UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 30, 2018. Federal Grid Company United Energy Systems installed new transformer units at its 220-kilowatt Mirage Power Substation in Khanty-Mansiysky Autonomous Region, the company’s Western Siberia branch’s PR & Media Relations Department reports. ‘The new equipment is meant to improve the precision of our energy-spending data and to ensure a more reliable power supply to end users (including Rosneft’s member enterprises). 27 new gas-insulated transformer units have been installed at the station all in all,’ the department says. Additionally, a new battery and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 30, 2018. EVRAZ Holding’s member enterprises Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK) and Kachkanar Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise (KGOK) coordinated a professional skills contest among their young executives and managers, with over 240 employees taking part. According to the holding’s press service, the competition started at the beginning of summer. The contestants had to get interviewed by an experts’ panel, prove that they can process both verbal and numerical data efficiently, cope with production challenges, and do some teamwork. The two

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 30, 2018. MasterCard owners who had their cards issued by the Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) can now enjoy the perks of Apple Pay, the bank’s press service reports. To start using Apple Pay, the cardholders need to add their credit/debit MasterCard to their Wallet App. Apple Pay is available on iPhone SE, iPhone 6, and all the later versions, as well as on Apple Watch. Apple Pay meets all the current financial security and privacy/confidentiality requirements. Whatever card type gets added to the Apple Pay system, no card number gets stored

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, August 30, 2018. Kuzbass’s largest energy facility, Zapadno-Sibirskaya Power Station was founded exactly fifty-five years ago this month. The station is in charge of providing power supply to EVRAZ Holding’s West Siberian Integrated Metallurgical Works’ production site and heating supply to residents of Novokuznetsk’s Zavodskoy and Novoilyinsky Quarters, EVRAZ’s press service reports. The station has put out over 142bn kilowatt-hours worth of energy (five times more than the entire Kemerovo Region needs in a year) and more than 140m gigacalories of heat (enough to keep