UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 17, 2018. ChelPipe Group is setting up ProyekTY Social Skills School for the local business community in Perovuralsk, Sverdlovsk Region, the company press service reports. The education project is part of the agreement ChelPipe Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ) signed with Pervouralsk Council and Sverdlovsk Region’s Business Support Foundation. ‘A course at our school offers quality business training for the students and provides them with the skills necessary to develop and launch projects to handle the town’s socially important issues. This is a

UrBC, Tobolsk, August 17, 2018. Every summer, Federal Grid Company United Energy Systems coordinates a summer jobs campaign for students, FGC UES Western Siberia’s PR & Media Group reports. ‘College students can get practical experience at our power grid facilities and on our construction sites; they can demonstrate their professional skills there and perhaps even find a steady job at our company. Young people from Surgut State University’s Laser Team spent a month working at FGC UES Western Siberia’s 500-kilowatt Tobol Power Substation in Tobolsk, for example,’ the company says. The

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, August 17, 2018. A dike dam is nearly complete at Magnitogorsk Water Reservoir; the dike is part of Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works’ (MMK) water recycling system upgrades. The new dike, which cost the company some RUR 660m, will reduce the plant’s environmental impact considerably, MMK Information, PR & Advertising Department reports. ‘The dike dam will help decrease the volume of waste water dumped into the reservoir by eleven times, from 52,000 m3/hour down to 4,500 m3/hour, whereas the overall mass of dumped water will go down by seven times. This will insure

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 17, 2018. 4,943,434 people flew with Ural Airlines in the seven months of 2018 (up 16% on a year earlier), the air carrier’s press service reports. 2,737,604 passengers used the airline’s domestic flights, 1,271,939 passengers went on international flights, and 933,891 passengers used the airline’s flights to and from the NIS member states. The passenger turnover rose by 17% and came to 11,818,954,000,000 passenger-kilometers. As for the month of July, the airline offered its services to 1,002,952 customers last month, including 562,652 passengers on domestic

UrBC, Moscow, August 17, 2018. Russians Believe the U.S. currency is going to keep strengthening against the Russian ruble in the short term, so that the USD/RUR exchange rate will exceed 1/71.56 by September 1, 2018, Superjob’s latest research findings indicate. 33% of Russians surveyed said they believed the ruble was still the best currency for their savings; 21% of respondents went for the dollar and 15% chose the euro as their preferred currency. 11% of those surveyed believe in making their savings in other currencies such as the renminbi, the pounds sterling, and the yen, or in