UrBC, Magnitogorsk, July 4, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) won the 15th Mining & Metallurgical Industry CSR Contest, the plant’s Information & PR Department reports. 61 mining and metallurgical enterprises competed in the contest; this is the second year in a row that MMK wins in Environmental Protection & Resource Saving. ‘MMK invested more than RUR 4bn in environmental projects last year. The company implemented several large-scale ones: the sintering plant’s sulphur-trapping units got reconstructed; the gas-filtering facility got upgraded at the electric

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 4, 2018. 132 students who have successfully completed ChelPipe Group’s Future of White-Coated Metallurgy Corporate Training Program received their vocational school-leaving certificates today; seven students graduated with honors, the company press service reports. The program’s most promising alumni are already employed with ChelPipe Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ). Vassily Kozyritsky and Andrei Mihailov won the 5th WorldSkills Russia’s local rounds in Mechatronics; Evgeny Aleksandrov and Maxim Melnikov won the 3d WorldSkills Hi Tech’s nationwide round;

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 4, 2018. Volunteers from the NGO Gorod Pervykh are now working to reconstruct one of Pervouralsk’s architectural landmarks, a rotunda located between Gagarin St, Chkalov St, Volodarsky St, and Trubnikov St, ChelPipe Group’s press service reports. First, forty volunteers removed all the grass that has grown on the structure and cleaned up the site. Together with employees of ChelPipe Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ), they will soon start putting the surrounding trees into shape and removing all dead shrubs. Once this has been finished, the rotunda itself will

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 4, 2018. Sverdlovsk Region division of Rospotrebnadzor (the state consumer rights watchdog) looked into 227 websites of local hotels and carried out 284 unscheduled inspections to determine seventeen cases of hotels overcharging their guests during the World Football Championship 2018 days, the division’s press service reports. Now the Russian Government set an upper limit on accommodation prices for all the Russian cities hosting the World Cup games. Following the checks, three and six legal entities had to face administrative liability, with charges based on

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 4, 2018. The agreement on the construction of a medical cluster in Yekaterinburg’s District Akademicheskiy was signed on July 3, 2018, RSG-Akademicheskoye’s press service reports. The agreement was signed by all the key participants in the unique project, including RSG-Akademicheskoye’s Director-General Viktor Krivosheyin, Rector of Ural State Medical Academy Olga Kovtun, acting head of Maternity & Neonatology Research Institute Galina Malgina, and Executive Director of the non-profit Ural Biomedical Cluster Vladimir Vlasov. Additionally, heads of Sverdlovsk