UrBC, Magnitogorsk, August 1, 2018. New ticket offices opened in a building next to Arena Metallurg in Magnitogorsk just in time for the new hockey season, reports Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works/MMK (the company that contributed greatly to the stadium (re)construction). Arena Metallurg hosted a junior world hockey championship this year. It was first decided to move the ticket offices to a separate building several years ago; the construction itself started last year and got fully finished this month, shortly before the start of the Continental Hockey League’s eleventh season. The

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 1, 2018. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) now offers mortgage options to customers based in seven more cities: Izhevsk, Nizhniy Novgorod, Samara, Togliatti, Saint Petersburg, Saratov, and Orenburg. According to the bank’s press service, these cities got selected based on their real estate/mortgage market situation and on the UBRD’s business potential there. As of June 1, 2018, the Central Bank stated that Leningrad Region, Nizhniy Novgorod Region, Samara Region, Orenburg Region, and Saratov Region were all among the country’s top thirty

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, August 1, 2018. MMK Group’s Metallurg Charity Foundation directed RUR 125.6m to support the South Urals-based children in the first half of 2018, MMK Information & PR Department reports. Metallurg has been coordinating its children’s charity project for seventeen years now, with primary focus on supporting children’s recreational/educational organizations, promoting bigger families, coordinating mother-and-child welfare programs, helping families with three and more children, and investing in state-run clinics and daytime/live-in schools for special-needs children in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 1, 2018. Ural Airlines are going to resume their flights from Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport to Karshi, Uzbekistan, on August 1, 2018. According to the air carrier’s press service, the flights will be operated every Wednesday and the flight from Karshi back to Moscow every Thursday. Starting October, the flights will also be available up to two times a week. ‘The scheduled flight to Karshi gives our customers better business and recreational travel planning options. Once in Moscow, they can also transit to connecting flights to other locations in Russia and abroad.

UrBC, Moscow, August 1, 2018. TagilBank’s clients will get a total of RUR 852m in deposit insurance money, the Deposit Insurance Agency reports. According to the agency’s data, some 5,600 people are likely to apply for their repayments. There are also 180 businessmen and women who had business accounts with the bank (total amount: RUR 32m). AO TagilBank got registered in Nizhniy Tagil on November 25, 1991. The bank’s license got annulled by the Bank of Russia on July 20, 2018. Based on the bank’s reports, it was Russia’s 409th largest bank in terms of asset volume.