UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 21, 2018. An additional building for Kindergarten 119 opened with a solemn ceremony in Yekaterinburg’s District Akademicheskiy today. The new kindergarten extension will invite in more than three hundred children aged three to five as soon as January 9. The opening ceremony was attended by Vice Mayor of Yekaterinburg for Social Policy Dmitri Baranov, Head of Yekaterinburg Council’s Education Department Ekaterina Sibirtseva, Deputy Head of District Leninsky Council for Social Issues Elena Beruashvili, and a number of Yekaterinburg Duma deputies. According to Head

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 21, 2018. EVRAZ Holding allocated more than RUB 1 million for the new medical equipment in Kachkanar’s and Nizhniy Tagil’s clinics, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s PR Department reports. Kachkanar Central Hospital now has two new semiautomatic analyzers, special-purpose sample cups, a set of chemical reagents, and supplies and appliances for lab blood testing. ‘The biochemistry analyzer has 99 different programs and can process 15 blood samples at a time. It only takes three minutes to get the test results ready. The hematology analyzer makes it possible to test a blood

UrBC, Magnitogorsk, December 21, 2018. Magnitogorsk Iron & Steel Works (MMK) member enterprise MRK won a prestigious Chelyabinsk Region award for its long-standing corporate social responsibility efforts. According to MMK’s Information, PR & Advertising Department, the state-run program on improving working conditions and job safety in Chelyabinsk Region in 2017-2020 got adopted last year, which was when the local labor and employment agency set up the Best Socially Responsible Employer of The Year Contest in Chelyabinsk Region. Under the terms of the contest, any organization or

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 21, 2018. Ural Federal District division of Rosprirodnadzor (the national environmental watchdog) is going to investigate the activity of Ural Mining & Metallurgical Company’s asset Svyatogor at Shemursky and Novo-Shemursky Deposits next year. ‘Rosprirodnadzor intends to carry out a number of additional checks regarding Svyatogor, take water samples at Shemursky and Novo-Shemursky Deposits, and inspect the sources of pollution there,’ the division informed UrBC. Earlier on, Rosprirodnadzor officers did a verification check of the conservation zones and water

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 21, 2018. Sverdlovsk Region’s coal and furnace oils reserves amounted to 1,155,400,000 kg and 171,400,000 kg, respectively, in early December. This was, respectively, 1.7 times and 5% less than one year earlier (in December 2017). According to Sverdlovskstat, the coal reserves available as of December 1, 2018 will be enough to keep local infrastructure facilities operating for twenty-eight days; the furnace oil stock is enough to keep them running for 962 days. The coal and furnace oil reserves of companies operating in the electric power, natural gas, and steam