UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 16, 2018. EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK) launched its fifth rail wheel processing line, the holding’s press service reports. EVRAZ Vice President and head of the holding’s Ural branch Denis Novozhenov, EVRAZ NTMK and EVRAZ KGOK Managing Director Alexei Kushnarev, interim Mayor of Nizhniy Tagil Vladislav Pinayev, workers from the plant’s Wheel Band Department, NTMK trade union representatives and contractors all attended the solemn launching ceremony. ‘The line is expected to reach its projected capacity in the very near future.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 16, 2018. A321 coded VQ-BGY got added to Ural Airlines’ fleet of vehicles recently, the air carrier’s press service reports. Just like all the earlier aircraft, the plane got purchased on operational leasing terms. There are 220 Economy seats available. Ural Airlines now operate 46 planes altogether (15 A321 ones, 24 A320 ones, and 7 A319 ones). ‘This Airbus A321 arrived in Yekaterinburg from the Netherlands. The plane went on its maiden flight today, taking our passengers from Yekaterinburg to Anapa,’ the company press service says. Ural Airlines embarked on their

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 16, 2018. A new air separation unit got launched at Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Plant (MMK) Oxygen Converter Department’s Station 5. The new unit costs RUR 4.2bn, MMK Information, PR & Advertising Department reports. The unit’s capacity is estimated at 35,000 m3 of oxygen, 30,000 m3 of nitrogen, and around 1,000 m3 of argon per hour. ‘We needed to expand our air separation facilities as the plant developed. The new unit will fully meet MMK’s demand for air separation products and, importantly, it will release these products directly under pressure, which means

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 16, 2018. 3,940,472 people flew with Ural Airlines in January through June 2018, which exceeded the figures for one year previously by 19%, the air carrier’s press service reports. Moscow-Simferopol, Yekaterinburg-Moscow, Moscow-Kaliningrad, Moscow-Sochi, and Moscow-Barcelona proved the most popular destinations in May and June. Last month, Ural Airlines also operated quite a few flights to take football supporters from Peru, Uruguay, Egypt, Australia, Poland, Germany, Colombia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, France, and Spain to World Football Championship games locations in

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, July 16, 2018. A three-entrance apartment building got recently commissioned in Magnitogorsk; the apartments will be handed over to MMK Group’s employees as part of the metallurgical plant’s long-term Affordable Housing Program, the company press service reports. ‘The building, commissioned on the eve of Metallurgist’s Day, is the first one in the series of five apartment buildings in Klyuch Complex,’ the press service says. The new, four-story, three-entrance apartment building at 44/5 Trud St (total area: 3,096.3 m2) comprises fifty-six apartments: sixteen studios (36.17