UrBC, Magnitogorsk, March 16, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) proved Russia’s largest manufacturer of coated rolled products once again in 2017, MMK Senior Manager for Coated Metal Sales Alexei Oleynik announced at the 13th International Zinc-Coated and Paint-Coated Rolled Goods Conference in Moscow. According to Oleynik, MMK sold 980,000,000 kg of zinc-coated products and 310,000,000 kg of goods with polymeric coating on the Russian market last year. This means the company’s share of the national galvanized goods market is now 31%, that of polymeric-coated goods market 15%.

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, March 16, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK)-sponsored Metallurg Charity Foundation came up with a performance report for the year 2017, MMK Information, PR & Advertising Department reports. The meeting dedicated to the representation of the report was attended by MMK Director-General and member of the foundation’s board of trustees Pavel Shilyayev, who spoke about the company’s primary achievements last year. ‘All our performance indicators improved in 2017 compared with the earlier periods. We made 12.9 tons of steel and 11.6m tons of metal goods and

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, March 16, 2018. ChelPipe Group delivered around 6,000,000 kg of large-diameter pipes to the Republic of Uzbekistan; the order was placed by Enter Engineering, one of Central Asia’s leading oil and gas companies, the Group’s press service reports. The LDPs (diameter: 1,020mm; layer thickness: 10mm) have a three-layer corrosion-resistant outer coating and are made from K52 steel. The pipes will be used to reconstruct existing pipelines in Uzbekistan. According to ChelPipe Group, the order had to be fulfilled on a short notice: the entire cycle from the order getting placed

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 16, 2018. Ural Airlines are launching their new Irkutsk-Harbin flight on May 23, 2018, the air carrier’s press service reports. Flight U6 789 will be operated every Wednesday and Sunday and is two hours and forty minutes long. Prices start from RUR 13,000 (one way) and RUR 26,000 (round trip). Prices quoted include all the fees and charges but are subject to change depending on the exchange rate fluctuations. ‘Harbin is beautiful any time of the year. In winter, the city is, as they say, a pearl decorating the Chinese crown of ice and snow, with its ice and snow

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 16, 2018. Ural Airlines’ customers can book their Moscow-Yekaterinburg flight for as little as RUR 2,000 (one way) on March 14-31, the air carrier’s press service reports. The offer holds for U6 273 flights (Moscow-Yekaterinburg, departure: 8:25 AM) and U6 271 ones (Moscow-Yekaterinburg, departure: 11:45 PM). The flights will be operated between March 14 and March 31, 2018. Tickets are already on offer. ‘Our passengers can benefit from their Moscow Subscription and arrange a travel plan comprising two, four, or eight flat-rate, open-date trips. The subscription is