UrBC, Magnitogorsk, October 3, 2018. The European blue-collar jobs championship EuroSkills 2018 is now over in Budapest. Alexander Arapov and Maxim Aksenov, who study at Magnitogorsk Polytechnic School, both won silver in Mechatronics, Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) press service reports. ‘The Russian national team proved truly triumphant at EuroSkills 2018. Our team was No.1 in the team competition, just like two years ago in Gothenburg, Sweden. In Budapest this time, however, we won both in terms of score and in terms of the number of medals. Russia’s national team got more gold

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, October 3, 2018. ChelPipe Group is going to take part in the 8th Saint Petersburg International Gas Forum on October 2-5, 2018. According to the company press service, the Group’s shareholder Andrei Komarov, Director-General of the company’s pipe-manufacturing division Boris Kovalenkov, CFO Denis Prikhodko, and Tech Director Kirill Nikitin will all be representing their company at the event. ChelPipe Group intends to present a stand featuring ping-pong tables made to look like large-diameter pipes. The company also plans an open-to-all ping-pong championship; visitors to

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, October 3, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) still remains one of Russia’s leading twenty privately owned businesses according to Forbes Russia, MMK’s press service reports. The magazine carried yet another rating of the country’s two hundred largest private companies recently. The rating only features the businesses where the state and foreign owners have a stake of 50% at the most. The preceding year’s revenue is the decisive criterion in the ranking. Put together, the corporations that made it to the top 200 made RUR 36 trillion in revenues last year. MMK

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 3, 2018. Yekaterinburg’s District Akademicheskiy got founded nine years ago on September 30. The celebrations involved a traditional show and a large-scale willow tree planting session that took place along the boulevard between Quarter 0 and Preobrazhensky Park (from Wilhelm de Gennin St to Anatoly Mekhrentsev St). According to akademekb.ru, the newly planted trees are specimens of crack willow (Sálix fragílis) 2 to 2.5 meters tall. The tree alley will get extended all the way to Chkalov St in the future. In addition to this, Preobrazhensky Park’s landscape now

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 3, 2018. Ural Airlines are introducing a new Sochi-Baku-Sochi flight starting from November 3, 2018, the air carrier’s press service reports. The direct flights will be operated on the modern and comfortable Airbus A320 aircraft every Saturday (departure (Sochi): 6:30 PM; arrival (Baku): 9:20 PM; departure (Baku): 10:20 PM; arrival (Sochi): 11:15 PM). Prices start from RUR 8,154 (one way, all fees included). Flights operated from Sochi Airport are an important part of the airline’s destination network. Every year, new domestic and international flights get