UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 1, 2018. Rosset’s Federal Grid Company United Energy Systems (FGC UES) got 137 power substations and 21,600 km of electric mains in Ural Federal District ready for the fall/winter. According to FGC UES Western Siberia’s PR & Media Group, the issues relating to Ural Federal District’s preparedness for the coming cold season was discussed at the recent National HQ for Power Facilities Security’s meeting on the fall and winter of 2018/2019 in Surgut on September 27. The meeting was chaired by Russia’s Deputy Energy Minister Andrei Cherezov. FGC UES operates two

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 1, 2018. Russia’s leading pipe manufacturer and integrated oilfield solutions supplier ChelPipe Group reports a second installment of money has been received as part of the syndicated credit line opened to the company by a club of six major international banks in December 2017. According to the company’s press service, the second tranche ($24m and €10m, to be repaid within the next four years) got provided by ICBC Bank, Banca Intesa, Commerzbank (Eurasia), PAO Rosbank, and Agricultural Bank of China. Raiffeisenbank acts as the facility agent in the case. The

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, October 1, 2018. A refractory lining resistance record was set for the twin hearth furnace (THF) of Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) Electric Steel-Smelting Department this month, MMK Information & PR Department reports. The periclase-carbonaceous refractory lining remained three full months in THF No. 32 and withstood 1,265 melting rounds successfully. The last time a lining resistance record was broken was in 2005, when the inside lining held through 1,259 melting rounds. Being able to use the same lining for an increased number of melting operations means a

UrBC, Moscow, October 1, 2018. The Bank of Russia is adjusting its national payment system to comply with the international standards, so a new standard was adopted to regulate the financial messaging taking place when money gets transferred upon a customer’s initiative, the bank’s website indicates. ‘The standard provides a description of how the financial messaging system should operate in compliance with the international standard ISO 20022 and in compliance with the Russian national payment system law. The standard also covers all the basic interaction scripts for the actors involved in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 1, 2018. Ural Airlines offer a 50% discount to passengers with disabilities and a 20% discount to passengers aged 12-27 on its Zhukovsky-Tbilisi and Tbilisi-Zhukovsky flights on October 22, 2018-April 20, 2019. The discount is available to people in the 12-27 age group (20% off) and people with Group I disabilities and Group II and III lifelong disabilities (50% off). You can book your reduced-price tickets to Tbilisi between September 27, 2018 and April 20, 2019 at a booking office as long as you produce proof of eligibility. You can book a specific seat over the