UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 27, 2018. The developer RSG Akademicheskoye is coordinating a series of tender to design two kindergartens, the company press service reports. The first tender has to do with design and survey work for a kindergarten fit for 250 children in Quarter 26, Akademicheskiy District, Yekaterinburg. The pricing negotiations will begin at RUR 2,474,752. The second one has to do with a scheme design for a kindergarten fit for 200 children in Quarter 10, Akademicheskiy District, Yekaterinburg. The pricing negotiations will begin at RUR 1,083,126. Candidate companies can

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 28, 2018. Students on ChTPZ Group’s Future of White Metallurgy Corporate Training Program won a dozen medals in Sverdlovsk Oblast round of the 6th blue-collar job championship WorldSkills Russia, the company press service reports. First-year student Ignatiy Yevdokimov won gold in Industrial Mechanics & Assembly. Third-year student and Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant’s measuring and control appliances and automation technician Artem Ulyanov got a gold medal in Wiring. A third-year student on ChTPZ Group’s training program and Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant’s energy

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 28, 2018. Ural Airlines is offering a 30% discount on all flights to be operated between March 1 and May 31, 2018 (as long as you book before March 4 and fly back before June 9, 2018), the air carrier’s press service reports. The offer applies to the Black Sea resorts, European cities, and destinations in China and the CIS member states. For more information, please visit the comapny website uralairlines.com. ‘To save even more money on your flight, you are invited to join Ural Airlines’ Wings Club. You get a welcome bonus of RUR 1,000 when you sign up on the

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, February 28, 2018. MMK Group’s Shlakservis made 1.17m tons of metal-containing particles for Magnitogorsk Iron & Still Works (MMK), the Group’s Information, PR & Advertising Department reports. This production output of 2017 outstrips everything the plant has produced on an annual scale so far. The magnet particles get extracted from the byproducts supplied by the blast furnace, electric steel-smelting, and converter departments; Shlakservis supplies MMK with a ferrous stuff that brings down the cost of metallurgical production considerably, helps cut the plant’s

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 28, 2018. Yekaterinburg residents’ housing bills rose by 11.6% in 2017 compared with one year earlier, Yandex.Dengi states. In 2016, a monthly housing bill paid online amounted to RUR 2,910 on average. A year later, the figure rose by 11.6%, according to Yandex.Dengi’s data. All in all, locals’ everyday expenses increased by 1.5 times in the course of one year. In 2016, an average local spent RUR 83,000 a year on housing, telecommunication services, household appliances, and remodeling; in 2017, the figure was RUR 122,000.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 26, 2018. A Children’s Singing School opened within M.I. Glinka Chelyabinsk State Opera House with support from ChTPZ Group shareholder Andrei Komarov, the company press service reports. The singing school stems from the Children’s Musical School. The goal is to ensure the development of gifted young locals’ potential. ‘The children will learn signing, acting, choreography, and elocution with the help of experienced teachers, directors, choreographers, and musicians. The theater provided a special room to coordinate these classes. Students from Children’s Singing

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 27, 2018. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development’s business customers will now find it easier and cheaper to learn about the latest business management techniques and attend management gurus’ workshops, the bank’s press service reports. You can now sign up for businesspeople-oriented training programs at the bank’s branches in Yekaterinburg and Chelyabinsk. The training is coordinated by Business Education Center Group, a company that has dealt in management and employee training on the national scale since 1996. By signing up for the program through

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 27, 2018. EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK) received a thank-you letter and a memorial stele in recognition of its efforts to protect the environment and of its projects throughout the Year of The Environment in Russia/Year of Nature Reserves in Sverdlovsk Oblast,’ the holding’s press service reports. In 2017, EVRAZ NTMK had its dry coke-quenching plant upgraded, which reduced atmospheric emissions by 20%. This was part of the plant’s four-way agreement with Russia’s Ministry for Natural Resources & The Environment, Russia’s

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 27, 2018. MegaFon and Veon Ltd finalized settling their respective rights to Euroset, the Russian company’s press service reports. The two parties agreed to stop doing business together at Euroset in July 2017. ‘Following a series of transactions, MegaFon purchased a 50% stake in Euroset from VEON’s Russian subsidiary VympelKom (all assets and liabilities included), which means MegaFon now has 100% ownership of the business. VympelKom, in its turn, purchased a half of Euroset’s retail outlets (around 1,800 stores altogether) and is also going to pay out RUR

UrBC, Moscow, February 27, 2018. Plane tickets the football fans interested in flying to Russia during the days of the Wold Football Championship of 2018 are now 2.7 times more expensive than usual, RIA Novosti refers to the booking service OneTwoTrip as stating. ‘Two parameters were taken into account. First, we found the cheapest offers on flights from the participating countries’ capitals to Moscow two months before the championship opens (April 14) and next, we did the same for offers on the opening day (June 14). Whereas April prices came to RUR 29,470 on average for thirty different

