UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 24, 2018. A passenger flying with Ural Airlines proved the 6,000,000th customer of Yekaterinburg’s Koltsovo Airport. Anastasia Shamshurina was flying from Yekaterinburg to Mineralnye Vody (flight U6 305), the air carrier’s press service reports. The solemn awarding ceremony took place at Koltsovo International Airport on December 21. Upon reaching Terminal A, Ms Shamshurina was greeted by the airport and the airline representatives and received a free flight voucher: this can be used to get to any location Ural Airlines fly to and to get access to Koltsovo

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 24, 2018. Russians living in the Mid-Urals still owed the government RUB 2.5 billion in unpaid property tax as of December 1, 2018, Sverdlovsk Region’s division of Russia’s Federal Tax Service reports. The deadline for property tax payments for the year 2017 was December 3, 2018. Any taxpayer who failed to pay on time turned into a debtor as soon as the next day, December 4, 2018, which means the overall debt amount will be growing on a daily basis due to fines, the division explains. It was reported earlier that over 5,000 locals with unpaid taxes wouldn’t be

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 24, 2018. EVRAZ Holding’s Raspadskaya Coal Company presented Miners’ Healthcare Center in Leninsk-Kuznetsky with a Mercedes-Benz critical care transport ambulance; the CCT unit is fitted with all the modern critical care diagnostics equipment and intensive care/first-aid appliances. ‘The new CCT unit has a defibrillator, an ECG unit, inhalation anaesthesia unit and an artificial lung ventilator. There’s an ultrasonic air filter and the patient and team furniture fixtures. Doctors can now examine their patients and carry out resuscitation procedures if necessary

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 24, 2018. Czech Airlines a.s. (ČSA) that used to operate Yekaterinburg-Prague flights are leaving Yekaterinburg’s Koltsovo Airport in January 2019, Head of the Russian Tourism Industry Union’s Ural division Mikhail Maltsev refers to the airport as officially declaring. ‘Czech Airlines will, in fact, no longer operate any flights to or from Yekaterinburg: Koltsovo Airport has been formally notified of the decision. This is extremely bad news for Yekaterinburg’s travel industry as well as for the city’s overall image. This can also have long-term consequences far

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 24, 2018. Ural Airlines are celebrating their new flight to Kazakhstan with a special offer on their Zhukovsky-Almaty-Zhukovsky flights. According to the air carrier’s press service, prices stat from RUB 8,305 (one way) and from RUB 17,271 (round trip) for Economy tickets. Prices are subject to change depending on the currency exchange rate. The flights will be available daily starting December 24, 2018. Starting January 15, the flights will get operated five times a week: on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays. Flight U6 2463 (Zhukovsky-Almaty),