UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 28, 2018. EVRAZ Holding Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK) recently held a series of professional skills contests. Over two hundred employees competed for Best Young Worker Award, the company press service says. The contests were coordinated among repair technicians, crane operators, truck drivers, turners, assistant locomotive drivers, and rollers. Also, a contest was held among steel-smelting operators for the first time this year. The contestants had to deal with a series of tests first and do a practical task next. For one, rollers had to

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 28, 2018. Alumni of ChelPipe Group’s Future of White-Coated Metallurgy Corporate Training Program took part in the reservist training at the regiment in Gorny Shchit, Sverdlovsk Region, the company press service reports. They did some line training and physical drills and learned the basics of operating weapons and using individual protective gear. ‘Our alumni and students serving their army terms near to where they live helps them keep in touch with their home town and the company they worked at as interns. As a result, one hundred percent of our training program’s

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, April 28, 2018. MMK Group came third in Ural Exporter 100, the annual rating of the Urals and Siberia’s largest exporters carried by Expert Analytical Center, MMK Information, PR & Advertising Department reports. The rating presents the exporters operating in the Urals and Western Siberia in the second half of 2017. There are one hundred major companies features in the rating, as well as top fifty subsidiaries of nationwide businesses. MMK Group, whose exports amounted to over USD 1.8bn last year, came third in the Ural Exporter 100 rating, which is the best position

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 28, 2018. Yekaterinburg Customs made RUR 7bn in federal budget payments in the first quarter of the year, which exceeded the figures for one year earlier by 1.6 times. ‘1,234 foreign economic activity agents were involved in export/import transactions in January-March 2018, compared with 1,079 agents in the first quarter of 2017. The agents submitted 20,500 cargo manifests (compared with 17,600 one year earlier), including 7,500 import ones and 13,000 export ones,’ the Customs report. All kinds of trading turnover indicators grew against one year earlier: the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 28, 2018. Sverdlovsk Region-based businesses paid RUR 69.6bn in taxes to the federal budget in the first quarter of 2018, which was RUR 10bn, or 16.7%, more than one year previously, the local division of Russia’s Federal Tax Service reports. The business in question are in the processing industry, wholesale and retail trade sector, transportation and storage industry, finance and insurance, real estate, science and technology, and the sector for the production and distribution of electric power, natural gas, and steam. The increase in tax payments proved most

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 27, 2018. According to the Central Bank, the number of credit/debit card transactions rose by nearly 30% in Russia last year alone, with the overall transaction amount at RUR 41.8 trillion. The banking market experts are positive the growing POS terminal infrastructure is one key factor in this. URBD analysts agree: the bank’s statistical data indicate that the number of their acquiring terminals rose by 21% in the course of one year. It is preliminarily estimated that the overall number will increase by another 25% by the end of this year. According to the Ural

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 27, 2018. Ural Airlines are offering their customers reduced-price tickets for Yekaterinburg-Moscow-Yekaterinburg flights, the air carrier’s press service reports. ‘Special prices apply on April 25-June 10, 2018, for flights to be operated between May 1 and June 10, 2018; all fees included; price quotations are for round trips,’ the press service says. You can now book your Yekaterinburg-Moscow (Sheremetyevo)-Yekaterinburg flight for as little as RUR 5,000 and your Yekaterinburg-Moscow (Domodedovo)-Yekaterinburg one for RUR 6,000. ‘The airline started operating

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 27, 2018. The asking price of a Yekaterinburg-based business ready for sale came to RUR 3.729m on average on avito.ru in January-March 2018; this is 12% less than in the previous quarter yet 19% more than one year previously. ‘In terms of price of ready businesses advertised through Avito, Yekaterinburg comes sixth among the locations with populations over one million people. The average asking price is 9% above the country’s average (RUR 3.429) and 19% below the country’s top asking price (RUR 4.634m in Rostov-on-Don),’ the company press service reports.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 27, 2018. Sverdlovsk Region came fifth in the rating of forty Russian constituencies in terms of the number of newly issued credit cards, the National Credit History Bureau reports. Sverdlovsk Region’s number of newly issued credit cards came to 61,784 in the first quarter of the year, which is 81.8% more than one year previously (33,900 cards). In Russia on the whole, the increase was most pronounced in Orenburg Region (+126.2%), Tula Region (+115.6%), Bashkortostan (+112.7%), Saratov Region (+110.3%), Volgograd Region (+99.6%), and Yaroslavl Region (+97.4%). As

UrBC, Moscow, April 27, 2018. Russian Audit Chamber detected 2,178 problems related to Federal Act 44 FZ government purchase procedures last year, the chamber’s press service reports. These inaccuracies amounted to RUR 104.6bn all in all, compared with 823 cases amounting to RUR 48.8bn one year earlier. ‘The increase in the number of problems and violations has to do with our completion of a methodology base for auditing government purchases, with more inspections and checks carried out in 2017, with more organizations checked in 2017 than in 2016, and with a greater degree of information

