Old Arbat. Even after some sightseeing, travelers will still

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 19, 2018. Sinara Group’s Sinara Development finished its 11th apartment building in Novy Svet District in Volgograd, the Group’s press service reports. The commissioning permit for the building was obtained on December 22, 2017. The new home owners will start collecting their keys on January 20. The 16-storey building has 171 apartments and three offices. There are only 25 apartments still left on offer. ‘Novy Svet is a fully developed residential area with extensive infrastructure. There are mini markets, pharmacies, beauty parlors, and much else besides on the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 19, 2018. ChTPZ Group (with some support from Roshelf) learned to make large-diameter casing pipes with weld-on connectors for offshore wells, the Group’s press service reports. This is the first time this type of piping has been manufactured in Russia; prior to this, all the units got imported from abroad. The Russian product is based on electric-welded pipes (diameter: 508-914 mm; layer thickness: 15.9-38.1 mm) made from Х52-Х60 steel produced by Chelyabinsk Pipe Rolling Plant (ChTPZ) Vysota 239 Department. Rosshelf, Oil States’ official representative in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 19, 2018. Russian Copper Company’s Karabashmed produced 7% more crude copper in 2017 than one year previously, the company press service reports. The plant produced around 120,000,000 kg of metal in the course of last year, setting a production record. This was possible due to large-scale facilities upgrades and production developments. In 2004-2017, Russian Copper Company invested some RUR 18bn in Karabashmed’s upgrades and in reducing the plant’s environmental impact. ‘The launch of the new automated crude copper-pouring line was also a positive factor for the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, January 19, 2018. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development’s ATMs now both accept and give out new 200-ruble and 2,000-ruble bills, the bank’s press service reports. The new banknotes currently get accepted by a half of all cash machines located in Sverdlovsk, Saratov, Novosibirsk, Orenburg, and Kirov Oblasts and in Bashkiria, Udmurtia, and Perm Territory. The bank intends to tune in the other 50% of the ATMs before the end of January so that new bills get accepted by each and every one of its machines in the constituencies where the UBRD operates. You can get