UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 8, 2018. The number of people using MegaFon.Musyka (unlimited access to Yandex.Musyka, BOOM, and Zvuk) has gone up by seven times since the start of the year, MegaFon Ural’s press service reports. Typically, the service is more popular with men who use Android smartphones and women who use iOS-based ones. Among the options available are music apps, of which BOOM is currently the most frequent choice. A regular MegaFon.Musyka user tunes in to over two hundred songs/music pieces a day on average and spends nearly eight hours listening to them. Russian tunes are

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, October 8, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) now purchases all of its equipment repair-related services through the electronic platform B2B-Center. According to the company’s press service, the idea is to ensure auction transparency, automate the processing of potential contractors’ applications, and expand the plant’s customer base. ‘We had B2B-Center’s options range and functionality tested successfully by trying out more than a hundred purchases. There are specific technicalities involved in every type of equipment repair, so it’s important to choose the

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, October 8, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) is hosting a meeting with experts from the Competitive Purchases Leader Award’s community board for the first time this year, even though the plant has taken part in and won prizes at the all-Russian professional competition every year since the award got set up six years ago, MMK’s Information & PR Department reports. ‘The independent experts used to arrive at their decisions in absentia when the award was first established in 2012. This year, MMK’s management suggested that the experts on the community board

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 8, 2018. Ural Airlines are introducing a new flight from Nizhnevartovsk, Russia to Ganja, Azerbaijan on October 30, 2018; the direct flights will be operated every Tuesday, the air carrier’s press service reports. Flight U6 2501: Departure (Nizhnevartovsk): 9:35 AM — Arrival (Ganja): 1:10 PM; Flight U6 2502: Departure (Ganja): 3:00 PM — Arrival (Nizhnevartovsk): 8:10 PM; Flight duration: four hours ten minutes. Prices start from RUR 12,236 (one way; one piece of luggage under 23 kg, one piece of cabin luggage under 5 kg, a hot meal, and all fees included). The

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 8, 2018. The converter shop at EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK) got launched fifty-five years ago this month. The shop has put out 140,000,000,000 kg of steel and 70,000,000,000 kg of steel ingots since, NTMK’s press service reports. The plant coordinated a number of festive events to celebrate the special date. A ‘jubilee' melting session took place at Converter 1; the melting process got supervised by Sverdlovsk Region’s Minister for Industry & Science Sergey Perestoronin, EVRAZ Vice President and Head of EVRAZ Holding