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