UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 27, 2018. Yekaterinburg came second in the rating of top ten Russian cities in terms of new car sales in January-February 2018, Avtostat’s analysts report. 2,840 new automobiles got bought in the city in the first two months of the year. The only location with better sales was Kazan, where 3,000 new cars were sold. Samara comes third in the rating (2,360 units), followed by Nizhniy Novgorod (2,280), and Krasnodar (2,100). Krasnodar happens to be the only city with population under 1m people on this list. Moscow and Saint Petersburg were not featured in this rating,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 27, 2018. The Forbes magazine recently carried its rating of Russia’s one hundred most reliable banks for the year 2018; SKB-Bank was among the banks included, the bank’s press service reports. The rating was based on the data supplied by international and national rating agencies and the banks’ financial performance indicators. Banks got selected along the following criteria: an assigned rating (and the overall number thereof), asset volume starting from RUR 10bn, and private individuals’ deposits amounting to over 3% of the bank’s liabilities. According to Forbes

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 27, 2018. EVRAZ Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK) made over 1,300,000 kg of H beams suitable for making metal structures in 2017; these will be used for building the necessary infrastructure for Amur Gas Processing Plant, and the supply of beams onto the plant will continue this year as well. According to EVRAZ Holding’s press service, the plant made H beams in nineteen different types for Russia’s largest natural gas processing plant. Some of the beams are made from low-allowed Steel 345. EVRAZ NTMK’s product range currently comprises more than

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 27, 2018. Internet traffic doubled against the usual Saturday amount in downtown Yekaterinburg early in the morning on March 24, 2018, MegaFon’s press service reports. ‘The city’s TV tower turned into the most coveted photo shooting spot and a filming location: shots of how the workers prepared to demolish the tower and how they had it pulled down, and videos of the end result filled all social networks and messengers,’ the press service says. Not only Yekaterinburg residents but also people from Sverdlovsk Region’s smaller towns such as Sukhoi Log, Berezovsky,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, March 26, 2018. Ural Airlines switched to summer schedule on March 25, 2018; this schedule will apply through October 27, 2018, the air carrier’s press service reports. This summer, Ural Airlines came up with convenient travel connections across Russia as well as in the CIS member states and the rest of the world. Most of the usual summer flights will be operated as usual, and more flights will be introduced for the most popular destinations. There will be plenty of flights to Simferopol operated from Saint Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Rostov-on-Don, Krasnoyarsk, Samara,