UrBC, Magnitogorsk, October 18, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) now offers guided tours of the premises to the general public, with a few routes to choose from, the company press service reports. MMK has been hosting guided tours for visitors for a while now: over 4,000 people came to see the plant last year alone. Now there are special options for the younger visitors as well. Taming the Fire is a guided tour of Russia’s largest blast furnace department and the unique Mill 5000 that makes goods for large-diameter pipe manufacturers as well as for ship- and bridge-building

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, October 18, 2018. M.I. Glinka Chelyabinsk State Opera & Ballet Theater’s Children’s Singing School is going to stage an opera at the initiative of and with financial support from ChelPipe Group’s shareholders Andrei Komarov and Alexander Fedorov, the Group’s press service reports. The Cat's House by A.P. Kulagin/S.Ya. Marshak is a special treat for visitors to ChelPipe Group’s 16th Snezhnost Charity Festival in December 2018. All the parts will be performed by the children’s school’s students. The young performers are now rehearsing and going to choreography,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 18, 2018. Federal Grid Company United Energy Systems bought a new, unique loading crane for its fleet of vehicles in Russia’s Polar North, FGC UES Western Siberia’s PR & Media Group reports. ‘Vityaz, the new special-purpose crane (freight capacity: 25,000 kg; boom length: 27 m), is unique to Russia’s electric power sector. The all-terrain crane will be used to repair electric mains in the Polar North territories, including the woods, the marshes, and the deep snow spots. Prior to this purchase, repairs used to require resorting to a helicopter or building a

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, October 18, 2018. Ural Airlines are offering their customers state-subsidized, reduced-price flights to and from Kaliningrad and cities in Russia’s Far East, the air carrier’s press service reports. The offer holds for the following flights: Moscow-Kaliningrad/Kaliningrad-Moscow (prices start from RUR 1,700) Saint Petersburg-Kaliningrad/Kaliningrad-Saint Petersburg (RUR 1,700) Chita-Yekaterinburg/Yekaterinburg-Chita (RUR 5,000) Chita-Moscow/Moscow-Chita (RUR 6,200) Blagoveshchensk-Moscow/Moscow-Blagoveshchensk (RUR 6,400) Blagoveshchensk-Saint Petersburg/Saint

UrBC, Chelyabinsk, October 18, 2018. Governor of Chelyabinsk Region Boris Dubrovsky ruled that six local towns should be given subsidies to work on reclamation of their respective landfills, Southern Urals Government’s Press Service & Information Department reports. The money will get allocated to Ozersk, Troitsk, Zlatoust, Verkhniy Ufaley, and Districts Kartalinsky and Argayashsky. There are currently 26 landfills located within urban living quarters in the Southern Urals all in all. ‘Russian President Vladimir Putin called for the development a master-planned waste disposal/recycling