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 26, 2018. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development’s male customers spent nearly RUR 10bn using their bank cards last year, which exceeded the figures for a year earlier by 21%, the bank’s press service reports. A look into the the transaction amounts and the number of thereof showed that this customer category made over 15m transactions using their UBRD cards in 2017, which is 36% more than one year earlier. Most of the money got spent in supermarkets and corner shops (RUR 4bn), remodeling supply stores (RUR 1bn), gas filling stations (RUR 986m),

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, February 26, 2018. ChTPZ Group took part in a press conference dedicated to the launch of a nationwide internship database; the launch is part of the All-Russia People’s Front’s Internships Program. head of ChTPZ Group’s Intern Section Natalia Sokolova spoke about the company’s efforts to coordinate internships at its production sites. ‘Candidates for our Intern Program undergo a highly competitive selection procedure. A successful candidate must do well in college, pass their exams successfully, possess outstanding knowledge of the fields they major in, have a broad range

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 26, 2018. Sverdlovsk Oblast’s division of the state-run consumer rights agency Rospotrebnadzor issued a total of RUR 9m in fines relating to anti-tobacco legislation offenses last year, the agency’s press service reports. Last year’s inspections helped detect 934 cases of anti-tobacco laws violation (including, among others, sale of tobacco products within 100 meters (or closer) of a school/college, smoking at workplaces and work areas inside a building, and sale of tobacco produce without a registered list of products on offer). The agency also tested 30,723

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 26, 2018. Gasoline grew 6% more expensive on average in Sverdlovsk Oblast in 2017 compared with 2016, Deputy Head of Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service’s local division and Head of Antitrust Enforcement Department Ekaterina Vorobieva said at a press conference in Yekaterinburg today. According to Vorobieva, fuel prices rose by 3.5% in Sverdlovsk Oblast in 2016. Last year, prices kept going up because of the excise duty growing larger, as well as because of inflation (2.5% in 2017), Vorobieva explained. This year and the next one, gas prices will keep on

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 26, 2018. Ural Airlines are now offering tickets for their Moscow-Novosibirsk-Moscow flights at a reduced price. The offer only applies to online bookings, the air carrier’s press service reports. If you book online, a ticket for your Moscow-Novosibirsk-Moscow flight will cost RUR 4,800 for Promo and RUR 5,800 for Economy options. The flight is operated up to eight times a week and is 3 hours and 55 minutes long. The offer holds from February 22 to April 25, 2018 for flights to be operated through April 25 (only if you buy on the company website

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 22, 2018. ChTPZ Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ) carried a performance report on its environmental activity; the report was presented to state-run environmental surveillance authorities. ‘PNTZ presented reports for the year 2017 on waste treatment, water-protection projects, and land reclamation programs, as well as data on soil, air, and water monitoring and on the plant’s green projects spending. All these have been transferred to Ural Federal District division of Rosprirodnadzor, Rosstat, Nizhne-Obsky Water Resources Department, and Sverdlovsk Oblast

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 22, 2018. RSG-Akademicheskoye is coordinating a tender to find designers and survey work experts for a school in Yekaterinburg’s Akademicheskiy District, the developer’s press service reports. The contract on offer is for design and survey work (a building information model) for a secondary school fit for 825 students in Quarter 10 of Akademicheskiy District in Yekaterinburg. The opening price bid is set at RUR 10,848,509 (18% VAT included); the entire work should be completed before February 2019 (the starting point being the date the contract gets signed).

UrBC, Moscow, February 22, 2018. Russia’s Economic Development Ministry drew up a report on the pricing policies for lifesaving and essential drugs, the list of which drugs has been recently proposed by the Health Ministry. The paper is available on the normative acts website. Under the Health Ministry’s bill, all lifesaving drugs need to get re-registered within Russia so that a fair price could be set for all of those. The fair price should be based on the price monitoring statistics available for the emergency drugs sold abroad. According to the Economic Development Ministry’s estimates,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 22, 2018. Kaluga Children’s Hospital received new equipment within the framework of SKB-Bank-supported Everyday Charity Project, the bank’s press service reports. The equipment (a computer-aided four-way thromboelastometer and a year’s supply of chemical reagents) got handed over to the clinic on February 20, 2018. Kaluga’s doctors can now test patients’ blood for platelet count very fast and with very high precision. Based on the test results, a doctor can make an informed decision about further treatment. The thromboelastometer and the reagents were purchased

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 22, 2018. Verkh-Isetsky Court of Yekaterinburg ruled that Svyaznoy Logistika must pay their customer RUR 144,000 for a bloated iPhone, Sverdlovsk Oblast Court’s press service reports. ‘A Yekaterinburg-based customer bought his Apple iPhone 7 128 Gb for RUR 55,490 at one of Svyaznoy Logistika outlets last June. In August, the smartphone got inflated and stopped charging when connected to a charger. As it was no longer fit to use, the customer took the phone back to the store to have it replaced or get a refund,’ the press service says. The store only agreed to