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