UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 27, 2018. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) and VTB Strakhovaniye Zhizni are offering their customers Family Fund life insurance program. According to the bank’s press service, the program is meant to help a family build up on their savings and put aside enough of a safety cushion for a rainy day. Life insurance is a long-term investment mechanism that helps to save up for something big like your child’s education or retirement on the one hand and is an insurance product that grants you access to your reserves in case of an insured event.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 27, 2018. Miners at EVRAZ Holding’s Yerunakovskaya 8 Mine are now working on new Long-Face 48-6, with estimated 2,900,000,000 kg of valuable GZh coal reserves, the company press service reports. Long-Face 48-6 is located more than five hundred meters below the ground. The mine is fully fitted with highly productive stoping appliances supplied by Joy to ensure output of 250,000,000 to 300,000,000 kg of coal a month, depending on the mining and geological conditions. The Australian controlled drilling machine VLD 1000 was used to drain out excess gas within the mine

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, July 27, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) coordinated a fire safety drill and a contest for amateur firefighters at the plant, MMK’s Information & PR Department reports. The annual contest is part of the company’s overall civil defense, emergency prevention, and fire safety program for 2018. The goal is to make sure there are enough para-firefighters at the plant who are trained and prepared to act in case of fire and who are proactive in ensuring fire safety at the plant. 56 different teams from the plant’s production departments and MMK Group’s member

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 27, 2018. EVRAZ Holding funded a sports playground for preschoolers of Kindergarten 66 in Nizhniy Tagil. The project was the winner of EVRAZ grant contest for the city. According to the company press service, the playground cost RUR 400,000. The up-to-date playground came to replace an abandoned swimming pool that hadn’t been used for forty years and was actually a hazard to the children’s safety. All the old reinforced concrete and metal structures were removed from the site (total area: 200 m2) and replaced with a fresh layer of concrete, rubber coating,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, July 27, 2018. Summer Trip Festival will be held in Yekaterinburg’s District Akademicheskiy on August 18, RSG-Akademicheskoye’s press service reports. ‘You can enjoy the summer warmth and recreational mood in one of Yekaterinburg’s most promising and highly developed districts. The center of Akademicheskiy will turn into a summer sea resort with sun beds, golden sandy beaches, and beach umbrellas. Several popular local bands as well as the show headliners Zveri and Svetlana Loboda will perform for you on the big stage,’ the press service says. This year’s festival is