UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 6, 2018. Thousands of MegaFon Ural’s customers bought two smartphones for the price of one while the company’s special offer was running, thus making Xiaomi Redmi Note A5 February’s absolute mobile device market leader. Every one in three customers purchased this particular make at MegaFon’s outlet, the company press service reports. Locals of Yekaterinburg, Novouralsk, Perm, Tyumen, Surgut, Chelyabinsk, Novy Urengoy, and Nizhnevartovsk tended to buy more actively than others, so these cities topped the sales ratings. The majority of the purchases were made on

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 6, 2018. Two drones are now operating at Raspadskaya Coal Company’s Raspadskaya Mine, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s press service reports. The equipment is meant to enhance both the speediness and the safety of survey measurements and calculation precision. ‘A drone can take up to 500 photographs of any part of the mine in under thirty minutes. The photos will then be fed into a special software program that will create a 3D model of the relief in just one hour. This used to take up to two days before,’ the press service says. A quadcopter can do its aerial mapping at the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 6, 2018. Sverdlovsk Region’s residents signed 987 co-investment agreements in the building cooperative sector in January 2018, Rosreestr’s website states. In December 2017, the figure stood at 1,923 agreements. 13,863 agreements got signed in the Mid-Urals in the course of last year altogether, compared with 12,972 in 2016.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 6, 2018. Two Boeing 747 aircraft loaded with 160,000 kg of flowers from Belgium and the Netherlands arrived in Yekaterinburg in time for International Women’s Day, V.A. Sorokin Koltsovo Customs’ press service reports. According to the service, some of the flowers originally came from Spain, Kenia, Columbia, Thailand, Ecuador, Italy, and Ethiopia. Ecuador actually once again proved Yekaterinburg’s No.1 flower supplier this year. ‘These are the familiar roses, chrysanthemums, gerber daisies, and the exotic tropical samples. Before the flowers get to the stores, they

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 6, 2018. Russia’s Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev signed a decree to include Yekaterinburg-Chelyabinsk High-Speed Rail in the national road and rail planning scheme; the paper is now available on the official legal information portal. According to the scheme, the railroad link will connect Beloyarsky, Aramid, and Sysert in Sverdlovsk Region to Kasli, Sosnovsky, Kunashaksky, and Krasnoarmeysky in Chelyabinsk Region. The plan means Yekaterinburg-Passazhirskiy Station, Shartash Station, and Chelyabinsk Main Station will all have to get reconstructed. There will also