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 26, 2018. EVRAZ Holding is coordinating its fifth annual Safety Week at the company’s Ural and Siberian enterprises on April 16-22, 2018, EVRAZ Holding Siberia’s Corporate Relations Center reports. EVRAZ Holding Ural’s and EVRAZ Holding Siberia’s job and industrial safety champions received thank-you letters from the company president Alexander Frolov in recognition of their contribution to the company’s safety culture growth. EVRAZ West-Siberian Integrated Metallurgical Works and Raspadskaya Coal Company coordinated a special I Choose Safety event, where employees

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, April 26, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) is going to host a constituency-level Best Job Safety Social Partnership Project Contest, MMK Information, PR & Advertising Department reports. Among the contestants are teams from Chelyabinsk Region’s ore mining and metallurgical enterprises and organizations that have a trade union that is a member of Russia’s Mining & Metallurgical Trade Union Association. There must be a job safety expert and a trade union representative for job safety on the team. There will be four rounds to this contest:

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 26, 2018. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development and its partner developers came up with a special offer for new and existing homes: a mortgage at 8.9% a year; the offer holds through the end of the year, the bank’s press service reports. ‘Declining interest rates are expected to boost home-buying with borrowed funds. According to Dom.rf, the average annual interest rate on a mortgage for new and existing homes came to 9.58% and 9.83%, respectively, in the first quarter of the year (compared with 11.61% and 12.11% a year earlier). Thanks to its expansive

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 26, 2018. The design documentation has been prepared for a set of medical facilities and Ural State Medical University campus in Yekaterinburg’s District Akademicheskiy; the documents have been worked on by the local developer RSG-Akademicheskoye (KORTROS) in cooperation with the university experts. ‘The concept is to ensure the ongoing unity of education, medical treatment, and scientific research. The campus will comprise teaching/training blocks, USMU E-University facility, a simulation/accreditation center, a research block, a diagnostics center, a university

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 26, 2018. MegaFon’s engineers took steps to improve the mobile and Internet connection quality in Yekaterinburg’s key traffic hubs based on the locals’ travel preferences, the telecommunications provider’s press service says. ‘Krasnodar Territory, Turkey, and one’s own dacha are going to be the three top May break destinations for Russians in the coming month, Rambler researchers’ findings and the Association of Tour Operators’ data indicate. Given the locals’ expected travel choices, MegaFon improved connection quality through telecom upgrades at key Yekaterinburg

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 25, 2018. KamAZ Master’s pilot Anton Shibalov will be available for a Q&A session at Yekaterinburg’s Greenwich Mall on April 27. Additionally, the legendary Dakar Rally KamAZ will be on display at the mall for just one day; anyone can take a picture, Obschestvo Malysheva 73’s press service reports. ‘KamAZ Master is the star of the racing sports, the fifteen-times Dakar Rally winner, and the strongest team in the sports truck category. The team was set up in 1988 and celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. Anton Shibalov is an international-level sports

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 25, 2018. MegaFon Ural’s mobile traffic increased by 1.5 times against the usual due to a heavy snowfall, the company press service reports. ‘While a drastic change in the weather is a big thing for the locals, this is ‘business as usual’ for our infrastructure engineers: MegaFon’s connection has proved reliable in numerous heavy snowfalls, spring floods, and summer heat waves before. You can safely expect to stay connected, be able to call a rescue team, or keep sending pictures of the surroundings when it’s anywhere between fifty degrees centigrade above or forty

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 25, 2018. Ural Airlines won the Regional Development/The Best for Russia Prize in Transport & Logistics this year. ‘The forum and the awarding ceremony took place in Sochi last week. Ural Airlines won as the Best Regional Airline. Over fifty different companies attended the forum, as well as government officials and Russian business leaders,’ the air carrier’s press service says. The company has established itself as the primary air carrier for Sverdlovsk Region and now connects the constituency with the rest of Russia and destinations abroad, which helps build

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 25, 2018. Metcombank and Dom.rf signed a cooperation agreement, which means customers in any of the bank’s branches throughout the country will be able to apply for a preferential-terms mortgage, the bank’s press service reports. Dom.rf offers mortgages for existing homes and those under construction; you can also apply for mortgage refinancing (with a new, better interest rate) and apply for a consumer loan with your home as security. ‘The new options make a mortgage more affordable for our customers. Thanks to special terms and moderate interest rates, those who

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, April 25, 2018. RSG-Akademicheskoye is holding a tender procedure to find a reliable contractor for a capital construction project; the tender in question relates to design and survey jobs, the management company’s press service reports. The task is to develop a design model for a multi-level highway junction in the intersection Serafima Deryabina St and Obyezdnaya St in Yekaterinburg (Construction Stage II). The lot is estimated at RUR 18,351,538. The bids can get submitted from April 24 to May 11, 2018. The results will be announced on May 25. The jobs need to be