UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 3, 2018. EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK) helps make the city ponds and water reservoirs cleaner by planting exotic flora there that eats both organic and nonorganic stuffs, the company press service reports. The plant’s environmental experts planted water hyacinth (Eichhornia) and water lettuce (Pistia stratiotes) into a pond connected to the Vyazovka River and some single-cell green algae (Chlorella) in Nizhniy Tagil Pond and Lenevskoye Reservoir. The planting campaign is a monthly event; Vyazovka River Pond gets some 650 root

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 3, 2018. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) cancelled the commission on its 120-day-grace-period credit card on July 2, 2018, the bank’s press service reports. You can apply for your free card through September 1, 2018; the offer holds for Yekaterinburg and Sverdlovsk Region, Chelyabinsk Region, Kirov Region, and Bashkortostan. As for the other constituencies where the UBRD operates, the offer holds between June 18 and August 18, 2018; this applies to Perm Territory, Moscow, Voronezh Region, Saratov Region, Orenburg Region, Belgorod Region,

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, July 3, 2018. Equipment for the new steam turbine got delivered to Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Central Power Station; the new turbine is meant to replace its older counterpart and to ensure a boost in the station’s energy efficiency. The assembly and startup will begin in the very near future, the company press service reports. The turbine was made at Ural Turbine Plant and comes with the latest automated control system to ensure best-mode performance and energy savings. For one, the unit needs less heat to produce one kilowatt of electric power, which means

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 3, 2018. The average offers for long-term rentals in Yekaterinburg grew 30% more expensive between May and June (the figures went from RUR 18,500 up to RUR 24,100 per apartment on average), the online estate service N1.RU reports. Rental prices went up most noticeably in VIZ, Parkovy, and the centrally located bits, where the monthly rent rose by 30% on average. The rental market supply increased dramatically in VIZ, Avtovokzal, and the central locations. Also, the supply of the more expensive two-bedroom apartments rose by 7.5% all over the city. The number of

UrBC, Moscow, July 3, 2018. Russia’s Ministry of Emergencies extended its inspections of shopping malls through July 30, 2018, RIA Novosti reports. According to the ministry, every one in six malls in the country fails to comply with the regulations for the performance of automated fire alarms and firefighting systems. The ministry first started checking the shopping malls all over the country after a major fire outbreak in Zimnyaya Vishnya Mall in Kemerovo, when sixty-four people (forty-one of them children) got killed. By early May, the inspections resulted in nearly a third of all malls