UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 13, 2018. ChelPipe Group’s Quantorium Children’s Tech Park opens at Innovative Culture Center at 18B Lenin St in Pervouralsk at 4 PM on December 13, 2018. The solemn opening ceremony will make part of the children’s tech park opening marathon in which over thirty new sites in twenty-five different parts of Russia are participating. ‘ChelPipe Quantorium was set up by ChelPipe Group in collaboration with the government-run New Education Format Development Foundation and with support from Sverdlovsk Region Government and Pervouralsk Council,’ the Group’s press

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 13, 2018. Four employees of ChelPipe Group’s Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant (PNTZ) received government awards based on the Russian President’s special decree. The solemn awarding ceremony took place at Plenipotentiary Representative of Russian Federation President in Ural Federal District’s office, the Group’s press service reports. PNTZ Managing Director Alexei Dronov received the Medal of the Order ‘For Merit to the Fatherland’ (Class II). Dronov came to work at PNTZ as a foreman’s assistant two decades ago. He proved highly professional and managerially talented

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 13, 2018. Beloyarskaya Nuclear Power Station’s Power-Generating Unit 4 first got connected to Sverdlovsk Region’s power grid three years ago this month (December 10, 2015). The unit has produced 13.7 billion kilowatt-hours of electric power since then, Beloyarskaya’s press service reports. The power-generating unit with its BN-800 reactor has operated safely and reliably throughout these three years. Beloyarskaya Nuclear Power Station’s Director Ivan Sidorov commented on the importance of their BN-800 unit for the Russian nuclear industry: ‘This power-generating

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 13, 2018. Ural Airlines will be operating direct Yekaterinburg-Kaliningrad-Yekaterinburg flight during the winter school break. According to the company’s press service, flight U6 403 (Yekaterinburg-Kaliningrad) will get operated on December 29, 2018 as well as on January 3 and January 8, 2019. Departure (Yekaterinburg): 8:40 AM. Flight U6 404 (Kaliningrad-Yekaterinburg) will be operated on the same dates. Departure (Kaliningrad): 10:25 AM. Prices start from RUB 8,690 for Yekaterinburg-Kaliningrad flights and from RUB 9,390 for Kaliningrad-Yekaterinburg ones.

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 13, 2018. Nikita Goryunov’s team (Head of Coal-Mining Section 5: Yaroslav Yerchenko) started working on Long-Face 50-20 at EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya Mine, Raspadskaya Coal Company’s press service reports. This is the first long-face in Bank 50 of the company’s Western Wing. The coal reserves are estimated at more than 1.9 million tons of GZh coal. The mining equipment had to get transferred on site from the already finished section in Eastern Wing, that is, across over 4.2 km. Despite the distance and the transportation issues, miners started working on the new