UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 29, 2018. EVRAZ Holding’s West-Siberian Integrated Metallurgical Works (ZSMK) induced a fish protection device at its Beregovaya Pumping Station in Novokuznetsk. The unit is meant to prevent the younger fish from dying next to Zapadno-Sibirskaya Power Station on the Tom, the company press service reports. ‘The electronic fish protection system creates a high-voltage field that wards off the fish and thus prevents the smaller, younger specimens from getting trapped in the intake chamber. The unit’s efficiency meets all the environmental requirements and the Russian

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 29, 2018. Some 100,000 people have visited Yekaterinburg during the first two weeks of the world football championship games, Sverdlovsk Region’s Information Policy Department refers to the constituency’s Governor as stating. ‘We have footballers, supporters, reporters, and tourists from all over the world coming here: according to our preliminary estimates, these are around 100,000 people altogether. They have thus seen a city located on the Europe/Asia border and got to know this unique territory, known for its industrial, scientific, intellectual, cultural, and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 29, 2018. EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK) made and supplied to United Shipbuilding Company’s two large enterprises (Shipyard Yantar in Kaliningrad and Zvezdochka in Severodvinsk) more than 8,000,000 kg of L5 UM Larssen sheet piles, EVRAZ press service reports. Shipyard Yantar used EVRAZ NTMK’s piles to reinforce the banks for Building Berth 5. The piles had to be a customized length ones and had to be made from C320 strength grade steel. This was the first time the plant manufactured Larssen sheet piles from the required material.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 29, 2018. The social sector-oriented hackathon Socialhack Ekb will be held at Yekaterinburg’s Universitetsky Tech Park on July 7-8, 2018; the event is open to school and college students and young professionals. The hackathon is meant to serve as a marathon/forum platform for teams of web developers who will work on a set of given IT problems non-stop. For Yekaterinburg, these would be apps for low-mobility citizens, open data processing, educational apps, and urban improvement solutions. ‘Digitalization is changing both the world at large and Russia in particular:

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 29, 2018. Yekaterinburg’s final world football championship game (Mexico vs. Sweden) at Yekaterinburg Arena set a mobile Internet traffic record, MegaFon’s press service reports. People present at the stadium downloaded over 1m Mb of MegaFon’s online traffic during the match — twice as much as during any other of the three World Cup games held in Yekaterinburg. The traffic figures peaked dramatically at 8 PM, after Mexico’s team scored and the country's supporters started going online and paying particularly close attention to the Germany-South Korea game, as

UrBC, Moscow, June 28, 2019. Russia’s Sberbank recently introduced a special deposit type that mentions the World Football Championship 2018; the mention had never been coordinated with the FIFA, Vedomosti refers to its own sources as stating. The morning after Russia’s national team beat Saudi Arabia 5:0 in the very first World Cup game, Sberbank launched its special Win Deposit with an increased interest rate and promised in its press release on June 15 that the deposit would remain on offer if and for as long as the Russian team makes it to the play off and stays in the game. ‘Sberbank

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, June 28, 2019. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works’ Uralskiye Zori Children’s Health Camp recently hosted the local festival lab Theater Territory as part of its Children’s Hit Project, the plant’s press service reports. The festival was supported by Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) and Magnitogorsk Council. The opening ceremony included a welcome address by director of Chelyabinsk Region Children’s Extracurricular Training Center Irina Skalunova, a series of introductory presentations, and welcoming words from the event coordinators Anna Vokhmyanina and Oleg

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 28, 2019. EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK) coordinated NTMK Best Young Team Contest and Youth Award Contest this month, the plant’s press service reports. ‘Five teams of young professionals won the NTMK Best Young Team Prize in the first half of the year: the plant’s blast furnace repair and maintenance team; the team from Converter Shop Mechanics’ Section 37; the blast furnace central electro lab; Team 3 from the wheel-band department; and Team 4 from the steel foundry department’s vanadium slag grinding section,’ the press service

UrBC, Moscow, June 28, 2019. Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev asked the Economic Development Ministry to develop a set of measures in response to U.S. import tariffs, Prime reports. ‘The U.S. authorities decided to impose enhanced import tariffs on certain items coming from an impressively large number of countries. These measures are clearly discriminatory in nature and have to get reacted to. The EU member states and China have responded already, so we need to think of counter steps as well. I am asking the Economic Development Ministry to come up with their proposals,’ Medvedev said

UrBC, Moscow, June 28, 2019. The federal authorities are no longer working on the draft bill regarding allowing supermarkets to sell over-the-counter drugs, Kommersant refers to the Russian Government’s Social Development Department’s letter to a number of ministries as stating. The decision to not go through with the idea is believed to be related with the recent changes in the Cabinet. The draft bill was initially proposed by First Vice Premier Igor Shuvalov, who became head of Vnesheconombank (VEB) at the end of May. Besides, former Health Minister Tatiana Golikova re-joined the Cabinet as

