UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 12, 2018. A new-format post office will open in Yekaterinburg’s Akademicheskiy District on February 12, 2018, RSG-Akademicheskoye’s press service reports. Governor of Sverdlovsk Oblast Evgeny Kuivashev, Head of Yekaterinburg Council Alexander Yakob, Director of Russian Post Ural Dmitri Kisselev, and RSG-Akademicheskoye’s top managers will all attend the opening ceremony at 3 PM. ‘This is a post office that gets reopened in the city’s newest district, with Russian Post buying the place with its own funds. This is also the first new-format post office in town that

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 12, 2018. EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK) is reopening the canteen at its Metallurgical Equipment Repair Department 3 after remodeling, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Relations Center reports. EVRAZ NTMK and EVRAZ KGOK Managing Director Alexei Kushnarev, the plant’s Chair of Trade Union Vladimir Radayev, and representatives of the plant’s caterer CorpusGroup all attended the solemn opening ceremony. ‘All the rooms and engineering infrastructure at the canteen have been repaired. The dining area now has new furniture, the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 12, 2018. MegaFon is offering Sverdlovsk Oblast-based customers a great deal on Xiaomi Redmi Note 5A smartphones, the company press service reports. You can now buy two units for only RUR 9,990 at MegaFon stores if you also put a certain amount in your mobile phone account as well. ‘The special-offer purchase of the two smartphones will come cheaper than the options available through the popular Chinese online shops. The smartphones can prove a great St. Valentine’s Day gift, or a special treat for Defender of the Fatherland’s Day or International Women’s Day,’

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 12, 2018. 367 businesses were sold in Yekaterinburg last year, which exceeded the figures for one year earlier by 29.7%, Avito’s research findings indicate. The average selling price stood at RUR 725,300, which was 35.2% below the country’s average. ‘Yekaterinburg was the country’s No.5 among all cities with population over 1m people in terms of the number of companies sold, and No.6 in terms of a company’s average selling price. In 2017, the demand for ready businesses rose on the national scale, with 14.1% more companies sold through Avito in 2017 than in 2016

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, February 12, 2018. 120,266 people left Sverdlovsk Oblast last year and 120,480 people arrived in the constituency, Sverdlovskstat reports. This means the migration-caused increase in population was 214 people (compared with 326 people in 2016). 44,137 people left Sverdlovsk Oblast for Russia’s other federal constituencies, with 40,771 people arriving in Sverdlovsk Oblast from other parts of the country. This means the interregional migration-caused decrease in population was 3,366 people (compared with 5,490 people in 2016). 4,464 foreign nationals left Sverdlovsk Oblast