UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 3, 2018. MegaFon is now offering a TradeIn option at all of its retail outlets, meaning you can trade your old phone in for a new one. Customers can save up to RUB 40,000 on this deal, MegaFon Ural’s press service says. The offer holds for fifty-eight cities and towns in the Urals. MegaFon accepts more than 460 different Apple, Samsung, Sony, and LG makes. The estimated worth of your old device can be converted into a discount on either a new phone or various accessories, phone settings, or insurance. The new products can be bought on credit or through paying in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 3, 2018. Federal Grid Company United Energy Systems completed the primary upgrades of its 500-kilowatt Irtysh Power Substation, the key power source for the Tobolsk area, FGC UES Western Siberia’s press service reports. The company engineers replaced all the cross-connect appliances and installed the modern micro-processing protection and automation relays. This is meant to make the power supply to end users in Tyumen Region’s Tobolsk area — large oil and gas and petrochemical companies — even more reliable. The reconstruction is estimated to have required RUB

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 3, 2018. The project for a medical cluster in Yekaterinburg’s District Akademicheskiy is now the focus of both national and international potential investors, RSG-Akademicheskoye’s press service reports. The project was presented at a reputable professional platform within a medical investment forum on November 29. The forum was held at I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University Congress Center in Moscow. The event covered topics like new biotech developments, new clinics and unique technologies, and the use of public-private partnerships to finance

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 3, 2018. ProyekTY, a social skills school in Pervouralsk that was created at ChelPipe Group’s initiative, coordinated the final presentations of the school’s first alumni in the children and teen group, the company’s press service reports. The high school and college students presented twenty business ideas that all had an important social input.Four projects made it to the finals. Presenters in the young adult/adult group are going to defend their projects on December 17; the best proposals will be granted special funding. ProyekTY Social Skills School started

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 3, 2018. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development’s Digital Solutions Director Alexander Pateshman gave a talk at the 11th Saint Petersburg International Innovations Forum, the bank’s press service reports. Pateshman presented his report at the forum session on finance technologies and the sector’s leading banks and their managers. The report dwelled on the current state of affairs and the global trends within the online banking industry. Pateshman also spoke about the UBRD’s successful experience with the development and launch of an up-to-date mobile