UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 14, 2018. Ural Airlines are selling reduced-price, government-subsidized plane tickets to fly from Moscow to Kaliningrad and back starting June 6, 2018. Additionally, flights from Saint Petersburg to Kaliningrad and back will grow less expensive starting September 1, 2018. Prices start from RUR 2,500, with a 25% discount for children. No extra fees get charged, luggage is included. You can only buy your subsidized tickets at a booking office if you produce evidence of being eligible for this offer. Bookings can be made over the phone +7-800-7700-262. Eligible for the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 14, 2018. Power engineers working at Federal Grid Company United Energy Systems’ Western Siberia division are already getting ready for the fall and winter, the company press service reports. ‘We do everything necessary to prepare for every next heating season on a regular basis. Checks, repair and maintenance, and equipment replacement occur throughout the entire year. Most of the jobs get done in the warmer seasons,’ the press service says. The company intends to direct more than RUR 1.7bn to repairs and upgrades this year.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 14, 2018. Representatives of Moscow Department of Education, WorldSkills Russia, and leading vocational schools came to see ChelPipe Group’s innovative production site in the Urals, the Group’s press service reports. Their guided tour covered a visit to the White-Coated Metallurgy department at the Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ) and the Group’s Training Center. The visitors also went to one of Russia’s most hi tech pipe-making facilities Iron Ozone 32 (an electric steel-smelting shop), and Finishing Center for making OCTGs. The Group’s Training Center

UrBC, Moscow, June 14, 2018. Yekaterinburg (Russia), Osaka (Japan), and Baku (Azerbaijan) are now entering the final round of competing for the privilege of hosting World EXPO 2025; the hosting country will be selected in November 2018. The decision was taken by the BIE during their 163d General Assembly in Paris, TASS reports. ‘The Assembly approved of the BIE Executive Committee’s recommendations for all the three applications the committee deemed ‘viable and compliant with the BIE’s respective requirements.’ The recommendations followed the committee’s processing of the applications in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 14, 2018. A new NGO was set up in Pervouralsk on ChelPipe Group’s initiative, the Group’s press service reports. ‘This volunteer organization will deal with the city’s environmental problems and will try to attract the public’s attention to environmental protection issues. Fifty alumni of and students on the Group’s Future of White-Coated Metallurgy Corporate Training Program became the organization’s first members,’ the press service says. Activists are going to coordinate waste recycling and sorting events and urban improvement projects. A special emphasis will be

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, June 14, 2018. The number of brick-making plants and reinforced concrete goods manufacturers dropped by 1.5 to 2 times in Sverdlovsk Region, the Executive Director of Sverdlovsk Region’s Union of Building Industry Enterprises Yuri Chumerin told UrBC. According to Chumerin, the plants proved unable to go through with tech upgrades are gradually closing down. ‘Only the most competitive companies can still keep afloat. These are the plants that invested in production upgrades in good time. They can now make good quality produce at minimal labor expense. The rest of the