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 27, 2018. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) keeps improving its e-banking and m-banking services, the bank’s press service reports. Starting June 25, 2018, Android smartphone users will be able to log into their mobile banking apps using the fingerprint identification option; no password will be necessary. To start using this option, you need to get your app updated through Google Play, then log into the app and tap ‘I Agree’ on the fingerprint identification pop-up window. The number of UBRD mobile banking app’s users rose by 22% against the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 27, 2018. Volunteers from Gorod Pervykh, a Pervouralsk-based NGO, coordinated a green rafting session along the River Chusovaya. The twelve-kilometer-long raft involved cleaning up ten camping sites located on the shores, ChelPipe Group’s Pervouralsk branch reports. Gorod Pervykh was recently set up at the Group’s initiative in Pervouralsk. The volunteer organization focuses on the city’s environmental problems and tries to draw the general public’s attention to environmental protection issues. The green rafters collected over thirty bags of trash, all of which will

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 27, 2018. MegaFon’s engineers set up a virtual private network on the basis of their fiber optic channels for he air dispatchers operating in the Urals and the Volga Region, the telecommunications provider’s press service reports. Air traffic control towers based in Yekaterinburg, Chelyabinsk, Magnitogorsk, Syktyvkar, Kurgan, and Izhevsk are now connected through a protected channel. The VPN ensures secure online transfer of data related to all aerial activity in the Ural Air Navigation sector. Ural Air Navigation (a member enterprise of State ATM Corporation Federal

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, June 27, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) coordinates its third Fresh Idea Day in Magnitogorsk’s Komsomolskaya Square on June 29. The goal is to encourage the plant workers to submit their improvement proposals, the company press service reports. The event takes of at 10 AM. The square in front of the main office will serve as a venue where MMK Group’s employees will be able to present their innovative ideas and get a special gift. This year, pomegranates were chosen as the symbol of the day: everyone who submits a proposal will be given one. Additionally,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 27, 2018. Federal Grid Company Untied Energy Systems set up new electric current transformers and relay protection appliances at its 500-kilowatt Kustovaya Power Station in Khanty-Mansiysky Autonomous District, the company’s Western Siberia division reports. The upgrades involve replacing six transformer units and eighteen 220-kilowatt high-frequency chokes and installation and startup of new cables and relay protection devices. ‘These upgrades will make our power supply to end users in Nizhnevartovsk and to the local oil and gas companies even more reliable,’ the

UrBC, Moscow, June 26, 2018. The ongoing increase in fuel prices on the Russian market has not affected the price of summer travel as yet, but winter trips are bound to grow at least 10% more expensive when the time comes, RIA Novosti refers to Counselor to Head of Rostourism Dmitri Gorin as stating. Russian Fuel Union (RTS) appealed to Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev in a letter, asking to ensure fair prices on the retail and wholesale fuel markets. The union believes this increase in the price of automobile and diesel fuel is unprecedented. RTS commented unfavorably on the regulatory

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, June 26, 2018. ChelPipe Group can now make large-diameter pipes from the innovative, cold-resistant K60 stripes supplied by Severstal, the Group’s press service reports. Vysota 239, a hi tech department at the Group’s Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant, made 1,200,000 kg of pipes (diameter: 720 mm and 1,020 mm; layer thickness: 19.3 mm and 27.3 mm) made from stripes manufactured at Severstal’s Mill 5000 Sheet-Rolling Department in Kolpino. These rolled metal strips possess certain properties to ensure outstanding impact strength even in extremely low temperatures (as low as 42

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, June 26, 2018. MMK Group’s member enterprise MMK METIZ increased its share of the Russian market by 2% in 2017 against one year earlier (total sales: 352,000,000 kg); the news was announced at the general shareholder meeting recently, MMK press service reports. Additionally, the company exported 2.8% more goods last year compared with the year 2016. The country’s largest metal goods manufacturers (all members of metallurgical holdings) sold around 2,000,000,000 kg of goods last year, which is comparable with the figures for the year 2016. The share of MMK METIZ amounted to

UrBC, Moscow, June 26, 2018. The number of respondents in a recent nationwide survey in Russia who do not believe the government will be able to provide them with a good enough pension comes to 78%, Superjob refers to its survey findings as indicating. Within those surveyed, the number of skeptical respondents who are male is greater than that of skeptical female respondents (81% and 75%, respectively). As for those who were hesitant to give a confident answer, the share of female respondents was greater here than that of male ones (16% and 9%, respectively). People seem to grow increasingly

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 26, 2018. The prime cost of agricultural produce is likely to go up by 20% to 25% due to rising fuel prices, head of Bitimsky Agricultural Cooperative Mikhail Maltsev told UrBC. According to Maltsev, the prime cost of processing agricultural raw stuffs and the cost of end user delivery will go up as well. ‘Gazpromneft upped the prices by 10% in the course of a couple of days (from RUR 47,000 per 1,000 kg to RUR 52,000, with no explanations whatsoever. Everyone in this industry is naturally indignant about the price increase,’ Maltsev said. He added certain subsidies