UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 14, 2018. ChelPipe Group launched Quantorium Children’s Tech Park at Innovative Culture Center in Pervouralsk this week, the Group’s press service reports. The solemn opening ceremony made part of the All-Russian Children’s Tech Park Opening Marathon coordinated by New Education Format Development Foundation and Russia’s Education Ministry. ChelPipe Quantorium was set up by ChelPipe Group and Sverdlovsk Region Government as a public-private partnership. The 550-square-meter park comprises a number of quantum units (multi-aspect tech creativity locations) fitted

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 14, 2018. The Ural Bank for Reconstruction & Development (UBRD) now offers even better terms on its special-offer Growing Interest Deposit, the bank’s press service reports. ‘We now offer a greater annual interest rate on Growing Interest Deposit. The interest comes to 7.5% between the 1st and the 180th day of the deposit period and to 8.5% between the 181st and the 200th day. What is more, the offer is now open to everyone and is available both online at any of the bank’s branches,’ the press service says. ‘Better deposit terms are seen as a way of making

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 14, 2018. Koltsovo Airport Customs (Yekaterinburg) had to process 70 million shipments this year so far, which made Yekaterinburg the country’s No.2 in the national shipment-acceptance sector (No 1. is Moscow), head of V.A. Sorokin Koltsovo Customs Anatoly Timoshenkov said at a press conference. According to Timoshenkov, 90% of all the consignments are goods locals order online: clothing, footwear, gifts, gadget accessories, and various spare parts. As the number of shipments to Yekaterinburg keeps rising, so does the number of freight forwarding-related

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, December 14, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) was recently featured in the WWF Russia rating as one of the country’s best companies, MMK Information & PR Department reports. The rating gets coordinated by the World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF) and the Russian representation of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP); this year’s one got completed by the National Rating Agency based on the companies’ publicly available data such as annual reports, presentations, media footprint, and company websites. The final rating was based on three crucial criteria: a

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 14, 2018. Ural Airlines are introducing a new Zhukovsky-Prague flight starting December 26, 2018, the air carrier’s press service reports. ‘Flight U6 751/752 will get operated on Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, and Sundays. The departure and arrival times are very convenient: you leave Zhukovsky at 6:30 AM and arrive in Prague as early as 7:30 AM so that there’s a whole day ahead to be spent walking around. The flight is three hours long. You then leave Prague at 8:30 AM and get to Zhukovsky two hours and forty-five minutes later,’ the press service says. A