UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 6, 2018. The 5th International High-Rise Construction 100+ Forum Russia opened in Yekaterinburg on December 5, 2018. This year, the focus is on BIM technologies and digital construction. The forum takes place at Yekaterinburg EXPO on December 5-7. Around 10,000 people are expected to visit the forum and present their talks at the business and academic sessions. The event’s business agenda covers presentations by 350 invited speakers, 30 of whom come from outside Russia. Among the new topic to be covered at the forum are ways to do urban renovations while

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, December 6, 2018. Metallurg Magnitogorsk Ski Resort, which Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) put up next to Lake Bannoye, got launched fifteen years ago this month, MMK’s Information & PR Department reports. The place is a popular mountain ski resort with over 200,000 visitors a year; the resort won Urals’ Best Mountain Ski Resort, Russia’s Best Mountain Ski Resort, and Best Sports Facility for Tourism awards. Metallurg Magnitogorsk also hosts high-profile mountain skiing, snowboarding, and mountain bike competitions on a regular basis. The resort was designed

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 6, 2018. The Urals-based Russians have used MegaFon’s banking card over 2,000,000 times to pay for their shopping this year so far, the telecommunications provider’s press service reports. ‘The company’s big data reveal how shopping patterns fluctuate depending on the season, in what time of the year men tend to part with their money more eagerly, and which season sees the male and female shoppers’ clocks ticking in the same rhythm. For one, women generally spend more in the summer, with their average receipt amount and the overall amount of money spent on

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 6, 2018. Starting December 1, 2018, the interest SKB-Bank pays its customers on their reward checking accounts goes up to as much as 6% a year (for the debit card holders who get their salaries in these accounts and have opted for the Special+ packages), the bank’s press service reports. Customers who have signed up for Premium Card, Elite, Premium, and Premium+ packages will earn 7% interest in their checking accounts.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 6, 2018. Workers of EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Metallurgical Plant (EVRAZ NTMK) Rail Department completed their round of Good Deeds Relay Race this month: the department’s head handed the symbolic relay baton over to the Vehicle Department, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s PR division reports. The plant’s metallurgical workers supported Kindergarten 16 in Novoasbest, Sverdlovsk Region. They spent forty-five days getting the building ready for the winter: new window panes got installed, pipes and flooring got replaced, the heating and power supply infrastructure had to be